Basic

mapping course for

Petroleum engineers
Prof. Dr. Udo Zimmermann
Universidad de Stavanger
Noruega
Email: udo.zimmermann@uis.no
 PLAN
• Classe Trabajo en el Campo
• Tesis
• Plan de la maestria
 Plan del curso
• Miercoles hoy clases
• Sabado: AFLORAMIENTOS EN LA PAZ
• Domingo: AFLORAMIENTOS EN EL ALTIPLANO
• Informe del campo (5 personas): tiene que ser
entregado hasta 1.9. 2018 con email
 EVALUACION
• INFORME DEL CAMPO (100%)
 TRABAJO EN EL CAMPO
• ANOTACIONES EN UN LIBRO DEL CAMPO:
DESCRIPCIONES DE LAS ROCAS, MAPAS,
SKETCHES, PERFILES, TODAS LAS
OBSERVACIONES
• Grupos de 5 personas EN EL CAMPO
• INFORME del GRUPO
• Entregar hasta el 1.9. 2018
 INFORME DEL CAMPO
• Libro del campo – entregar lunes por los tests
• Si es adecuado: Bonus 5% POR EL INFORME
• Si es ausente: -15% POR EL INFORME
• Si es pobre: -5% POR EL INFORME
• INFORME: INCLUYE, MAPAS, SKETCHES,
PREFILES, INFORMACIONES DE LAS ROCAS
Excursion
 General plan
• Sabado: outcrops in La Paz (8-13 horas)
• Domingo: Altiplano (7:30-18 horas y vuelta)

• El autobus sale Sabado a las 7:30 horas

puntual (tiempo Aleman)
• El autobus sale domingo a las 7:30 horas
• En los dos dias desde el Correo en el centro
 Outcrops in La Paz
• Objectives:
• Training of identification of components
(clasts), composition
• Development of ideas (HCl probing)
• Routine development: how to describe an
outcrop
• Small profile
 Outcrops in the Altiplano
• Stop 1: Simple rock description
Description of an outcrop with definition of
lithotypes and identification of sedimentary
structures along the road
Description of a recent geological feature

Both with respect to petroleum plays

 Extraordinary features
• Weathering
• River system
• Stop 2: Simple rock description
Description of an outcrop with definition of
lithotypes along the road
 Extraordinary features
• Volcanic rocks
• Contact fault
• Lithology changes
 Stop 3: Mapping
• Main objective is to map a hill

finding contacts
identifying of lithotypes
measuring dip and strike
 Extraordinary features
• fossils
 Geological checklist for fieldwork
• Basic data: where, what etc.
• Rock types
• Others (no order):
• Grain size
• Grain forms
• Minerals if possible
• Bed thickness
• Lamination?
• Sedimentary structures: cross-bedding – grading – marks
• Look at the bottom of the layers
• Soft or hard? – hammer test
• Porosity-permeability
• Cleavage?
• Faults
• Folds
• Dip and strike
• Up and down? – old and young
• Color
• Color outside – color inside (without weathering)
• Fractures – measuring of those
• HCl- carbonate or not
• Do I have photos with scale?
• Do I have hand samples
• Did I number well ?
 Personal checklist for the fieldwork
• Hat
• Fieldbook – hard cover
• Pencil – or pen
• Permanent marker: fine and thick: black or blue
• Back pack (mochila)
• Water bottle
• Food
• Sun cream
• Sun glasses
• Camera
• Good scale (money coin –hammer)
• Boots
 Field report
• A short intro: §Several outcrops in La Paz and …. Have been visited to learn how to ....’
• Day 1: Stop 1 etc.
• Every outcrop: scan of sketch, photos, basic info, organised according to rocks:
• Rock 1: color, hardness, type, minerals, grain size-form, matrix, folded, faulted, bed thickness,
structures
• Rock 2: etc.....
• Map: hand in the map overlain the satellite photo
description of the rocks and a short text of the geological situation:
At X town, five lithologies have been found, the oldest… the youngest.... – if you don’t
know what is what say it....
The description – reference of elements used in your map – a rock legend from old
bottom to young top – not vice versa
Devide in: geology (lithotypes and their basic characteristics and contacts) – structure –
depositional environment
Finally: what you think you ahve learnt during the three days
If you have references then use them according to the journal ‘Sedimentology’

Hand-in: at latest 1.9. 2018 per email as pdf or on drop boxs – font 12 – 1.5 spaced – not ore
than 2 cm border – every figure a caption (a text) with clear numbering according to the time of
referencing or referring to it during the text – no figure shall exist which is not referred to – only
full sentence: Fiug. 3: Sandstone of the Ordovician succession at XY, ote the red weathering color.
NOT: Fig. 5: Caliza. – Every photo in the filed or in a laboratory with scale
 TEORIA
1- General aspects
2- Approaching sedimentary rocks in the field
3- Typical features of sedimentary rocks
4- Contacts to other rocks
 TEORIA
1- General aspects
• Preparation for field work
• Maps
• Notes
• Overview
• Start up and details
• Sampling
• Mapping
• Profiling
2- Approaching sedimentary rocks in the field
3- Typical features of sedimentary rocks
4- Contacts to other rocks
 Preparation for field work
• Where
• Weather
• Objective
• Logistics
• Economics
• Outcrop selection
• Sample preparation
 Maps
• Type
• Geography
• Google enough?
• Satellite
• Objective: earlier publications?
• Scale?
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