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Principles of Stratigraphy

Prof. Soumyajit Mukherjee · IIT Bombay

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About

Stratigraphy deals mainly with correlation of layered rocks. In this course, we will learn different principles of such correlation for marine and non-marine rocks in local to regional scales. The subject is of paramount importance in resource geoscience and has tremendous industrial applications besides everlasting relevance in academics. Through this subject, we will also learn the Earth’s evolutionary history. Several Indian examples will be provided during the presentation.

Intended audience: B.Sc. students in (applied) geologyM.Sc. students in (applied) geophysics. They learn different geoscience disciplines first time in their M.Sc. course

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction to the Principles of Stratigraphy YouTube
  2. Lecture 2: Unconformities – I YouTube
  3. Lecture 3: Unconformities – II YouTube
  4. Lecture 4: Basement-cover relationship YouTube
  5. Lecture 5: Primary Sedimentary Structures YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture 6: Preparation of Lithologs YouTube
  2. Lecture 7: Thickness Issue YouTube
  3. Lecture 8: Drill cores and Wellbores YouTube
  4. Lecture 9: How planes appear in drill cores - II YouTube
  5. Lecture 10: Applications of image logs, geological time scale – I YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture 11: Geological Time Scale II YouTube
  2. Lecture 12: Geological Time Scale III YouTube
  3. Lecture 13: Geological Time Scale IV YouTube
  4. Lecture 14: Geological Time Scale V YouTube
  5. Lecture 15: Lithostratigraphy I YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture 16: Lithostratigraphy II YouTube
  2. Lecture 17: Lithostratigraphy III YouTube
  3. Lecture 18: Lithostratigraphy IV YouTube
  4. Lecture 19: Lithostratigraphy - V and different sedimentary environments YouTube
  5. Lecture 20: Stratigraphic Issues YouTube

Week 5

  1. Lecture 21: Heavy mineral stratigraphy & layered deposits YouTube
  2. Lecture 22: Glacial stratigraphy & Volcanic stratigraphy - I YouTube
  3. Lecture 23: Volcanic stratigraphy - II YouTube
  4. Lecture 24: Rose Diagram YouTube
  5. Lecture 25: Bar diagrams, tadpole plots & polar tangent plots. YouTube

Week 6

  1. Lecture 26: Volcanic stratigraphy – III & Historical development of stratigraphy YouTube
  2. Lecture 27: Sedimentary successions in different environments & Hydrostratigraphy YouTube
  3. Lecture 28: Stratigraphy of rift basins and collisional terrains YouTube
  4. Lecture 29: Biostratigraphy – I YouTube
  5. Lecture 30: Biostratigraphy – II YouTube

Week 7

  1. Lecture 31: Biostratigraphy – III (biozones) YouTube
  2. Lecture 32: Biostratigraphy – IV (graphic & statistical correlations) YouTube
  3. Lecture 33: Graph Theory - I YouTube
  4. Lecture 34: Graph Theory – II YouTube
  5. Lecture 35: Graph Theory – III YouTube

Week 8

  1. Lecture 36: Biostratigraphy V (Elementary use of graph theory) YouTube
  2. Lecture 37: Biostratigraphy VI (Use of graph theory) YouTube
  3. Lecture 38: “Matching” in the context of biostratigraphic correlation YouTube
  4. Lecture 39: Cladistics – I YouTube
  5. Lecture 40: Cladistics - II (How stratigraphy matters) YouTube

Week 9

  1. Lecture 41: Biostratigraphy VII YouTube
  2. Lecture 42: Magnetostratigraphy I YouTube
  3. Lecture 43: Magnetostratigraphy II YouTube
  4. Lecture 44: Magnetostratigraphy III YouTube
  5. Lecture 45: Magnetostratigraphy IV & Chemostratigraphy I YouTube

Week 10

  1. Lecture 46: Chemostratigraphy II YouTube
  2. Lecture 47: Chemostratigraphy III YouTube
  3. Lecture 48: Chemostratigraphy IV YouTube
  4. Lecture 49: Chemostratigraphy V YouTube
  5. Lecture 50: Sequence Stratigraphy I YouTube

Week 11

  1. Lecture 51: Sequence Stratigraphy II YouTube
  2. Lecture 52: Sequence Stratigraphy III YouTube
  3. Lecture 53: Sequence Stratigraphy IV YouTube
  4. Lecture 54: Stratigraphy based on seismic images & well logs YouTube
  5. Lecture 55: Sequence Stratigraphy V YouTube

Week 12

  1. Lecture 56: Sequence Stratigraphy – VI, coastal & marine deposits YouTube
  2. Lecture 57: Sequence Stratigraphy – VII YouTube
  3. Lecture 58: Sequence Stratigraphy – VIII YouTube
  4. Lecture 59: Chronostratigraphy - I YouTube
  5. Lecture 60: Chronostratigraphy - II YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Bombay
Department
Civil Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Soumyajit Mukherjee
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
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