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Fundamentals of geology for geographers - MG421P09U
Title: Základy geologie pro geografy
Czech title: Základy geologie pro geografy
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geology and Paleontology (31-420)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2018
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: not taught
Language: Czech
Additional information: http://web.natur.cuni.cz/ugp/main/staff/kachlik/Zakladygeologie-geograf/
http://dl2.cuni.cz/course/index.php?categoryid=25
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Filip Tomek, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MG421P09Z
Is incompatible with: MG421P09Z
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Annotation -
Last update: Ing. Radek Trnka, Ph.D. (14.04.2006)
This course provides basic knowledge of the internal structure of the Earth, its chemical and mineral composition, and processes (plate tectonics, magmatism, metamorphism, deformation of earth crust). Lectures in exogenous geology concern litosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere interaction (weathering, erosion, transport, and accumulation of waethered rocks) with respect to evolution of landforms.
Practices are concentrated in the work with rockforming minerals and rock types, and methods of geological study and maps.



Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Václav Kachlík, CSc. (19.03.2018)

Kachlík V., Chlupáč I. (1996): Základy geologie. Historická geologie. - Karolinum Praha. 341 pp. (povinná)
Press F., Siever R. (1998): Understanding Earth. Second Edition. - W.H. Freeman and Co., 682 pp. (doporučená)
Plummer Ch. C., McGreary D. (1993): Physical Geology. Sixth Edition. - Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 537 pp. (doporučená)

Skinner, J.B., Porter S.C. (1989): The Dynamic Earth. An introduction to physical geology, sec. ed.. J. Wiley and Sons., New York. 570 p.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Václav Kachlík, CSc. (19.03.2018)

credit requirements: concluding test,  solving and submitting tasks on the exercises
exam: test

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Václav Kachlík, CSc. (19.03.2018)

1. Introduction - geosciences and their short history; Minerals - origin, characteristics and rockforming significance;
2. Igneous rocks - their origin, rock constituents, rock bodies (magmatism and volcanism);
3. Sedimentary rocks - their origin, rock constituents, sedimentary processes, structures, and environments;
4. Metamorphic rocks - metamorphism (local and regional), metamorphic minerals;
5. The Earth and its internal structure - origin and evolution, characteristics of geospheres (earth crust, mantle, and core);
6. Plate tectonics - litospheric plates, driving mechanism, rates of plate motion, evolution of oceans and continents;
7. Tectonic structures in the earth crust - ductile and brittle tectonics (folds and faults), their relationship to plate tectonics, geological maps;
8. Groundwater and karst - hydrologic cycle, groundwater flow and its importance, karst landscape;
9. Stream water - rivers, alluvial deltas, and lakes - erosion, transport, and accumulation;
10. Glaciers - mountain and continental glaciers, glacial landforms;
11. Wind and deserts - eolian erosional and accumulation landforms (dunes, a.o.), desert environment, origin and processes;
12. Seas and oceans - shoreline to deep sea profile, marine processes and sediments;
13. Stratigraphy - the rock record, dating methods (relative and radiometric time), geologic time scale.

 
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