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Syllabus of Geology B.Sc I year in 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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