1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Practicum	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Evolution of the (planet) Earth; Types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic), types of structures.
The primary structural elements of the lithosphere; the concept of layers and layer; types and kinds of wrinkles.
Tectonics; faults: their genesis and types / kinds of faults. Thurst.
Seismism and volcanism. Plate tectonics.
Interpretation of geological maps, geological profiles and columns. Applied geology - examples.
Paleontological legalities.
Taxonomy of major fossil groups in paleobotanic, paleozoology (invertebrates and vertebrates) micropaleontology. Main extinctions during geological history.
Best examples of evolutionary sequences, and interpretation methods of paleoecological conditions and paleogeography base on the principles of actualism.

1. McGeary, D. Plummer, Ch.C., & Carlson, D.H. :
   Physical Geology: Earth Revealed. McGraw-
   Hill, Boston, XVIII+574, 2004.
2. Prothero, D.R. & Dott, R.H.jr. : Evolution of the Earth. McGraw Hill
   Higher Education, 524 pp., Boston, 2004.
3. Chernicoff, S., Fox, H. A. & Tanner, L. H. :
   Earth: Geologic principles and history. 29 + 570. Houghton
   Mifflin Comp. Boston, New York, 2002.
4. Benton, M.J. & Harper, D.A.T. : Introduction to Paleobiology and the
   Fossil Record. Wiley-Blackwell. XII + 592, Oxford, 2009.
5. R.W. Jones: Applied Palaeontology. Univ. Press Cambridge
   XIII+434. Cambridge, 2006.
6. P.D. Taylor & D.N. Lewis: Fossil Invertebrates. Harward Univ.Press
   208 str. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005.
7. M.J. Benton: Vertebrate Palaeontology. Blackwell Publishing
   XI+455. Malden, Oxford, Carlton, 2005.

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