Sedimentology 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.

Fieldtrop to present day subtidal sediments, Trucial Coast, Abu Dhabi

Arid Coastlines, Abu Dhabi

Field seminar to examine the modern day arid carbonate coastline in Abu Dhabi. Course has previously been run for the AAPG.

North Oman

Field seminar to examine outcrops of Permian to Cretaceous carbonates representing analogues to producing Middle East Fields

Central Oman

Field seminar to examine outcrops of Permian to Cretaceous carbonates representing analogues to producing Middle East Fields

Sardinia

Field seminar to Sardinia examining Upper Jurassic passive margin carbonates as analogues for West Africa Atlantic margin play fairways

Loughor Estuary

Examine modern day depositional environments in a tidal estuary and wave dominated shoreline, to develop analogues for subsurface reservoirs

Large scale cross beds within Middle Jurassic oolites Cotswolds

Cotswold Carbonates

Field seminar to examine facies variation and sequence stratigraphy in Jurassic (Aalenian) oolitic carbonates

Worcester Graben

Learn how to correlate using sequence stratigraphy in an oolitic Jurassic carbonate sequence with limited biostratigraphic markers.

Isle of Portland viewed from Durdle Door, Dorset

Wessex Basin

Examine the elements of a working petroleum system in Permian to Cretaceous strata, including Purbeck lacustrine microbial carbonates

Western Ireland

Field seminar to examine excellent coastal exposures of seismic scale deltaic and turbidite basin fill sediment architecture.

Zechstein Evaporites

Field seminar to examine depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy of a mixed carbonate and evaporite systems of the Permian Zechstein Basin.

Winnats pass cutting through the Late Asbian carbonate platform margin, Carboniferous, Derbyshire

Derbyshire Carbonates

Examine an exhumed 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

Field Seminar to examine Carboniferous carbonates in a series of excellent coastal exposures.

Jurassic tidal sandstones near Elgol, with the Cuillin Mountains behind, Isle of Skye

Hebridean Basin

Field seminar to examine Mesozoic strata, age equivalent to North Sea Jurassic Hydrocarbon reservoirs

Tremp-Graus Basin

Field Seminar to examine a seismic scale piggy back basin fill succession exposed in the Spanish Pyrenees

carbonate diagenesis microstalactitic vadose cements in ooid grainstone

Carbonate Petrography

Training course covering carbonate components, microfacies and palaeoenvironment, carbonate diagenesis and petrographic techniques.

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