The matter sedimentology forms part of the basic knowledges in Marine Geology needed to obtain a suitable understanding of the half marine. Their outlines indicate that it treats of the study of the marine sediments and of their processes of formation, erosion, transport and sedimentation.
It contributes knowledges on the methods, technicians of study and recognition of the distinct types of sediments and sedimentary rocks. These are the key for the analysis of facies and of sequences and the paleoenvironmental interpretation (ie paleoclimate), as well as interpret the register in the prospection of natural resources.
Comprise the importance of the marine sediments and his relation with the physical processes, chemists, biological and hydrodynamic own of this half, is key to interpret the answer of the half to the action of usual dynamic processes, eventual or been due to the human intervention.
Their study will contribute knowledges on the processes, evolution and predictable tendencies of the marine environment in front of the changes, natural or antrophic, through the knowledge of the sedimentary record.
In a wider sense, their multidisciplinary character contributes applicable knowledges for example to the management and interpretation of natural spaces, studies of coastal pollution, etc. This subject constitutes the base and/or enters to the basic foundations for the knowledge of the marine and coastalsedimentary environments that give in the following semester, as well as the Geological Oceanography I and II of the following course. These basic knowledges here purchased will be expanded and applied in the optative matter Analysis of Basins, that the students can choose in the following course.
