Geomorphology & Quaternary geology (Part 1) 1300-OEMQ1L1

Setting of geomorphology amidst other geoscience disciplines. Scope and methods in geomorphology. Selected landform-creative processes and landscape development in lowland areas with particular consideration of morphogenesis of morainic plateaus and river valleys. Landforms in mountain and upland areas – development of tops, crests, slopes and valleys. Principles of structural geomorphology and paleogeomorphology. Dependence of landscape evolution on geological structure, neotectonic movements and climate (pediplanation, pedimentation).
Quaternary against the Cainozoic climate changes. Boundary of Neogene and Quaternary in marine and continental deposits. Stratigraphic units of the Quaternary in the world. Review of main units and methods of investigation of Quaternary deposits. Description of characteristics of main types of glacial, fluvial, lake and aeolian deposits in connection with sedimentary environments and significance for palaeogeographic reconstructions for Poland during successive glaciations and interglacials. Knowledge of stratigraphic subdivisions of the Quaternary in Europe with particular consideration of number and extents of Scandinavian and mountain glaciations and conditions for development of interglacial fluvial patterns and sea transgressions. Listing and description of driving forces for glacial epochs and their reference to sea-level changes. Correlation of glacial-interglacial and less-soil cycles with global climate change, recorded in deep-sea sediments and long sequences of lake deposits.