Paleoecology and biostratigraphy

  • ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

The aim of this course is to acquire, reinforce and synthesize notions and knowledge in evolutionary paleontology, sedimentology and paleoecology, and apply them to the fossil world. Taken together, these notions provide the keys to infer the stratigraphic context and past environments in which extinct organisms lived.

Read more

Necessary prerequisites

not necessary, but preferable: Earth Sciences discovery course (S5, LMD5 avatar of HLST508)

Read more

Knowledge control

test

coefficient

No. of hours

Nb Sessions

Organization (FDS or local)

Written

 

 

 

 

Continuous control

1

 

 

 

TP

 

 

 

 

Oral

 

 

 

 

Read more

Further information

Additional information :

  • Synthetic description of the concepts covered in CM :

Introduction to paleontological techniques and methods; principles, methods and advantages of stratigraphy; dating methods in relation to stratigraphy (biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy); stratigraphic correlations. 

Paleoenvironments: characterization of present-day environments (marine, continental) and their fossil analogues; paleoenvironmental reconstruction (Proterozoic-Pleistocene) using fossils, sediments and sedimentary structures.

  • Summary description of TD sessions and number of hours associated with each session

TD1: Drawing techniques for outcrops and fossils

TD2: using geological maps in paleontology and field preparation

TD3 and 4: processing of data collected during the excursion, calculation of thicknesses, stratigraphic log...

 

  • Synthetic description of TP sessions and number of hours associated with each session

Taxa and marker assemblages in stratigraphy :

TP1: biostratigraphy - Paleozoic

TP2: Biostratigraphy - Mesozoic

TP3: Biostratigraphy - Cenozoic

TP4: Marine paleoenvironments

TP5: Continental paleoenvironments

  • Description of the themes/manips covered during your field trip(s) and details of destinations/sites

Application of all the concepts covered in CM TD and TP, paleoenvironmental and faunal variations during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, around the Pic Saint-Loup.

Read more

Target skills

=> Mobilize the fundamental concepts and technologies of sedimentology and paleontology to address a problem in the field and/or analyze a research or presentation document;

=> Identify and select various specialized resources to document a subject;

=> Analyze and synthesize data for further processing 

=> Develop an argument with logic and critical thinking ;

=> Know how to carry out a project within a group.

Read more