Applied micropaleobotany
General data
Course ID: | 1300-WMPBSW |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
07.304
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Course title: | Applied micropaleobotany |
Name in Polish: | Mikropaleobotanika stosowana-wdw |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Geology |
Course groups: |
Electives to be chosen from for I and II years in II degree study for other specializations |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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Language: | Polish |
Type of course: | elective 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. |
Practical placement: |
none |
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