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Environmental Geomorphology

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Course Unit Code546-0517/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Optional
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer 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
NOV42RNDr. Jana Nováková, Ph.D.
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 the geomorphology process of the landscape.
Course Contents
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.
4. Surface waters with specialized river modelling of surface. Hydrologic regime of rivers.
5. Classification of rivers. Erosion and accumulation of river process. The exemplars of development of river process in model area CHKO Poodří and CHKO Beskydy.
6. Criogenic process. Erosion and accumulation by snowguard.
7. Glacial process. Erosion and accumulation features by criogenic process and periglacial zone. The exemplars of development of landscape.
8. Eolic process. Terminology.
9. Winter process. Wind as sculpturing factor of relief. Erosion and accumulation features in landscape. The exemplars of genesis of these formes in our country.
10. Weathering process as chemical and physical.
11. Karst process. Limestone karst. Erosion and accumulation features. Model area CHKO Moravský kras.
12. Slope process. Fluvial slope process. Slope process give subsurface water. Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape.
13. Gravitation slope process. Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape. Model area – industry scenery of Ostrava.
14. Anthropogenic process. Terminology. Accelerated, decelaration natural exogenic process. Technology process (aggradational, transport, degradation). Erosion and accumulation features, the exemplars of development of landscape.
15. Methods of study genesis of relief in landscape.
16. 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.
17. Region geomorphology in Czech republic.



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
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