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Plate tectonics and subduction of lithosphere - NGEO072

Title:	Desková tektonika a subdukce litosféry
Form of teaching:	lecture
Guaranteed by:	Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2016
Duration in semesters:	1
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Repeated enrollment:	2 / 2 / 2 / 2

Guarantor:	doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
Classification:	Physics > Geophysics

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Annotation -

Plate tectonics theory, plate movements. Tectonic reconstructions of plate history. Lithosphere and astenosphere. Subduction. Rheology and numerical models.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)

Aim of the course -

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

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)

Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Gallovič František, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Literature - Czech

K. Stüve, Geodynamics of the lithosphere, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)

Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme - Czech

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

Last update: Čížková Hana, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Syllabus -

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.

Last update: T_KG (09.05.2013)