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Terminated in academic year 2000/2001

Stratigraphic and Regional Geology

Type of study -
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0982/00
Abbreviation SGR
Course title Stratigraphic and Regional Geology
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Petr Skupien, Ph.D.

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

CHÁB, Jan. Outline of the geology of the Bohemian Massif the basement rocks and their carboniferous and permian cover. Vyd. 1. Praha: Česká geologická služba, 2010, 283 s. ISBN 978-80-7075-703-1.
NICHOLSON, G.: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. – 1999, Blackwell
Publishing, 355 s. Oxford Press,
ROGER, J. J. W.: A history of the Earth. - 1994, Cambridge University Press.328s. ISBN-13: 978-0521397827 
STANLEY, S. M. Earth system history. 3rd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2009, xxi, 551 s. ISBN 978-1-4292-0520-7.

Advised literature

BENTON M.J., HARPER D.: Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1405141574 
COWEN R.,History of Life, 2013, 5th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN : 978-1-118-51095-7.
DONOVAN, S. K.: The paleobiology of trace fossils. Chichester: Wiley, 1994, vi, 1-308. ISBN 0-471-94843-8.
GRADSTEIN, F. The geologic time scale 2012. 1st ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2012, x, s. 437-1144. ISBN 978-0-444-59434-12.