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Environmental Geomorphology

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0517/04
Abbreviation EGE
Course title Environmental Geomorphology
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Tomáš Dvorský, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP

Subject syllabus

1. The relief as the system, geomorphological terminology.
2. Dynamic geomorphology,sculpturing of relief by exogenic process.
3. The basis of relief classification,the relief as form (the slope of field, exposure etc.)
4. Anthropogenic process, terminology
5. Process to accelerate and to slowdown natural, exogenous processes, erosion and accumulation formes
6. Technogenic processes (aggraditional,transport, degradation)
7. Gravitation slope process in antrophogenic relief, erosion and accumulation forms (creep, slide)
8. Fluvial slope process in anthropogenic relief, erosion and accumulation forms (surface water erosion, subsurface water erosion)
9. Eolic process in antrophogenic relief, terminology (erosion and accumulation forms)
10. Weathering process in antrophogenic relief, erosion and accumulation forms (regolith)
11. Physical weathering of minerals and rocks: thermal, physical weathering ,due to crystal growth,swelling, biological weathering
12. Chemical weathering of minerals and rocks: hydrolysis, dissolution of cation exchange, oxidation and reduction
13. Methods of study genesis of anthropogenic relief

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.


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