2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

SOEE3060 Advanced Sedimentology and its Applications

10 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: Prof Jeff Peakall
Email: j.peakall@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

Pre-requisite qualifications

Successful completion of level 2 BSc. Geology or equivalent.

Pre-requisites

SOEE2910

Palaeoenvironmental Analysis

This module is mutually exclusive with

SOEE5620M

Advanced Sedimentology

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module examines how complex sedimentary successions arise in response to a range of both intrinsic operating processes and to a range of external controls such as sea-level change, climate change, and tectonic basin development. Additionally, this module examines the nature of the carbon sink in the deep sea, and microplastic transport and sedimentation

Objectives

To present an integrated account of aspects of advanced sedimentology from sediment source to sediment sink, and critically examine recent and ongoing research into the dynamics of sedimentary environments, their recognition in the ancient record and their environmental application.

Learning outcomes
To be able to demonstrate an awareness of the principle intrinsic controls on sedimentation in a variety of sedimentary environment settings and to show how such environments respond to external controls such as changes in sea level, climate and tectonic setting.

Skills outcomes
Students registered on this module will acquire skills in sedimentary logging, sedimentary architectural analysis, relating complex 3D and 4D relationships in space and time, and distinguishing between intrinsic versus external controls on the sedimentary record.

Syllabus

This course will provide training in how to relate sedimentological evidence to regional and global external forcing. Additionally, it will demonstrate how sedimentological and stratigraphical principles can be applied to identify palaeoenvironments. The role of deep-sea systems in microplastic transport and deposition, and as carbon sinks, will also be covered. Development of geological skills relevant to the analysis of sedimentary sequences and their relative position within evolving sedimentary basins forms an integral part of this course.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Fieldwork	2	10.00	20.00
Lecture	14	1.00	14.00
Private study hours			66.00
Total Contact hours			34.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Students are expected to undertake approximately 3 hours of independent study and additional reading as an accompaniment to each lecture in the course.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress within the module will be monitored on the field course through discussions at the various localities. Further it will be assessed through marking of the fieldwork report and the essay at various stages through the module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay or Dissertation	Essay (2,500 words)	50.00
Report	Fieldwork report (2,500 words)	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 08/12/2023

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