PřF:G8141k Pedology - Course Information
G8141k Pedology
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr. (lecturer)
- Providers of Specific teaching support
- Mgr. et Mgr. Iva Raclavská, DiS. (přepisovatel)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Ing. Jana Pechmannová
Supplier department: Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Fri 22. 3. 12:00–15:00 Gp,02006, Fri 10. 5. 10:00–16:00 G1,01004, Fri 24. 5. 9:00–10:00 Gp,02006
- Prerequisites
- The course is devoted mainly for students of geology of magister degree
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied and environmental geology (programme PřF, B-AEG)
- Applied and environmental geology (programme PřF, N-AEG)
- Geoenvironmental risks and remediations (programme PřF, N-GRS)
- Geology (programme PřF, B-GE)
- Geology (programme PřF, B-GEO)
- Geology (programme PřF, N-GE)
- Geology (programme PřF, N-GEO)
- Course objectives
- Lectures on pedology familiarises students with basic pedological concepts, makes the aquaitance with basic physical and chemical characteristics of soils. The special attention is given to the problematics of pedogenetical processes which are responsible for the formation of individual soil types. The emphasis is put to the understanding of the soil as an open live system. The present soil classification and distribution of single soil types within the area of the Czech Republic as a result of substrate conditions, climatic conditions, etc., is the part of the subject. Studets try to both describe and classify the selected soil profile under the terms of practical part of lectures. At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand basic pedological terminology; explain mechanism of different types of pedogenetic processes; practical use of the soil classification system of the Czech Republic; basic description of soil profiles (including classification) and soil samples.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand basic pedological terminology; explain mechanism of different types of pedogenetic processes; practical use of the soil classification system of the Czech Republic; basic description of soil profiles (including classification) and soil samples.
- Syllabus
- 1. Soil and pedology (soil definition, soil system, soil as landscape system.
- 2. Soil attributes (soil depth and humus horizon depth, colour, soil structure and soil micromorphology, soil texture, soil skeleton, soil humidity, consistency, nodules, rootness, soil biology) and soil properties (physical: texture, specific weight, bulk density weight, porosity; chemical: humus content and composition, prevailing type of clay minerals, mineral potency of soil substrate, carbonates content, exchangeable soil reaction, cation exchange capacity, soil sorption complex, type and degree of soil degradation.
- 3. Soil regime.
- 4. General pedogenesis (basic mechanisms of pedogenesis) and special pedogenetic processes (weathering, humification, eluviation, iluviation, gleying and gley process, solonchak process, salinization).
- 5. Soil classification (soil profile, diagnostic horizons, soil horizon features and nomenclature, soil classes, types and subtypes diagnostics.
- 6. Environmental pedology (soil quality, physical processes influencing soil quality, risk substances in soils, farming and its influence on soil quality and biodiversity, soil antropization.
- Literature
- required literature
- NĚMEČEK, Jan, Miroslav KUTÍLEK and Libuše SMOLÍKOVÁ. Pedologie a paleopedologie. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1990, 546 stran. ISBN 8020001530. info
- recommended literature
- GOBAT, Jean-Michel and Michel ARANGO. The Living Soil - Fundamentals of Soil Science and Soil Biology. Enfield (USA): Science Publishers Inc., 2004, 602 pp. ISBN 1-57808-212-9. info
- BEDRNA, Zoltán. Environmentálne pôdoznalectvo. 1. vyd. Bratislava: VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2002, 352 s. ISBN 8022406600. info
- ŠARAPATKA, Bořivoj, Pavel DLAPA and Zoltán BEDRNA. Kvalita a degradace půdy (Soil quality and degradation). Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, 2002, 246 pp. ISBN 80-244-0584-9. info
- not specified
- ŠARAPATKA, Bořivoj. Pedologie a ochrana půdy. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014, 232 s. ISBN 9788024437361. info
- NĚMEČEK, Jan. Taxonomický klasifikační systém půd České republiky. 2. upr. vyd. Praha: Česká zemědělská univerzita, 2011, 94 s. ISBN 9788021321557. info
- Encyclopedia of soil science. Edited by Ward Chesworth. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, xxvi, 902. ISBN 9781402039942. info
- KOZÁK, Josef. Pedologie. 1. vyd. [v Praze]: Česká zemědělská univerzita, katedra pedologie a geologie AF, 2006, iv, 132. ISBN 8021309075. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class exercises.
- Assessment methods
- A study with describtion and classification of the selected soil profile is necessary for subsequent examination. Examination is in the form of written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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