Kumaun University
Kumaun University
B. Sc. I (First Year) Geology
THREE-YEAR FULL-TIME PROGRAMME
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B. Sc. I
Paper- I
Physical Geology Max marks 33
Unit I: Geology and its branches Earth in the Universe. Origin and age of the Earth. Interior and internal energy of the Earth.
Unit II: Endogenic and exogenic processes of the earth. Concept of sea floor spreading and plate tectonics. Mountain building and Isostacy.
Unit III: Causes, magnitude, intensity and distribution of earthquakes. Causes, types and distribution of volcanoes. Landslides and their types
Unit IV: The rock cycle. Basic characters of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Weathering and soil formation. Erosion and its types..
Unit V: Geological works and associated landforms of wind, glacier, river, oceans and underground water.
Paper- II
Structural Geology Max marks 33
Unit I: Elements of Structural Geology- out crop, bedding, strike and dip of beds, contours and
their important patterns.
Unit II: Determination of Top and Bottom of beds.
Unit III: Folds and faults- their morphology and classification, effects of folds and faults on
outcrops.
Unit IV: Joints and their classification. Unconformity- types and significance.
Unit V: Rock cleavage, schistosity, foliations, and lineations; their types, and geological
significance.
Paper- III
Crystallography and Mineralogy Max marks 33
Crystallography:
Unit (I): Definition of crystal, Crystalline and amorphous, Crystals forms, faces, edges, solid angles, interfacial angles and their measurement.
Unit (II): Crystallographic axes and elements of symmetry. Parameters, Weiss and Miller system of notation.
Unit (III): Morphological study of common forms of the normal class of cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic system
Unit (IV):Types of Twinning.
Mineralogy:
Unit (I): Physical properties of minerals concept of silicon oxygen tetrahedral and classification of silicates.
Unit (II): Study of minerals of silica, feldspar, mica, amphibolites, pyroxene, garnet, and olivine families.
Unit (III): Plane polarized light. Isotropism and Anisotropism. Nicol prism and polarizing
microscope.
Unit (IV): Behaviour of light in isotropic and anisotropic minerals (Uniaxial)
Unit (V): Basic knowledge of birefriengence, pleochroism and extinction.
Suggested Readings:
1. Rutley’s Elements of Mineralogy, by H. H. Read
2. Essentials of Crystallography, V. Snigireskava
3. Morphologic Crystallography and Optical Mineralogy, by S. Ray
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