Course Details
Geology
Academic Year 2024/25
BFA001 course is part of 4 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 1st year
BPC-MI Winter Semester 1st year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 1st year
BPA-SI Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction, Earth’s interior, historical geology, basic rock classification, rock-forming minerals and their properties.
2. Rock structure – generally; igneous rock structure, basic types of plutonic and volcanic rocks.
3. Sedimentary rocks I, textures, properties, behaviour and application of sedimentary rocks.
4. Sedimentary rocks II, basic types.
5. Basic types of metamorphic rocks, properties, behaviour and application of metamorphic rocks.
6. Endogenous processes in the Earth’s crust.
7. Exogenous processes in the Earth’s crust.
8. Landslides.
9. Ground water and springs.
10. Geological maps and information sources, methods of investigation of foundation ground.
11. Basics of regional geology of the Bohemian Massif and Western Carpathians on the territory of the Czech Republic.
12. Overview of basic types of foundation ground in relation to geological characteristics.
13. Basic tasks of engineering geology in construction in relation to environmental aspects. Exploitation of rocks and their application in building industry.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus