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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2013/2014

Environmental Geochemistry

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0424/01
Abbreviation ENGCH
Course title Environmental Geochemistry
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Peter Andráš, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

Lectures:
The basic geochemical concepts. Geochemical background. Geochemical anomalies. Klark.
Geochemical dispersion. Elemental associations. Marker elements.
Geochemical classification of elements.
Internal factors of geochemical migration.
External factors of geochemical migration.
Geochemical barriers.
Geochemistry of the lithosphere.
Geochemistry of natural waters.
Geochemistry of the atmosphere.
Natural radioactivity elements.
Biogeochemistry.
Biogeochemical cycles of major organogenic elements.
Biogeochemical migration of minor and trace elements.
Organic geochemistry.
Remote transfer of pollutants.
Geochemistry of the landscape.
Tasks and application of environmental geochemistry.

exercise:
Sampling methods of geochemical materials - litogeochemistry of soil.
Sampling methods of geochemical materials - hydrogeochemistry, river sediments,
biogeochemistry, atmogeochemistry.
Geochemical maps, scale geochemical work.
Statistical evaluation of geochemical data.
Evaluation of soil contamination. Statistical analysis.
Processing maps of soil contamination.
Geochemistry of recent river sediments.

Povinná literatura

Alloway B.J. (2012): Heavy Metals in Soils: Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability (Environmental Pollution). Springer Verlag. ISBN 9400744692 .
Baskaran M (2012): Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Springer. 1-951.
Gill R. (2015): Chemical Fundamentals of Geology and Environmental Geoscience. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken,USA. 1-297. ISBN: 9780470656655 
Killops S., Killops V. (2004): An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Blackwell Science Ltd., 1-408. 2. edition, ISBN-10: 0632065044
Marshall P., Fairbridge R.W: (1999): Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1-798. ISBN: 0-412-75500-9
Nelson E. (2003): Principles of Environmental Geochemistry. Brooks Cole, ISBN-10: 01222290615 (528 p.)
Reemtsma T, Jekel M. (2006): Organic Pollutants in the Water Cycle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, ISBN 3-527-31297-8, (347 p.)
White V.M. (2013): Geochemistry. WIley-Blackwell. Chichester, USA.1-660. ISBN: 9780470656686 

Advised literature

Siegel, F. R.: Environmental geochemistry of potentially toxic metals. Berlin: Springer,2002, 1- 218.