PřF:G9841 Microscopy for dipl. students - Course Information
G9841 Microscopy for diploma students
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Losos, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Dalibor Všianský, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Losos, CSc.
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 - Prerequisites
- Passsed Bachelor's degree study
- 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
- there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Microscopy and special petrographical work for diploma students practicals - consultations
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to: - apply optical microscopy of minerals and rocks in solving the topic of his diploma thesis thema
- Syllabus
- The instruction has the nature of consultations, pertinent to petrological work. It is focused on practical tasks, ensuing from the theme of diploma thesis, namely: - micropetrographic analyses, quantitative mineralogical analyses, rock classifications, grain-size measurement, porosity - microstructural and textural petrological characteristics - thermogravimetry and its application - X-ray diffraction study of rocks and its application - infrared spectroscopy and its application in petrographically oriented work - electron microscopy and microanalysis The instruction is modified according to needs of the diploma students in individual classes
- Literature
- recommended literature
- GREGEROVÁ, Miroslava. Poznávání hornin. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 153 s. ISBN 8021018380. info
- not specified
- GREGEROVÁ, Miroslava, Bohuslav FOJT and Václav VÁVRA. Mikroskopie horninotvorných a technických minerálů (Microscopy rock-forming and technical minerals). 1st ed. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 2002, 315 pp. monografie. ISBN 80-7028-195-2. info
- OKRUSCH, Martin and Hartwig E. FRIMMEL. Mineralogy : an introduction to minerals, rocks, and mineral deposits. Berlin: Springer, 2020, xi, 719. ISBN 9783662573143. info
- Teaching methods
- A lab exercise, consultations, work on individual problem
- Assessment methods
- The course is finished by credit.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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