ECTS
5 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
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Organic Matter and Clays: Sedimentary Origin, Associated Resources, and Reservoirs
Level of Education
5 years of post-secondary education
ECTS
5 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
Organic matter (OM) accounts for only a small portion of sedimentation. Unlike other deposited particles, it can change rapidly during burial by interacting with the grains of the host rock and producing fluids (gases and liquids) that will be highly mobile. Because it is degraded by bacteria, its preservation depends on numerous factors, but above all on the fine grain size of the grains deposited at the same time. Thus, clays represent the most favorable environment for the preservation of OM, but their complex mineralogy makes them a unique material that will also undergo transformation during burial. The products of these interactions have naturally attracted interest in the mining and petroleum industries, since these processes are responsible for the formation of major coal deposits and the production of hydrocarbons. Recently, however, studies have increasingly focused on these two elements as tracers of sediment origin and, subsequently, as markers of burial, which is of major importance for understanding the filling of basins and their post-depositional evolution.
Mineral Reservoirs
Level of Education
5 years of post-secondary education
ECTS
5 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
Mineral deposits, exploration techniques, geostatistics, mining economics. The course focuses primarily on presentations by industry professionals (mining and quarrying). Two days of fieldwork are dedicated to illustrating certain exploration methods, particularly through the study of uranium and gypsum mineralization.