Adrian Gilli: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2016
| Name | Herr Dr. Adrian Gilli |
| Adresse | Dep. Erdwissenschaften ETH Zürich, NO D 65 Sonneggstrasse 5 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 632 36 94 |
| adrian.gilli@erdw.ethz.ch | |
| URL | https://www.erdw.ethz.ch/personen/profil.html?persid=59013 |
| Departement | Erdwissenschaften |
| Beziehung | Dozent |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 651-4043-00L | Sedimentology II: Biological and Chemical Processes in Lacustrine and Marine Systems Prerequisite: Successful completion of the MSc-course "Sedimentology I" (651-4041-00L). | 3 KP | 2G | V. Picotti, A. Gilli | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The course will focus on biological amd chemical aspects of sedimentation in marine environments. Marine sedimentation will be traced from coast to deep-sea. The use of stable isotopes palaeoceanography will be discussed. Neritic, hemipelagic and pelagic sediments will be used as proxies for environmental change during times of major perturbations of climate and oceanography. | ||||
| Lernziel | -You will understand chemistry and biology of the marine carbonate system -You will be able to relate carbonate mineralogy with facies and environmental conditions -You will be familiar with cool-water and warm-water carbonates -You will see carbonate and organic-carbon rich sediments as part of the global carbon cycle -You will be able to recognize links between climate and marine carbonate systems (e.g. acidification of oceans and reef growth) -You will be able to use geological archives as source of information on global change -You will have an overview of marine sedimentation through time | ||||
| Inhalt | -carbonates,: chemistry, mineralogy, biology -carbonate sedimentation from the shelf to the deep sea -carbonate facies -cool-water and warm-water carbonates -organic-carbon and black shales -C-cycle, carbonates, Corg : CO2 sources and sink -Carbonates: their geochemical proxies for environmental change: stable isotopes, Mg/Ca, Sr -marine sediments thorugh geological time -carbonates and evaporites -lacustrine carbonates -economic aspects of limestone | ||||
| Skript | no script. scientific articles will be distributed during the course | ||||
| Literatur | We will read and critically discuss scientific articles relevant for "biological and chemical processes in marine and lacustrine systems" | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The grading of students is based on in-class exercises and end-semester examination. | ||||
| 651-4057-00L | Climate History and Palaeoclimatology | 3 KP | 2G | S. Bernasconi, B. Ausin Gonzalez, A. Fernandez Bremer, A. Gilli | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The course "Climate history and paleoclimatology gives an overview on climate through geological time and it provides insight into methods and tools used in paleoclimate research. | ||||
| Lernziel | The student will have an understanding of evolution of climate and its major forcing factors -orbital, atmosphere chemistry, tectonics- through geological time. He or she will understand interaction between life and climate and he or she will be familiar with the use of most common geochemical climate "proxies", he or she will be able to evaluate quality of marine and terrestrial sedimentary paleoclimate archives. The student will be able to estimate rates of changes in climate history and to recognize feedbacks between the biosphere and climate. | ||||
| Inhalt | Climate system and earth history - climate forcing factors and feedback mechanisms of the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. Geological time, stratigraphy, geological archives, climate archives, paleoclimate proxies Climate through geological time: "lessons from the past" Cretaceous greenhouse climate The Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) Cenozoic Cooling Onset and Intensification of Southern Hemisphere Glaciation Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Pliocene warmth Glacial and Interglacials Millennial-scale climate variability during glaciations The last deglaciation(s) The Younger Dryas Holocene climate - climate and societies | ||||
| 651-4117-00L | Sediment Analysis | 3 KP | 2G | M. G. Fellin, A. Gilli, V. Picotti | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Zweck, Brauchbarkeit und theoretischer Hintergrund von Methoden der Sedimentuntersuchung. | ||||
| Lernziel | Der Kurs bietet eine Reihe von grundlegenden Methoden der Sedimentuntersuchung an. Es ist auch möglich, diese Methoden an eigenem Material für die Master-Arbeit oder Dissertation anzuwenden. | ||||
| Inhalt | Färben von Dünnschliffen auf Feldspat und Karbonat, Lackabzüge von Karbonatgesteinen, Modalanalyse von Sandsteinen (gleiches Prinzip anwendbar für Mikrofazies von Karbonatgesteinen), Calcimetrie und organischer Kohlenstoff von pelitischen Gesteinen, Schwermineral-Analyse, "kalte" Kathodenlumineszenz von Karbonatgesteinen, einfache Separation von Tonmineralen, Exoskopie von Quarzkörnern. | ||||
| Skript | Ein Skript mit dem wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund der verschiedenen Methoden und den Anleitungen für das Labor wird zu Verfügung gestellt. | ||||
| Literatur | BOUMA. A.H. (1969): Methods for the study of sedimentary structures. Wiley-Interscience, 458 p. CARVER, R.E. (Ed.) (1971): Procedures in sedimentary petrology. Wiley-Interscience, 653 p. TUCKER, M. (Ed.) (1988): Techniques in sedimentology. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 394 p. MANGE, M. A. & MAURER, H. F. (1992): Heavy minerals in colour, Chapman & Hall, 147 p. and various journal papers | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Wünschenswert, aber nicht Bedingung ist, dass Studierende ihr eigenes Material (Master-Arbeit, PhD-Projekt) für einzelne Methoden der Sedimentuntersuchung mitbringen. | ||||