GA551 Biolithology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
1/0. 1 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Miroslava Gregerová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Rostislav Melichar, Dr.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Běla Hrbková
Timetable
Thu 10:00–10:50 01006
Prerequisites
Passed bachelors study. Managing of essential course of mineralogy and optical mineralogy and practical experience in work with polarizing microscope, DTA, X-ray and electron scanning microscope.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Product of biosphere are classified as minerals quite rarely and usually only in that case, when they are chemically close to natural minerals, originated in the nature also out of anthropogeneous region. Biolithology deals with the study of urinary and kidney stones or other concrements created in human or animal body respectively. Study of chemical composition, structure and texture of urinary and kidney stones is from the ethiopathogenetic point of view one of the way, how to obtain the base for preventive treatment of them. Anthropogeneous minerals, it means mineral assamblages originating in the nature in consequence of human activities, which are often specific by their chemical composition and genesis, are very freely associated with the biogeneous minerals.
Syllabus
  • 1) Biogeneous minerals: saltpetter, kolofan, vivianite, phosphates .............
  • 2) Research methods
  • 3) Optical identification of minerals
  • 4) X-ray identification of minerals
  • 5) DTA identification of minerals
  • 6) Utilization of electron microscopy and microanalysis
  • 7) Cathodoluminescence
  • 8) Prevention to formation of biolites
  • 9) Anthropogeneous minerals: products of calcification of gass tanks, eflorescents
  • 10) Anthropogeneous minerals: minerals crystallizing from water solutions
  • 11) Anthropogeneous minerals: minerals of slag heaps - products of weathering (oxidation) of sulphidic deposits
  • 12) Anthropogeneous minerals: Mineral of caustic metamorphosis
Literature
  • GREGEROVÁ, Miroslava. Petrografie technických hmot (Petrography technical materials). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 139 pp. ISBN 80-210-1427-. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přednáška uzavřená kolokviem
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Výuka bude probíhat v jarním semestru 2004/2005.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007.
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