Course code

MLG6024.LT

old course code

MLG6024

Course title in Estonian

Paleogeograafia

Course title in English

Paleogeography

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Major. To introduce the students to an interdisciplinary analysis of the principles of physical geography, physics, biology and archaeology. To reconstruct the development of landscapes and geospheres in the past and predict their future.

Brief description of the course

The concept of temporal-spatial scale and its application in paleogeography, methods for reconstructing Holocene environments, palaeoecological techniques. An overview of the modern advances in the field of paleoclimatology, pleistocene glaciations.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Be able to understand dynamics of nature process, analyze nowadays global problems and human activity time-space impact to global problems.

Teacher

Tiiu Koff, professor

Prerequisite course 1

Basics of General Geography (MLG6001.LT)

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Teacher of Biology (MLBOM/11K.LT)
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Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/09.LT)
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