CODE: OG27
DURATION: 5 Days/10 Days
CERTIFICATIONS: CPD
This course is conducted at the United States Geological Survey Core Research Center (USGSCRC) in Lakewood, Colorado, USA – one of the largest laboratories in the world where core is collected and stored. Not only is there a large room where several hundred meters of core can be displayed at a time but there is also a classroom where lectures can be delivered. The course will run for 5-days and participants will get to log at least 300 meters of core on a cm-scale. We believe that one learns by doing and not watching and at the end of the course participants will be confident in their ability to describe and interpret siliciclastic core from common shallow and deep marine environments of deposition.
This course is available in the following formats:
Virtual
Classroom
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Course Outcomes
At the end of the course participants will have a deeper understanding of the following key attributes:
Ability to measure grain-size and sorting
Identification of common marine trace fossils
Building sequence stratigraphic framework
Documenting facies associations
Interpreting environments of deposition
Creating electrofacies
At the end of this course, you’ll understand:
ü Logging bioturbation index and identification of top 10 most common marine trace fossils
ü Core logging and interpretation of environments of deposition after completion of description
ü How to approach a core facility, equipment and instruments, photographing core, washing core, measuring grain-size and sorting and identification of lithology
ü Comparison of core with borehole image and gamma ray logs and correlation/mapping using electrofacies
ü Lectures on common river-wave and tide-influenced depositional environments in a shallow marine setting: Shorefaces, Deltas, Incised Valleys and Shelf-Sand Ridges
Geologists, Geophysicists, Petrophysicists, and Engineers who want to maximize their learning from well core and be able to evaluate core reports done by partners in joint ventures
Delivery Format: Classroom
Date: 03/03/2025
Location: Dubai
Delivery Format: Classroom
Date: 11/08/2025
Location: London
Delivery Format: Classroom
Date: 03/11/2025
Location: London
✓ Modern facilities
✓ Course materials and certificate
✓ Accredited international trainers
✓ Training materials and workbook
✓ Access to online resources
