Course Details
Speleological Mapping
Academic Year 2023/24
HE62 course is part of 2 study plans
N-P-C-GK / GD Summer Semester 2nd year
N-P-C-GK / GD Summer Semester 2nd year
Theoretical karstology and speleology. Conditions for karst development, factors. Karst cycle and denudation. Exokarst. Endokarst. Genesis and development of caves. Cave types. Cave interior. Karst hydrology and hydrography.
Karst extension in Czech Republic and worldwide. Practical meaning of karst for mankind. Karst preservation.
Speleological mapping. Speleological maps. Methods of cave measurement and depiction. Creation of a cave map.
Practical cave measurements.
Karst extension in Czech Republic and worldwide. Practical meaning of karst for mankind. Karst preservation.
Speleological mapping. Speleological maps. Methods of cave measurement and depiction. Creation of a cave map.
Practical cave measurements.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Acquaintance with problems of karst phenomena, its classification and preservation. Getting practical knowledge in field of speleological mapping.
Knowledge
Student will be introduced with teoretical karsologie and practical speleologie, especially with speleological mapping. Student will create the map of part of cave.
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of geography and surveying. Fundamental measuring and mapping methods.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.Contitions for carst development, exokarst and endokarst
2. Methods of cave mapping
3. Creations of map in cave
4. Protection of karst
5. Measurements in cave - 2 days, protection caves