Quaternary Palaeoenvironments - MZ330P125

• Title: Quaternary Palaeoenvironments
• Guaranteed by: Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology (31-330)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Martin Margold, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): John Duncan Jansen, Ph.D.; Mgr. Martin Margold, Ph.D.
• Class: Zkapacitnění laboratoře fyzické geografie - kulový; Zkapacitnění laboratoře fyzické geografie - kapali; Geoinformační laboratoř fyzické geografie; Původní předmět

Annotation

English

The course provides an overview of environmental changes in the Quaternary period and methodological
approaches how to study them. The main emphasis is given to the drivers of environmental changes and impacts
of environmental changes on the human population. Sedimentary record of climatic and environmental changes,
and temporal and spatial variability of Quaternary glaciation are reviewed as well. The students will acquire
knowledge of the basic environmental and palaeoclimate archives and the methods applied to extract information
from these archives.

Last update: Kliment Zdeněk, doc. RNDr., CSc. (06.01.2020)

Czech

The course provides an overview of environmental changes in the Quaternary
period and methodological approaches how to study them. The main emphasis is
given to the drivers of environmental changes and impacts of environmental
changes on the human population. Sedimentary record of climatic and
environmental changes, and temporal and spatial variability of Quaternary
glaciation are reviewed as well. The students will acquire knowledge of the basic
environmental and palaeoclimate archives and the methods applied to extract
information from these archives.

Last update: Rubešová Jana, RNDr., Ph.D. (07.04.2020)

Literature

Lowe, J., Walker, M. (2015): Reconstructing Quaternary Environments. Routledge, New York. 538 p.

Last update: Kliment Zdeněk, doc. RNDr., CSc. (08.01.2020)

Syllabus

1. Quaternary research: a historical overview

2. Dating methods

3. δ18O - a key record of Quaternary climate

4. Glacial geomorphology and stratigraphy

5. Quaternary glaciations: extents and chronology 1 - ice sheets

6. Quaternary glaciations: extents and chronology 2 - alpine glaciation

7. Environments of the mid-latitudes: loess, lacustrine, and fluvial records

8. Termination 1

9. The Holocene

10. Quaternary environments of central Europe

11. Humans in the Quaternary

12. Unresolved issues of Quaternary research

Last update: Kliment Zdeněk, doc. RNDr., CSc. (08.01.2020)