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Lecturer(s)
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Kapusta Jaroslav, Mgr.
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Šráček Ondřej, prof. Ing. Ph.D., MSc.
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Course content
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1.Rock environment, its evolution and importance. The term geofactor. Short overview of the regional geology of the Czech Republic with emphasis on the hazard geofactors in individual regions and units. Geological maps and maps derived from them. 2 Geological factors of the environment. Natural and anthropogenic geofactors. Propitious, unpropitious, and hazard geofactors. 3. Hazard geofactors I. The impact of open-pit mining, underground mining, and building works. Transposition of large rock volumes. Methods of underground mining. The situation in Ostrava-Karviná coal mining district and in sub-Erzgebirge basins. Natural subsidence. 4. Hazard geofactors II. Accelerated erosion. Weathering. Erosion by wind and water. Soil protection from erosion. 5. Hazard geofactors III. Accelerated sedimentation. Transport and sedimentation. Water- and aeolic sedimentation. Sludge sedimentation. 6. Hazard geofactors IV. Gravitational mass movements, their causes, course, documentation and registration. Protection against gravitational movements. 7. Hazard geofactors V. Disturbance of the underground water regime by natural processes and human activities. 8. Hazard geofactors VI. Fast seismotectonic movements. Genesis and course of earthquakes. Direct and indirect damages. Examples. 9. Hazard geofactors VII. Impacts of volcanism. World- and domestic examples. 10. Hazard geofactors VIII. Toxic inorganic substances in soils, rocks and underground waters. Possibilities and pathways of contamination. Concentrations of heavy metals in the Earth's crust. 11. Hazard geofactors IX. Toxic organic substances in the rock environment. Petrolic substances, exploitation, processing, transport. The influence of transportation and industry. 12. Hazard geofactors X. Radioactivity of the rock environment. Radioactive elements, their behaviour and concentration, regional occurrence. Mining and processing of uranium in the Czech Republic. 13. Hazard geofactors XI. Radon in the rock environment. Genesis of radon, its behaviour, occurrence in the Bohemian Massif. Protection against radon. 14. Summary of methods and procedures of sanitation, revitalisation, renaturalisation and recultivation of the rock environment.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Introduction to geological factors of the environment.
The student should be able to: - define geological factors of the environment, natural and anthropogenic geofactors, the degree of their harmfulness - describe the possible impacts of various hazard geofactors (mining, weathering, accelerated sedimentation, gravitational mass movements, seismotectonic movements, volcanism, soil contamination, radioactivity - describe methods and procedures of sanitation, revitalisation, renaturalisation and recultivation of the rock environment.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Fundamental knowledge in geological disciplines, ability to apply the knowledge on biotic and abiotic nature. Written test.
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Recommended literature
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Hrkal, Z. - Čurda, J. (1990). Geologické aspekty deponování rizikových odpadů . MU Brno. ČGÚ Praha.
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Kukal, Z. - Reichmann, F. (2000). Horninové prostředí České republiky. ČGÚ Praha.
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Suk, M. (1999). Geologické faktory v ochraně životního prostředí. Brno, Moravské zemské muzeum.
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