Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	30
Laboratory/Exercise	30
e-learning	30

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

Lectures and exercises should qualify the students for understanding processes that formed minerals and rocks. Autonomous macroscopic determination of major petrogenic and ore minerals and major types of magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and their properties as well.

1. Nesse, W.D.: Introduction to Mineralogy.- Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford-New York, 2000, 442 p.
2. Best, M.G.: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (2nd ed.). Willey-Blackwell Sc., Oxford, 2003, 752 p.
3. Tucker, M.E.: Sedimentary Petrology – An Introduction to the Origin of Sedimentary Rocks (3rd ed.), Blackwell, Oxford, 2001, p. 262.
4. Stow, D.A.V.: Sedimentary Rocks in the Field; Manson Publ., London, 2005, p. 320.