Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Organization

TTK Department of Physical Geography

Code

quaternaryl18ex

Title

Quaternary studies (for Erasmus students)

Usual semester

Spring

Published semester

2025/26/2

ECTS

5

Language

en

Learning outcomes

The aim of this course is to present the environmental and climate changes during the Quaternary and the methods of investigations, especially the methods of the absolute and relative age determination. During the description of the methods the students can see the advantages and disadvantages of each method and can get the ability to think critically.

Course content

Introduction: the importance of the Quaternary climatic changes Boundary of the Quaternary Quaternary dating methods (Relative and absolute chronology) Litho- and Biostratigraphy Rock magnetic investigations (Paleomagnetic scale, Magnetic susceptibility) Amino acid racemization (AAR) method Stabile isotope stratigraphy Investigation of the ice cores Dendrochronology U-series dating Fission track method Radiocarbon dating Luminescence dating methods Cosmogenic nuclide dating Climate of the Quaternary Quaternary in the Carpathian-Basin Loess: windows to the past

Assessment method

written exam and an essay about the Quaternary history/stratigraphy of  the country of the student

Bibliography

Noller, J.S. – Sowers, J.M. – Lettis, W.R. Quaternary geochronology. p. 520. Scott A.E. 2007. Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. p.3576. ISBN (Electronic)978-0444527479, ISBN (Print)044451919X , 978-0444519191 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1029/RF004 Kukla, G.J., 1977. Pleistocene land-sea correlations 1. Europe. Earth Science Reviews 13, 307-374.

Programmes of the course