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Environmental Geomorphology

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Course Unit Code546-0517/04
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionEnglish
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
DVO203doc. Ing. Tomáš Dvorský, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP
Summary
This course provides information of landscape dynamics, above all fluvial morphological processes. It is focused on geomorphological, exogenous and emerging forms in the landscape. These processes create both surface and subsurface shapes in the processes of erosion, transport and accumulation. Practical regionalization of surface forms in the landscape of CZ and evaluation of the influence of this processes on environment.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understanding and evaluation of geomorphology process of landscape and aplication for model area.
Course Contents
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
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
DEMEK, Jaromír. Obecná geomorfologie. Praha: ČSAV Academia Praha. 1988. 476 s.
KIRCHNER, Karel a Irena SMOLOVÁ. Základy antropogenní geomorfologie. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2010. 287 s. ISBN 978-80-244-2376-0
ŠINDLAR, Miroslav a kol. Geomorfologické procesy vývoje vodních toků. Část I: Typologie korytotvorných procesů. Brno: Sindlar Group, 2012. 147 s. ISBN 978-80-254-2445-2
NAIMAN, Robert J., Henri DÉCAMPS a Michael E. MCCLAIN. Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities. ondon: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005. 448 s. ISBN 0‐126‐63315‐0
Recommended Reading:
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.
RUBÍN, Josef a Břetislav BALATKA. Atlas skalních, zemních a půdních tvarů.
Praha: Academia. 1986. 385 s.
DEMEK, Jaromír, Peter MACKOVČIN, Břetislav BALATKA et al. Hory a nížiny. Zeměpisný lexikon ČR. 2. upravené vydání. Brno: MŽP ČR, 2006. 582 s. Zeměpiský lexikon ČR, 2. upravené vydání. ISBN 80-86064-99-9
SMOLOVÁ, Irena a kol. Lexikon tvarů reliéfů České republiky. Olomouc: Katedra geografie Přírodovědecké fakulty UP v Olomouci, 2010, e-kniha. Dostupné z https://geography.upol.cz/soubory/studium/e-ucebnice/Smolova-2010/zdroje/literatura.html
HRADECKÝ, Jan a Václav ŠKARPICH. Selected Principles of Fluvial Geomorphology. In: Open Channel Hydraulics, River Hydraulic Structures and Fluvial Geomorphology. Boca Raton: CRC Pres, 2018. s. 241-258. ISBN 978-1-4987-3082-2
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Terrain work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
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Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
CreditCredit100 51