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Petrology

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0905/02
Abbreviation PG
Course title Petrology
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Slivka, CSc., dr. h. c.

Subject syllabus

Rock-forming minerals, rock structures and textures.
Genetic criteria for classifying rocks.
The rock cycle.
Petrography of magma rocks.
The relationship of magmatizm to "plate tectonic."
Vulcanism, distribution in relation to interface types.
Basitoid volcanism.
The formation of sediments.
Classification schemes for sedimentary rocks.
Petrology of metamorphic rocks - principles of genetic classification, modelling processes of metamorphosis (petrogenetic grids).

Literature

BUCHER K. and R. GRAPES: Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks. 2011, Springer Verlag Berlin, 978-3-642-38799-9, 1-368
HALDAR S.K.: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology. 2014, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-12-408133-8 , 1-338.
FROST B. R. and C.D. FROST: Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Cambridge University Press. 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-02754-1, 1-304.
Le MAITRE R. W. ed.: Igneous Rocks. A Classification and Glossary of Therm. Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommisions on the Systematic of Igneous Rocks. 2002, Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN-13 978-0-521-66215-4 , 1-236.

Advised literature

BARKER A.J.: A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section. 2014, CRC Press, ISBN 978-11-38001145 , 1-182.
BOGGS S. jr.: Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks. 2009, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN-13 978-0-521-89716-7 , 1-600.
BUCHER K. and R. GRAPES: Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks. 2011, Springer Verlag Berlin, 978-3-642-38799-9, 1-368
SEN G.: Petrology. Principles and Practice. 2014, Springer Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-642-38779-9 , 1-368.


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