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Environmental geochemistry

Class at Faculty of Science |
MG431P07

Syllabus

Methabolic pathways and the Earth, energy transfer and storage, reservoir, cycles and residence time, material flow, thermodynamics, origin and the evolution of the Earth and Solar system.

Litosphere, Earth stratification, magmatism, origin of the Earth Crust, weathering, transport, sedimentation, soil development, acidification of the soil.

Hydrosphere, properties of the water, water cycle , groundwater, ocean, composition and origin of sea water, ocean circulation, water pollution, eutrophication.

Atmosphere, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, atmospheric chemistry, source, sink, thermal balance of the atmosphere, type and sources of air pollution, greenhouse effect, ozone layer.

Biosphere, living organism, ecosystem, biom, climax ecosytem.

Cyclic and industrial metabolism, human induced material flows, energy, resources and the environment.

Global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, sulphur, nitrogen, phosporus, compounds, occurence, reservoirs, transformation, fluxes, perturbations

Biogeochemistry of small catchments,environmental problems studied in small catchments, natural and anthropogenic factors influencing small catchments, events, measurements, small catchments programmes

Annotation

Methabolic pathways and the Earth, energy transfer and storage, reservoir, cycles and residence time, material flow, thermodynamics, origin and the evolution of the Earth and Solar system.

Litosphere, Earth stratification, magmatism, origin of the Earth Crust, weathering, transport, sedimentation, soil development, acidification of the soil.

Hydrosphere, properties of the water, water cycle , groundwater, ocean, composition and origin of sea water, ocean circulation, water pollution, eutrophication.

Atmosphere, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, atmospheric chemistry, source, sink, thermal balance of the atmosphere, type and sources of air pollution, greenhouse effect, ozone layer.

Biosphere, living organism, ecosystem, biom, climax ecosytem.

Cyclic and industrial metabolism, human induced material flows, energy, resources and the environment.

Global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, sulphur, nitrogen, phosporus, compounds, occurence, reservoirs, transformation, fluxes, perturbations

Biogeochemistry of small catchments,environmental problems studied in small catchments, natural and anthropogenic factors influencing small catchments, events, measurements, small catchments programmes

Butcher S., Charlson R., Orians G., Wolfe G. (1992) (eds): Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Schlesinger W. - Academic Press, 379 pp. Schlesinger W.(ed) (1991): Biogeochemistry ,an analysis of global change. - Academic Press 443 pp.

M. Mihaljevie, B. Moldan (2000): Questions of Biogeochemistry (in Czech).- reading text, Nakladatelství Karolinum Praha, 105 pp.