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QUATERNARY GEOLOGY

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2018/2019
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Credits: 
4
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
40
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (24 hours), Exercise (16 hours)
Requirements: 

Basic knowledge of geomorphology, lithology and climate and paleoclimate.

Oral exam evaluated in 30/30.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The main aims of the course are the recognition, description and understanding of the quaternary deposits and their paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental meaning.

The course is composed by 4 modules:
1) The deposits: what are and how we can describe them: sedimentology and stratigraphy elements of loose deposits. Main structures and and analyses methods:Lithostratigraphic; allostratigraphic,magnetostratigraphic,biostratigrafic, tefrostratigrafic, cronostratigrafic, climatostratigrafic units. Mammals biochronology.
2) Dating methods applied to Quaternary: 14C; Thermoluminescence, other methods.
3) The Quaternary; Chronology and main climatic events. Glaciations and interglacials. Sea level changes.
4) The Holocene: Chronology and main climatic events. Glacial fluctuations and sea level changes.

Geologia del Quaternario
L'evoluzione geologica degli ambienti superficiali
Autore: Francesco Carraro
Dario Flaccovio Editore 408 pagine Prima Edizione febbraio 2012 ISBN 9788857901107
Quaternary Geology and the Environment
Jean Riser
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Publication Date: 2001 ISBN 13: 9781852333201

Lectures (20 hours) and field lessons (12 hours mandatory). In laboratory deposits analyses (4 hours mandatory).

The Professor is available for information asking an appointement through email: mauro.guglielmin@uninsubria.it

Professors

GUGLIELMIN MAURO