Infopaket

Earth's evolution

ОК 4

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

1 Semester

5

- 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.

Full-time form

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

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

- 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

Lecture, Seminar

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.

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