Facies diagnosis and facies models of carbonates, classification of carbonate rocks; standard microfacies types; carbonate diagenesis; porosity evolution and diagenesis in sequence stratigraphic framework; pore geometry and performance of reservoir rocks; relationship of depositional environments with the development of reservoirs.
Properties of sandstone, environment of deposition of sandstone; sandstone classification, porosity evolution in course of sandstone diagenesis; characteristic reservoir morphology and criteria for recognition of eolian, fluvial, coastal, deltaic, shelf and basin sandstone bodies; reservoir heterogeneity; petrophysical analysis using logs; reservoir sedimentology of Indian petroliferous basins.