1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The course should demonstrate the chronological development of ideas in geology, their mutual controversies and opposition, resistance of old ideas and their gradual submission to the newer ones. Pre-scientific epoch (antiquity, Middle ages). Neptunists ? vulcanists ? plutonists. Catastrophists ? uniformitarianists. Ice ages (glaciations). Age of the Earth. Geosynclinal theory ? plate tectonics (including fixists and mobilists in the Alpine tectonics). Constraints of the uniformitarian approach and its role in other natural sciences. History of geology in Croatia and neighbouring countries.

1. Hallam, A.: Great geological controversies, Oxford University Press, 1983.
2. Hallam, A.: Revolutions in Earth History. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Izborni kolegiji za smjer Geologija i paleontologija (zimski semestar) - Regular study - Geology

Izborni kolegiji za smjer Geologija i paleontologija (zimski semestar) - Regular study - Geology