SUBJECT
Title
Quaternary research
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Our currennt physical geographical environment developed during the Quaternary, the latest period of the Earth history. The establishment and future development of knowledge of the process is of prime importance, so within the framework of the course, students learn about the most important phenomena, the most important methods of their research, and the interdisciplinary aspects of the result of these research can be generalized.
- The interdisciplinary approach of the Quaternary (climate, soil forming processes, typical geomorphological phenomenon, sediments). Difficulties of the withdrawal of the boundaries of Quaternary.
- Changes in the vertebrate fauna.
- Changes in molluscs fauna.
- The vegetation changes (pollen analysis).
- The archeology and Quaternary Research.
- Changes in the fluviatil and aeolian environment.
- Methods for determining the relative and absolute age of the Quaternary formations.
- The characteristic Quaternary sediment of the Carpathian Basin: the loess.
- Loess stratigraphy in Hungary.
- Lateglacial and Holocene changes of the geographical environment.
Readings
- Michael A. Summerfield (1991) Global Geomorphology. Routledge, p 537, ISBN-10: 0582301564
- Dale F Ritter (2011) Process geomorphology.p. 652. Waveland Press Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0697050359
- Adrian Harvey (2012) Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes. ISBN-13: 978-1906716325