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Last update: Ing. Radek Trnka, Ph.D. (19.04.2006)
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Last update: Ing. Radek Trnka, Ph.D. (19.04.2006)
Reed Wicander , James S. Monroe . 2003. Evolution of Earth and Life Through Time. 427 pp. Thomson Brooks/Cole. Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991, The Age of the Earth: Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 474 p. Global Plate Tectonics and Paleogeography, Regional paleogeographic views of earth history. Ron Blakey, Northern Arizona University. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/%7Ercb7/globaltext.html This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics , U.S. Geological Survey.
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Last update: Ing. Radek Trnka, Ph.D. (19.04.2006)
1. Introduction - basics of Plate Tectonics 2. Triassic - desintegration of Pangea, eustatic cycles and climatic changes. 3. Jurassic - the origin of North Atlantic, Cimmerian movement, Mediterranean movement, eustatic cycles and climatic changes. 4. Cretaceous - origin of southern Atlantic, Cimmerian movement, Mediterranean movement, eustatic cycles and climatic changes. 5. Paleogene - Alpian-Carpathian orogeny, Tethyan Realm, eustatic cycles and climatic changes. 6. Neogene - Alpian-Carpathian orogeny, Tethyan Realm, Paratethys, eustatic cycles and climatic changes. 7. Quarternary - glaciation, climatic changes.
Dependencies: Course is following Course is following the Historic and Stratigraphic Geology G421P04G. Aim: The aim is to inform student about geological processes from the Permian/Triassic boundary untill Present. It shows kontinent movement, eustatic cycles and the climatic changes in Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Course schedule: 12 2-hour lectures Requirements: Examination, short essay |