Objective
The course aims to teach participants the skills and methodology required to review and log sedimentological core. The course will focus on methodology, observation and interpretation utilising select cores from the Surat Basin stratigraphy. Robust observations are critical to a successful and defendable interpretation of any stratigraphy and significant time will be spent emphasising this. Additionally, the course will explore the interpretation of facies and facies associations, erosional surfaces, stacking patterns, bedforms, ichnology, and ultimately the environment of deposition.
Content
The course will comprise short morning lectures introducing the principles of core logging on day one and facies and facies associations on day two, with substantive time each day spent undertaking practical group exercises with each group (3-4 participants) expected to undertake logging at suitable scales to capture the required degree of information for a successful interpretation, and, importantly, present that data and interpretation to their peers.
Who should attend
Geoscientists wishing to enhance their skills of sedimentological core observation and facies, facies associations and depositional environment interpretation. The course is also suited to graduates and other geo disciplines wanting a better understanding of the sedimentology utilised in upscaling and model development.