Field course – Geology across borders

General data

Course ID:	1300-OKGBG4L
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.304 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Field course – Geology across borders
Name in Polish:	Kurs terenowy - Geologia bez granic
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmiot sugerowany do wyboru na II semestrze I roku na stud. II st. GEP na spec. SSP
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	Required are: course in Historical Geology, course in Regional Geology, Praktikum z sedymentologii skał klastycznych oraz proseminarium Geologia Karpat polskich i ich przedpola.
Short description:	The course is focused on recognizing the geology of selected areas of Poland and other countries. Depending on the choice of students, the course can take place in one of the four variants: [1] Geology of fold and thrust belts – Carpathians (Slovakia and Poland), [2] Characteristics of sedimentation in foreland basins – Carpathian Foredeep (Ukraine and Poland), [3] Sedimentary successions in the Sudetes (Czech Republic and Poland); [4] the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic succession of a Gondwanan region (Morocco). In each case the students will get acquainted with: facies development, stratigraphic aspects and characteristics of tectonic processes of selected sedimentary basins. The course will also include analysis of the main landforming processes taking place in the Neogene.
Full description:	„Geology across borders’ is a field course, in which the students take part generally with students of other universities. In Option I – with students of the Scince Faculty (Institute of Geology and Palaeontology) of the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). The course leader from the Slovakian side will be dr Roman Aubrecht. The course topic is devoted to the recognition of the geology in selected units of the Carpathians and the Pieniny Klippen Belt in Poland and Slovakia. The evolution and variability of sedimentation in both Outer and Inner Carpathians and in selected basins of the Pieniny Klippen Belt will be presented. The facies development, stratigraphic aspects and characteristics of tectonic processes of selected sedimentary basins will allow recognition of the folding processes of the Alpine orogen in Slovakia. Facts gained after the course on the geology of Slovakia will help in understanding the history of the Carpathians, particularly Outer Carpathians and the Pieniny Klippen Belt, thus enriching the knowledge in regional geology of the world. In Option II – the course is based in Poland and the Ukraine. The students learn facts about the formation and filling of the Carpathian Foredeep in response to the fold and thrust activity in the Carpathians. Presented are rocks exposed in the northern marginal sedimentary zone (in Roztocze and Podole), as well as in a zone directly adjacent to the Carpathian thrusts (near Boryslav in the Ukraine). In Option III – the course is conducted jointly by staff of the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw and of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Studies, UAM University in Poznań. The course area is in the Polish and Czech parts of the Sudetes. The most significant depositional successions of the Sudetes are presented, including those of Devonian, Carboniferpus, Permian and Cretaceous age. The course activities are also devoted to recognize the main landforming processes in the Neogene. In Option IV - The course is run by the scientific staff of the Faculty of Geology ( Institute of Geology ) - UW and the scientific staff of Geozentrum ( Institut für Paläontologie ) - University of Vienna . The course is conducted in English. The tour will be led by Vienna, Lower Austria , Burgenland , Upper Austria and the SalzburgerLand . We will learn about the geological structures of the Pannonian basin and the basin of Vienna , as well as the geology of the Northern Limestone Alps, including Salzburg Range. We will visit the geological secctions, in which we will see , among others, (1 ) Early Miocene transgressive sediments on the crystalline massif of the Czech Republic (Lower Austria) ; ( 2 ) sediments of the Middle and Late Miocene in the Eisenstadt basin in Burgenland, (Eastern Austria) and in the western border of Hungary; (3 ) Late Oligocene - Early Miocene