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Plate tectonics and subduction of lithosphere - NGEO072
Title: Desková tektonika a subdukce litosféry
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
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: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Geophysics
Annotation -
Plate tectonics theory, plate movements. Tectonic reconstructions of plate history. Lithosphere and astenosphere. Subduction. Rheology and numerical models.
Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
Aim of the course -

Improving theoretical knowledge on plate tectonics, subduction and processes on plate boundaries.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Gallovič František, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (10.06.2019)
Literature - Czech
  • K. Stüve, Geodynamics of the lithosphere, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Last update: Čížková Hana, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (06.10.2017)
Syllabus -

Plate tectonics, geometry and kinematics on the sphere, plate motion history.

Lithospheric plates, plate boundaries, crust and lithosphere.

Heat transport and thermal structure of continental and oceanic lithosphere.

Deformation of lithospheric plates, rheological description of continental and oceanic lithosphere.

Dynamic processes, extension, colision.

Metamorphic processes, P-T paths.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
 
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