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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Environmental Geomorphology

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0517/03
Abbreviation EGE
Course title Environmental Geomorphology
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator RNDr. Jana Nováková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The relief as the system. Geomorphological terminology.
2. Dynamic geomorphology. Sculpturing of relief by exogenic process. Comparing exogenic a endogenic process. Relief as form.
3. Fluvial process. Surface waters with specialized river modelling of surface. Hydrologic regime of rivers. Classification of rivers. Erosion and accumulation of river process. The exemplars of development of river process in model area CHKO Poodří and CHKO Beskydy.
4. Criogenic process. Erosion and accumulation by snowguard.
5. Glacial process. Erosion and accumulation features by criogenic process and periglacial zone. The exemplars of development of landscape.
6. Eolic process. Terminology.
7. Winter process. Wind as sculpturing factor of relief. Erosion and accumulation features in landscape. The exemplars of genesis of these formes in our country.
8. Weathering process as chemical and physical.
9. Karst process. Limestone karst. Erosion and accumulation features. Model area CHKO Moravský kras.
10. Slope process. Fluvial slope process. Slope process give subsurface water. Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape. Gravitation slope process. Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape. Model area – industry scenery of Ostrava.
11. Anthropogenic process. Terminology. Accelerated, decelaration natural exogenic process. Technology process (aggradational, transport, degradation). Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape.
12. Methods of study genesis of relief in landscape.
13. Geomorhology analysis. Collection data from geomorphology map and from Complex Special Maps. These exogenic processes prepare surface and undeground sculpture as typice erosion, transport and deposition of material. The regional aspect of this study of geomorphology object.
14. Region geomorphology in Czech republic.

E-learning

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Literature

SZABO, József. Dávid, LÓRÁNT and Lóczy, DÉNES. (eds.) Anthropogenic Geomorphology: A Guide to Man-Made Landforms. SPRINGER Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht-Heidelberg-London–New York, 2010.298 p. ISBN 978-90-481-3057-3 .
BRIERLEY, Gary J. a Kirstie A. FRYIRS. Geomorphology and river management : applications of the river styles framework. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xii, 398p. ISBN 1405115165 .
GORDON, Nancy D. Stream hydrology : an introduction for ecologists. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. xiv, 429. ISBN 0470843586 .
NAIMAN, Robert J., Henri DÉCAMPS a Michael E. MCCLAIN. Riparia: ecology, conservation, and management of streamside communities. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005. ISBN 0-12663315-0.

Advised literature

HRADECKÝ, Jan. a Václav ŠKARPICH. Selected Principles of Fluvial Geomorphology. In: Open Channel Hydraulics, River Hydraulic Structures and Fluvial Geomorphology. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Francis & Taylor Group, 2018. s. 241-258. ISBN 978-1-4987-3082-2 .
MÁČKA, Zdeněk a Jaroslav KADLEC. Strážnické Pomoraví - Holocene evolution of a unique floodplain and aeolian landforms. In Pánek, T. - Hradecký, J.. Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic. Switzerland: Springer, 2016. s. 361-371, 11 s. World Geomorphological Landscapes. ISBN 978-3-319-27536-9 .
NAIMAN, Robert J., Henri DÉCAMPS and Michael E. MCCLAIN. Riparia: ecology, conservation, and management of streamside communities. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005. ISBN 0-12663315-0.
THORNE, Colin R., Richard David HEY a Malcolm David NEWSON, ed. Applied fluvial geomorphology for river engineering and management. Chichester: Wiley, c1997. ISBN 0-471-96968-0.