WORKING GROUP ON SEDIMENT GENERATION
Sedimentary Provenance Course
The 2026 Sediment Provenance Course will take place during the 7th, 8th and 9th of September at the Department of Earth Sciences (Campus 2) of the University Coimbra.
This provenance course receives contributions from researchers involved in the Short Course on Sedimentary Provenance Analysis, organized by the Geoscience Center of Göttingen (info on the last event in http://www.sediment.uni-goettingen.de/spa2025), and the Heavy Mineral School, organized by the University of Milano-Bicocca (info on the last event in https://hm-school.disat.unimib.it/hm-school). Since 2023, the courses offered in Göttingen and Milan are planned for every 2 years (odd years). Merged versions of these courses attached to the WGSG events generally take place in even years, such as this one.
This 3-day course will be focused on the most important methodologies used today in the investigation of sediment generation, including bulk geochemistry and mineralogy, petrography, varietal studies, detrital geochronology and thermochronology, image analysis and machine learning, and compositional data analysis.
Course Information
Fees include access to seminars and practical sessions, course documentation, as well as lunches and coffee breaks. Participation in the course requires registration in the 7th WGSG meeting.
Day 1
TOPICS
Sand Petrography and geochemistry
Eduardo Garzanti (U. Milano-Bicocca)
Mud Composition
Pedro Dinis (U. Coimbra)
Sampling, hidraulic sorting and HM composition
Eduardo Garzanti and Sérgio Andò (U. Milano-Bicocca)
Heavy Mineral Optical Analysis
Sergio Andò (U. Milano-Bicocca)
Day 2
Introduction to varietal studies in Sedimentary Provenance Analysis
Hilmar von Eynatten (U. Göttingen)
Geochemical discrimination of HM
Jan Schönig (U. Göttingen)
Detrital geochronology
Maximilian Dröllner (U. Göttingen)
Detrital thermochronology
István Dunkl (U. Göttingen)
Raman Spectroscopy and RISE microscopy Demo
Keno Lünsdorf (U. Göttingen) &
Inês Pereira (U. Coimbra)
Day 3
Provenance Analysis and CoDA basics
Gert Jan Weltje, KU Leuven
CoDA advanced applications
Gert Jan Weltje, KU Leuven
Statistics & programming in R
Pieter Vermeesch, UCL
Machine Learning
Pedro Costa (U. Coimbra)
Jan Schönig
István Dunkl
Maximilian Dröllner
Keno Lünsdorf
Eduardo Garzanti
Sergio Andò
Pedro Dinis
Hilmar von Eyttanen
Inês Pereira
Gert Jan Weltje
Pieter Vermeesch
Pedro Costa
Students
Early Bird
95€
Academic staff
Early Bird
125€
Other professionals
Early Bird
200€
Late Registrations: 200€