Earth's evolution
Course: Geoinformatics
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
            Title
        
        
            Earth's evolution
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК 4
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            Second
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2021/2022
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            1 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            5
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
             - To analyze features of natural and anthropogenic systems and objects of upper part of the Earth's crust and its sedimentary layer, in particular;
 - To be able to communicate with specialists and experts of various degree in other branches of knowledge, including international and global information medium;
- To know current methods of investigations of upper part of the Earth's crust and its sedimentary layer, in particular and to be able to apply them in production and research activity;
 - To apply tools of geographic information systems for solution of actual tasks of geological branch.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1. Knowledge of the theoretical foundations of Regional and Global Geology
2. Be able to analyze current ideas about Earth evolution in time and space 
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The tasks of the discipline – to highlight the following issues:
o ideas about the Earth as an unique planet of the Solar system;
o current ideas about evolution of the early Earth;
o peculiar features of Hadean period of Earth evolution;
o typical characteristics of Archean cratons with Ukrainian Shield as one of the examples;
o formation of supercontinents during Proterozoіc period of Earth evolution and associated
events;
o modern style plate tectonics as tectonic regime typical of Phanerozoic time of Earth evolution
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            - Best M.G. Igneous and metamorphic petrology. – Malden, USA: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2003.
- Boggs S.Jr. Petrology of sedimentary rocks. – Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Condie K.C. Earth as an evolving planetary system. – Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005. 
- Earth’s oldest rocks. // Van Kranendonk M.J.R. et al. in: Developments in Precambrian geology, V. 15 – Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 2007.
- Proterozoic crustal evolution. // Edited by Windley B.F. et al. in: Developments in Precambrian geology, V. 10 – Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 1992.
- Rogers J. J.W., Santosh M. Continents and supercontinents. – New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Rollinson H. Early Earth systems: a geochemical approach. – Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003.
- Taylor S.R., McLennan S.M. Planetary crusts: their composition, origin and evolution. – Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Lecture, Seminar
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            For admission to the final grading it is obligatory: 1) to pass two control tests; 2) to
prepare three oral reports, which can be presented in the form of presentations and abstracts. The
final grading is carried out in the form of written modular test.
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            English
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Zakhar
                    
                    Karly
                
                
                    Geology of mineral deposits 
Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
            Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Geology of mineral deposits
                    
                    
                        Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"