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Plate tectonics and subduction of lithosphere - NGEO072
Title: Desková tektonika a subdukce litosféry
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Geophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
Plate tectonics theory, plate movements. Tectonic reconstructions of plate history. Lithosphere and astenosphere. Subduction. Rheology and numerical models.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)

Improving theoretical knowledge on plate tectonics, subduction and processes on plate boundaries.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature - Czech
Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)
  • K. Stüve, Geodynamics of the lithosphere, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Lecture

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)

Plate tectonics, geometry and kinematics on the sphere, plate motion history.

Lithospheric plates, plate boundaries, crust and lithosphere.

Heat transport and thermal structure of continental and oceanic lithosphere.

Deformation of lithospheric plates, rheological description of continental and oceanic lithosphere.

Dynamic processes, extension, colision.

Metamorphic processes, P-T paths.

 
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