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Terminated in academic year 2005/2006

Historical Geology

Type of study -
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0007/01
Abbreviation HG
Course title Historical Geology
Credits 0
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Zdeněk Vašíček, DrSc.

Course aims

One of the major objectives of historical geology is to describe the history of the Earth from its inception to the present. Knowledge and explanation how to recognise geological time and the use of stratigraphy, and paleontology to tell the sequence of these events.

Literature

Gradstein, F.M. et al.(2004): Geologic Time Scale 2004. - Cambridge University Press.
Nichols, G. (1999): Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. – Blackwell Publishing, 355 s. Oxford
Press, F., Siever, R. (1998): Understanding Earth - sekond edition. - W.H.Freeman and Copany, New York
Stanley SM. 2005. Earth Systém History. W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 567 s.

Advised literature

Gradstein, F.M. et al.(2004): Geologic Time Scale 2004. - Cambridge University Press.
Nichols, G. (1999): Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. – Blackwell Publishing, 355 s. Oxford
Press, F., Siever, R. (1998): Understanding Earth - sekond edition. - W.H.Freeman and Copany, New York
Stanley SM. 2005. Earth Systém History. W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 567 s.