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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Geology and Deposits of Building Raw Materials

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0085/02
Abbreviation GLSS
Course title Geology and Deposits of Building Raw Materials
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jakub Jirásek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Geology, it’s disciplines, usage of geology in construction and other praxis.
The Earth form angle of current knowledge (construction of the Earth, plate tectonics). Fundaments of the earth's crust – rocks and minerals. Characteristics of rocks and soils. Rocks in construction praxis. Geological structures. Magmatism. Effect of exogenous processes on the Earth. Types and shapes of relief, their usage in praxis. The basics of regional geology in CR. Deposits of carbonates and their use. The deposits of gypsum and it’s use. Sparkle and petrurgic materials and their usage. The deposits of gravel and sand and their usage. The deposits of decorative stones and their use. The deposits of brick materials and their use. The deposits of kaolin and it’s use.

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/