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Mesozoic and Cenozoic Palaeogeography - MG422P33
Title: Paleogeografie mesozoika a kenozoika
Czech title: Paleogeografie mesozoika a kenozoika
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geology and Paleontology (31-420)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2010
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
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
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Martin Košťák, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: Ing. Radek Trnka, Ph.D. (19.04.2006)
The course informs student about geological processes from the age of Pangea II desintegration untill Present. It dwells on the Plate tectonics, global sea level changes and the climatic changes in Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Literature - Czech
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.

Syllabus -
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

 
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