Methods of palaeoclimate research

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Course ID:	1300-OMBP4W
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:	Methods of palaeoclimate research
Name in Polish:	Metodyka badań paleoklimatycznych
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geology
Course groups:
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):	(in Polish) Przed rozpoczęciem nauki przedmiotu student powinien znać podstawy stratygrafii czwartorzędu, genezę i cechy osadów czwartorzędowych różnych środowisk, podstawy kartowania geologicznego.
Short description:	The subject presents the most common investigation methods used in palaeoclimatology. The relationship between climate changes and geological processes are explained. The reconctruction of climate and environments of interglacials based on multiple analyses of lake sediments is discribed.
Full description:	The lecture is devoted to palaeoclimate investigations. The Quaternary climatic changes and their geomorphological and geological record are studied. The unexpected sources of palaeoclimatic data from both pre-instrumental and instrumental periods are presented (i.e. flamands painting, old diaries, chronicles, songs and legends). The methods of field works (sampling, outcrop analyses, hand drilling) are described in detail. The important laboratory methods are also presented, tought as base for master degree realization (i.e. petrographic analyses of gravels, quarz grains micromorphology examinations). It teaches also how to recognise results of climate changes in deposits with a use of geophisical methods and isotopic data analyses.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Mycielska-Dowgiałło E., Rutkowski J. (red.). 1995. Badania osadów czwartorzędowych. WGiSR UW, Warszawa Lowe L.L., Walker M.J.C. 1997. Reconstructing Quaternary Environments Longman, Essex Instrukcja do wykonania Szczegółowej mapy geologicznej Polski w skali 1:50 000, 1996. PIG, Warszawa Ber A., Marks L. (red.). 1998. Metodyka opracowania i wydania Szczegółowej mapy geologicznej Polski w skali 1:50 000. PIG. Warszawa
Learning outcomes:	After the classes students: - find multiple sources of geological and palaeoclimatic data - explain origin of climatic changes and their geological and geomorhoplogical records - know field methods - draw geological profile of outcrops - make till fabrics and petrographic indices - analyse pollen diagrams and palaeontological data from lacustrine sediments - fit proper analyse to solve geological problem - recognise frame of uncertainty of analytical methods - know gains and disadvantages of isotopic data in palaeoclimate reconstruction and sediment datings - know how to realise their master degree - know rules in writing of master thesis.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	List of presence, writing test.
Practical placement:	(in Polish) brak

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