sediments of Molasse Basin in the Alps Foreland ( Upper Austria ), ( 4) Mesozoic facies in the Northern Limestone Alps in Dachstein , Gosau (Upper Austria) , Adnet, reef limestones , Ammonitico Rosso ( Salzburg). We will use the cable car up to the top of the Alpine peak Krippenstein ( 2100 m), from where we will go on the mountain tour to see outcrops of Triassic Dachstein limestone facies. In Option V – the course is based in southern Morocco. The students learn facts about the Palaeozoic and Mesosoic succession of a Gondwanan area, with particular attention drawn onto the post-Cadomian sedimentary cover, development of Devonian mud mounds (Kess Kess mounds) reflecting sedimentation in an environment induced by hydrocarbon seeps, and development of Jurassic microbial mounds. Attention is drawn also on present-day landforming processes with observations of the largest dune field in Morocco (Erg Chebbi).
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Wariant I: Golonka J., Picha F.J. (2006). The Carpathians and Their Foreland: Geology and Hydrocarbon Resources. AAPG Memoir #84, pp. 835. Hok J, Kahan S, Albrecht R. 2001. Geologia Slovenska. pp. 49. Univerzita Komenskeho Bratislava Wariant II: Golonka J., Picha F.J. (2006). The Carpathians and Their Foreland: Geology and Hydrocarbon Resources. AAPG Memoir #84, pp. 835. Andreyeva-Grigorovich A.S., Oszczypko N., Ślączka A., Oszczypko-Clowes M. Savitskaya N.,Trofimovicz N. (2008). New data on the stratigraphy of the folded Miocene Zone at the front of the Ukrainian Outer Carpathians. Acta Geologica Polonica, 58 (3), 325-353. Wysocka A. & Jasionowski M, 2006 – Przebieg i zmienność sedymentacji w basenach przedgórskich. Materiały Konferencyjne II Polskiej Konferencji Sedymentologicznej. pp. 178. Wariant III: Wajsprych B. (1995): The Bardo Mts. rock complex: the Famennian-Lower Carboniferous preflysch (platform)-to-flysch (foreland) basin succession, the Sudetes. 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(Eds.), Upper Triassic Subdivisions, Zonations and Events. Meeting of the late IGCP 467 and STS, , September, 28th - October, 2nd, 2008, Bad Goisern (Upper Austria), Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76, p. 111-116. Wien. PERVESLER, P., ROETZEL, R. & UCHMAN, A. (2011): Ichnology of shallow sublittoral siliciclastics of the Burgschleinitz Formation (Lower Miocene, Eggenburgian) in the Alpine-Carpathian Foredeep (NE Austria). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 104, 1, p. 81-96. PERVESLER, P. & ROETZEL, R. 2012. Die Seekühe aus dem Eggenburger Meer. In: Martin, T, Koenigswald, W., Radtke, G., Rust, J. (Eds.): Paläontologie Pfeil Verlag, München, 152-153. PERVESLER P. & UCHMAN, A. 2004: Ichnofossils from the type locality of the Grund Formation (Miocene, Lower Badenian) in northern Lower Austria (Molasse Basin). Geol. Carpathica 55, 103—110. PERVESLER, P., UCHMAN, A. & HOHENEGGER, J. 2008. New methods for ichnofabric analysis and correlation with orbital cycles exemplified by the Baden-Sooss section (Middle Miocene, Vienna Basin). Geologica Carpathica, 59, 5, p. 395 -409. PILLER, W. E., DAXNER-HÖCK, G., DOMNING, D. P., FORKE, H. C., HARZHAUSER, M., HUBMANN, B., KOLLMANN, H. A., KOVAR-EDER, J., KRYSTYN, L., NAGEL, D., PERVESLER, P., RABEDER, G., ROETZEL, R., SANDERS, D., SUMMESBERGER, H. 2000. Palaeontological Highlights of Austria. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 92, p. 195-233, Wien. RIEGL, B. & PILLER, W.E. (2000) Biostromal Coral Facies: a Miocene Example from the Leitha Limestone (Austria) and its Actualistic Interpretation. Palaios, 15, 399–413. Wariant V: Cavalazzi B. (2006): Kess Kess carbonate mounds, Hamar Laghdad, Anti-Atlas, SE Morocco – a field guide, 01-05 December 2006. Geyer G., Landing E. (2006): Latest Ediacaran and Cambrian of the Moroccan Atlas regions. Beringeria Special Issue 6: 7-46.
Learning outcomes:	Following the course, the students are able to recognize the stratigraphic and lithostratigraphic units of the course area. They have knowledge to describe the geology of the course area and interpret the sedimentary and tectonic processes influencing its development.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Activity in field and a written test.
Practical placement:	(in Polish) brak

This course is not currently offered.

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