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Course code: RSSN10231o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Geology and geomorphology
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 18 / 18 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Jerzy Weber
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Student gains a theoretical knowledge and practical skills enabling him to understand main geological processes undergoing in present and in geologic time scale;, as well as understanding processes of the Earth evolution. Student has a skill to characterize the most important minerals and rocks.

Competences: Student is able to describe and interpret main geological processes, as well as to identify the most common minerals and rocks. Student is able to interpret topographic and geologic maps.

Prerequisites: none

Course content: Development and classification of minerals and rocks; endogenic geological processes: plutonism, volcanism, metamorphism; egzogenic geological processes: weathering and releasing of elements into natural cycles; erosion, main geomorphological forms, diastrophism, origin and evolution of continents and oceans, development of mountain systems, lithosphere plate tectonics, tectonic deformations, reasons and effects of earthquakes, geologic time, methods of dating of geological events during history of the Earth; beginning of the universe and evolution of the Earth; geological eras and periods; the Earth as an element of solar system, structure of the Earth, geospheres: nuclei, mantle, lithosphere, continental and oceanic crusts.

Recommended literature: Stanley S.M.: Historia Ziemi. PWN Warszawa, 2002. Mizerski W.: Geologia dynamiczna dla geografów. PWN, Warszawa 1999. Mizerski W., Orłowski S. :Geologia historyczna dla geografów. PWN Warszawa, 2001 Ciesielczuk J., Jabłońska M., Kozłowski K.: Geologia dla studentów geografii. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 1997. Drozd J., Licznar M., Licznar S., Weber J. (2002): Gleboznawstwo z elementami mineralogii i petrografii. Skrypty AR we Wrocławiu, skrypt nr 470. Liber-Madziarz L., Teisseyre B. (2000). Mineralogia i petrografia. Oficyna wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej. Wrocław.

Assessment methods: practically completion of identification of main minerals and rocks, oral exam, minimum 70% of knowledge to pass.

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