Training Courses

Training Courses

Oolithica offers a range of ready made training courses comprising either field or office based seminars.  Please click on the links below for more details.

These courses are run either on a single company basis, or as multi-client seminars dependent upon demand.

We are also happy to create bespoke training courses to match our clients requirements.

Geology fieldtrip to examine present day subtidal sediments, Trucial Coast, Abu Dhabi

Arid Coastlines

Modern day arid carbonate coastline in Abu Dhabi
Triassic in Wadi Ghabbas

North Oman

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northeast Arabian Platform-Margin
Lower Cretaceous, Wadi Nakhr, Oman

Central Oman

Permian to Cretaceous carbonates representing analogues to producing Middle East Fields
Kimmeridgian shoal facies at Cala Goloritze Sardinia

Sardinia

Upper Jurassic passive margin carbonates analogues for West Africa Atlantic margin plays
Loughor Bay satellite image

Loughor Estuary

Examine modern day depositional environments in a tidal estuary and wave dominated shoreline
Aalenian Inferior Oolite clinoforms, Cleeve Hill

Cotswold Carbonates

Examine facies variation and sequence stratigraphy in Jurassic (Aalenian) oolitic carbonates
Leckhampton Hill Aalenian Inferior Oolite megadunes, Dead Mans Quarry

Worcester Graben

How to correlate using sequence stratigraphy in an oolitic Jurassic carbonate sequence
Isle of Portland viewed from Durdle Door, Dorset

Wessex Basin

Petroleum system from the Permian to Cretaceous
Seismic scale basin slope to deltaic sequence, with turbidite channel cut and fill at the base, Cliffs of Moher, Western Ireland

Western Ireland

Seismic scale deltaic and turbidite basin fill sediment architecture
Zechstein dedolomite, Seaham Harbour

Zechstein Evaporites

Mixed carbonate and evaporite systems of the Permian Zechstein Basin
Derbyshire Carboniferous Carbonate Platform Margin

Derbyshire Carboniferous

Carboniferous carbonate platform margin subjected to hydrothermal mineralisation and porosity enhancement.
Namurian Middle Shale overlain by Upper Sanstone Group, Telpyn Point, S Wales

Carboniferous S Wales

Carboniferous change from passive margin to compressional foreland basin
Middle Jurassic tidal sandstones near Elgol, with the Cuillin Mountains behind, Isle of Skye

Hebridean Basins

Mesozoic strata age equivalent to North Sea reservoirs
Cretaceous outcropping in Terradets Gorge, Tremp-Graus Basin

Tremp-Graus Basin

Seismic scale piggy back basin fill succession in the Pyrenees
Porous oolitic grainstone, Aalenian, Inferior Oolite

Carbonate Petrography

Overview of carbonate petrography and petrographic techniques

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