Geomorphology and Paleogeography

Paleontology

The program introduces students to geomorphology, which studies the relief of the Earth’s crust, its origin and history of development, and paleogeography, which studies the physical and geographic conditions of the past to understand the modern nature of the Earth.

General professional block of disciplines:

  • General Earth Science
  • Geomorphology and basics of geology
  • Climatology with fundamentals of meteorology
  • Hydrology
  • Ecology with the basics of biogeography
  • Soil geography and soil science basics
  • Landscape science
  • Topography
  • Cartography
  • Physical geography
  • Geography of Population and Demography
  • World Economic Geography
  • Economic and Social Geography
  • Socio-economic geography of foreign countries
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Aerospace methods of research.

Special block of profile disciplines:

  • Geochemistry of Landscape
  • Geophysics of landscape
  • Introduction in geomorphological research methods
  • Applied mathematics
  • Methods of paleogeographical research
  • Morphometric analysis and mathematical methods in geomorphology
  • Historical Geology
  • Structural geology and geological mapping
  • Doctrine of facies with basic lithology
  • Introduction to dynamic geomorphology
  • Erosion and channel processes
  • Fundamentals of Marine Geomorphology and Geology
  • Coastal geomorphology
  • Environmental Geomorphology
  • Applied geomorphology
  • Elective course in a foreign language
  • Geomorphology of continents
  • Late Cenozoic paleogeography and recent deposits.