G4020 Sedimentary Petrology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Jindřich Štelcl, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Miroslava Gregerová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Rostislav Melichar, Dr.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Jindřich Štelcl, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
G1060 Mineralogy I && ( G2060 Mineralogy II || NOW ( G2060 Mineralogy II ))
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The history of sedimentary petrology. Sediments and their significance. General resources of the sedimentary material. The occurrence of sedimentary rocks in the litosphere. Relations between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. Sedimentary cycle. Basic types, composition and provenance of sedimentary rocks. Field and laboratory methods in the sedimentary petrology (the measurement of grain size, the statistical distribution of grain size, geological controls on detrital grain shape). Composition of sedimentary rocks, origin of sedimentary rock-forming minerals. Sedimentary fabric and structure (grain properties, definition and range of grain size, the shapes of sedimentary particles, surface texture of sedimentary particles, porosity and permeability, bedforms and structures in granular sediments, bedforms caused by erosion, biogenic and organo-sedimentary structures, deformation structures, stromatolites). Weathering processes, weathering and soils, erosion, weathering and the sedimentary cycle. Mechanics of sediment transportation(motion of the transporting medium, grain flows, aqueous processes, eolian processes, glacial and gravitational processes, transportation and orientation of grains). Sedimentation, environment of deposition. Main types of the sedimentation. Sedimentation and tectonics, climatic conditions and sedimentation, sedimentation velocity. Diagenesis, main phases in lithogenesis (syndiagenesis, anadiagenesis, epidiagenesis. Geophysical and geochemical conditions of diagenesis, diagenetic evolution, anchimetamorphism. Classification of sedimentary rocks. Basic types of sedimentary rocks - composition, structure and origin.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002.
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