Course Details
Principles of regional geology of the Czech Republic for civil engineers
Academic Year 2025/26
VFC002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
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