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Reconstructing the Quaternary Climate Change - MZ330P124
Title: Reconstructing the Quaternary Climate Change
Czech title: Rekonstrukce kvartérních klimatických změn
Guaranteed by: Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology (31-330)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Martin Margold, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (01.04.2019)
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. Lectures are in English.
Literature
Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (01.04.2019)

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

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (01.04.2019)

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 climate change in central Europe

11.     Humans in the Quaternary

12.     Unresolved issues of Quaternary research

 
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