Applied micropaleobotany

General data

Course ID:	1300-OMPBSW
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:	Applied micropaleobotany
Name in Polish:	Mikropaleobotanika stosowana
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmiot sugerowany do wyboru na II 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
Short description:	Micropaleobotanic studies are mostly carried out by palynological methods and focus on such group of organism as diatoms, coccoliths, dinocyst as well as minute particles of plants - phytoliths - and pollen and spores.
Full description:	Morphology of modern pollen grains and spores - structure and sculpture of exines; pollen rain and the problem of pollen transfer agents; pollen accumulation and preservation of pollen exines in sediments; sampling methods, laboratory procedures, pollen counting and identification, identification keys, pollen reference slides, construction of pollen diagram, pollen analysis as statistical and climatostratigraphical method, interpretation of results; spores of early land plants, spores/macrospores and pollen of Devonian/Carbonaceous and Mesozoic strata and Tertiary/Quaternary interglacial deposits. Palynology of the Late Glacial/Holocene sequences - analysis of human impact. Practical applications of pollen analysis - melissopalynology, analysis of modern pollen rain. Phytoliths. Silicoflagellata, Dinoflagellata and Bacillarophyta: skeletal morphology, stratigraphical significance.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Jansonius J., McGregor D.C 1996. Palynology: principles and applications.
Learning outcomes:	Students should be able to identify the basic groups of botanical microfossils (and show elements of their skeletal structure/sculpture) such as diatoms, coccoliths, dinocyst and phytolits and to know their potency as stratigraphical tools and application in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction as well as to perform pollen analysis of peat/lacustrine sediments - starting from laboratory procedures, through counting and identifying pollen and finally making and interpreting pollen diagram.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	About 60% of correct responses are required for passing. Written exam, semestral test.
Practical placement:	none

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