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Tectonics

Summary

Whole Earth structure and Plate tectonics, Extensional tectonics - divergent
margins and rifting, Convergence and collisin, Fold-Thrust Belts, Strike-slip
tectonics,Tectonics of sedimentary basins

Literature

MOORES, E. M. and R. J. TWIST: Tectonics, 1995, W.H.Freeman and Comp. Science Massachusetts. ISBN-10: 1478621990 
MOLNAR P.: Plate Tectonics: 2015, A Very Short Introduction , OUP Oxford. ISBN10 0198728263 
NEMČOK M. et al.: Thrustbelt - Structure Architecture, Thermal Regimes and Petroleum Systems, 2005, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511584244 
TURCOTTE D.L. and G. SCHUBERT: Geodynamics, 2002, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66624-4

Advised literature

BUSBY C.J. & R.V. INGERSOLL: Tectonics of sedimentary Basins, 1995, Blackwell Science, 1-579. ISBN-10: 0865422451
DAVIS G.F.: Dynamic Earth, 1999, Cambridge University Press. ISBN-10: 0134006313 
FOSSEN H.: Structural Geology, 2010, Cambridge University Press. ISBN10 1107057647 
PRICE, N. J., J. W.COSGROVE: Analysis of Geological Structures, 1991, Cambridge Univ. Press London. ISBN 0 521 26581 9


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, angličtina
Code 541-0990
Abbreviation T
Course title Tectonics
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Petr Skupien, Ph.D.