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Geology and Deposits of Building Raw Materials

Summary

Annotation
Geological part:
1) Geology, its disciplines a working methods
2) Construction of planet Earth, isostasis, mechanical tension
3) Science about layer, layering, cycles and rythms, deposition of layers, technical meaning of layer surfaces
4) Structural geology, continuous and discontinuous structures
5) Endogenous dynamics, magmatism, plutonits, diastrofism
6) Exogenous dynamics, weathering, erosion, sedimentation
Deposit part:
1) Minig law – dedicated and non-reserved minerals, geological law
2) Basic terms a clasification of minerals and their genesis
3) Brick materials, plastic and focusing component, genesis, occurrence, use
4) Gravel and sands, genesis, occurrence, use
5) Glass and foundry sands, genesis, occurence, use
6) Construction stone, genesis, occurrence, use
7) Organogenic sediments and evaporits

Literature

Evans A. M.: Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals. Blackwell Science Ltd.,
Malden /Oxford/Carlton, 1993, 389 pp.
Harben, P.,W.,Kužvart,M.: Industrial Minerals: a global geology. Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., Surrey-London, 1996.

Advised literature

USGS Minerals Yearbook: Commodity Statistics and Information.Available at www:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, čeština, čeština
Code 541-0085
Abbreviation GLSS
Course title Geology and Deposits of Building Raw Materials
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jakub Jirásek, Ph.D.