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Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Geology

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0919/01
Abbreviation G
Course title Geology
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Pavel Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basis of the morphological, structural, physical and chemical crystallography.
2. Systematic mineralogy – overview of the selected minerals with a view to a
rockforming minerals.
3. Systematic petrography – magmatic, sedimentary and
metamorphic rocks, their origin and classification.
4. General geology - the Earth, its origin, evolution and layering,
5. Lithospheric plates, plate tectonics
6. Stratigrathy, sedimentary structures
7. Basis of structural geology - deformation (brittle and ductile geological structures),
8. Basis of exogenetic dynamics (weathering,
geological activity of ice, wind, water and gravitation).

Literature

Plummer C. C., McGeary D., Carlson D. H. (2005): Physical Geology, McGraw
Hill, Boston.
Press F. and Siever R. (1998): Understanding Earth, W. H. Freeman and Company,
New York.

Advised literature

Plummer C. C., McGeary D., Carlson D. H. (2005): Physical Geology, McGraw
Hill, Boston.
Press F. and Siever R. (1998): Understanding Earth, W. H. Freeman and Company,
New York.