Stratigraphy Course
This course equips you with hands-on tools to master stratigraphy, reading rock layers, fossils, and facies across fluvial to marine environments. Perfect for geology and geography professionals seeking to enhance correlation, field logging, and basin-scale interpretation skills. Develop confidence in sedimentary analysis through practical exercises and real-world applications.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain practical skills to confidently interpret sedimentary successions. Master reading facies from grain size, structures, and fossils. Apply sequence and biostratigraphic principles to build composite columns. Practice correlation, handle uncertainty with field and subsurface data, and plan efficient field campaigns for accurate stratigraphic interpretations.
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Develop skills
- Interpret sedimentary facies using grain size, structures, and flow indicators.
- Employ fossils to assess paleoenvironments like depth, salinity, and energy.
- Apply sequence and biostratigraphy for rapid correlation of regional stratigraphy.
- Construct composite stratigraphic columns integrating outcrops, facies, and sea-level changes.
- Design efficient field campaigns to log sections, sample effectively, and quantify uncertainty.
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