Introduction: the role of geophysical investigations in environmental and engineering studies, the main methods of environmental and engineering geophysics, specifics of shallow geophysical investigations, resolution of geophysical data Microgravimetry: field data acquisition, data corrections, separations of potential fields, direct and inverse interpretation Magnetometry: total field and gradient measurements, magnetic susceptibility of rocks, temporal corrections, separation ... Read more
Lectures: Structure of karstic rocks. Lithological, geochemical, hydrogeological and sedimentological properties, crucial for karstification and evolution of karstic features. Bedding planes, faults, fractures and their detection. Geochemical processes. Dissolution of rocks, kinetics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium chemical processes. Speleogenesis, karstification, dissolution velocity (kinetics), inception horizon hypothesis. Modeling of karstic and geochemical processes, vulnerability of waters in ... Read more
Lectures: Methodology of hydrogeological investigations Methodology of engineering work Methodology of hydrogeology mapping Pumping tests Inflow (slug) tests Design of hydrogeological constructions (observation wells, wells, sinking wells, drainage ditches) Design for drinking water supply Artificial recharge of aquifers Drainage of construction cites and mining works Seepage in hydrotechnics Injection Design of observational monitoring Design of ... Read more
Geological causes for evolutionary events (tectonic, climatic, environmental, biogeochemical) Life on ever changing Earth, plate tectonics, climate and life Origin and durability of life, oldest cells, evolution of the atmosphere First metazoans Animal evolution Gender/reproduction First vertebrates Transition to land Parallels in plant and animal evolution Evolution of jaw Evolution of locomotion Termoregulation Dinosaurs Transition ... Read more
Sequence stratigraphy: Concepts and Principles of sequence stratigraphy Tools of sequence stratigraphy Sequence stratigraphy of sedimentary systems Chemostratigraphy: definition, usability, restrictions Chemostratigraphic and sedimentological evidence of global environmental changes and their geological record Anoxic oceans: the causes and consequences, the geological record of anoxic events Chemostratigraphic tools (oxygen and carbon isotopes, biomarkers, strontium isotopes, redox-sensitive ... Read more
Carbonates: the basics Geological background sedimentation of carbonates Modern carbonate environment Former carbonate environment Mineralogy and chemistry of carbonates Diagenesis of carbonates Dolomitization Carbonate sedimentary records Clastic sediments and rocks: the basics Geological background of clastics sedimentation Modern clastic environment Former clastic environment Mineralogy and chemistry of clastics Diagenesis Clastic rocks in clastic sedimentary records
Lectures: Fossilisation of bones and other remains and traces of vertebrates in different environments; taphonomic factors. Characteristics of chordates and vertebrates and their origin. Review of the development, diversity, palaeobiology and biogeography of the major groups of vertebrates: Jawless fish (Agnatha), armoured fish (Placodermi), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), prickly sharks (Acanthodii), bony fish (Osteichthyes; ray-finned fishes ... Read more