Applied Micropalaeontology - Palaeoenvironment - Palaeontology-Stratigraphy

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 Lecture  Applied Micropalaeontology - Palaeoenvironment
 Teaching Staff  George Iliopoulos, Professor
 Lesson Category  Optional 
 Semester  8 (H)
 Objectives An important objective of the course is to explore the existing relationships between organisms and their environment, both contemporary and from the past. Another goal is for the students to learn and become familiar with the main groups of microfossils (mainly the ones most widespread in stratigraphical research) as well as the way these are studied.
 Cource Contents
  • Microfossils - Marine environments - Paleoecology - microfossils and sedimentation - Methods of preparation and observation
  • Phylogeny -cladistics
  • Use of microfossils in biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and determining palaeoenvironments
  • foraminifera
  • ostracods
  • siliceous microfossils
  • Palynology
  • Small vertebrates
   Post Address
University of Patras, Department of Geology, Laboratory of Palaeontology-Stratigraphy, 26 504 Campus, Rio, Patras, Greece. Information iliopoulosg_at_upatras.gr