Course Details

Principles of regional geology of the Czech Republic for civil engineers

Academic Year 2024/25

VFC002 course is part of 2 study plans

​ Elective Courses Summer Semester

​ Elective Courses Winter Semester

Course Guarantor

prof. RNDr. Lukáš Krmíček, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/282503

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

Geological units of the Czech Republic Tectonic structure of the Bohemian Massif and of the Outer Western Carpathians Pre-Mesozoic units of the Bohemian Massif Platform units of the Bohemian Massif Outer Western Carpathians in the Czech Republic Engineering and geological characteristics of the rocks Crystalline units Consolidated Paleozoic sediments Mesozoic consolidated cohesive sediments Paleogene consolidated cohesive sediments Carbonate rocks Neovolcanites Tertiary unconsolidated sediments Quaternary cover (soil and loess complexes, river terraces)

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Working with thematic maps: Geological units of the Czech Republic Tectonic structure of the Bohemian Massif and of the Outer Western Carpathians Pre-Mesozoic units of the Bohemian Massif Platform units of the Bohemian Massif Outer Western Carpathians in the Czech Republic Engineering and geological characteristics of the rocks Practical examples of rocks and soils: Crystalline rocks Consolidated Paleozoic sediments Mesozoic consolidated cohesive sediments Paleogene consolidated cohesive sediments Carbonate rocks Neovolcanites Tertiary unconsolidated sediments Quaternary cover