UNIT I
GENERAL GEOLOGY:-
Weathering: Types and Products - Geological work of
wind, River, Groundwater, Glacier and Lakes - Origin,
Interior and Age of the Earth.
UNIT II
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY:-
Forms of Igneous rocks - Primary structures of Sediementary
rocks - Types of folds - types of faults - Types of
unconformity - Clinometer compass and its uses.
UNIT III
STRATIGRAPHY:-
Principles of Stratigraphy - Correlation - Geological
Time scale - General characterisitcs and descriptive
study of the Archaean, Cuddapah, Vindhyan and Gondwana
systems of Peninsular India - Cretaceous system of Tamil
Nadu.
UNIT IV
PALEONTOLOGY:-
Modes of preservation of fossils - Uses of fossils -
Morphological characters of the following groups:- Lamellibrachia,
Gasteropodis, Cephalopds, Brachiopods and Triobites.
UNIT V
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:-
Definition of Crystal - Faces - Forms - Interfacial
angle - Symmetry - crystallographic axes - Laws of crystallography
- Study of the Normal classes of six systems.
UNIT VI
MINERALOGY:-
Petrological microscope, parts, accessories and uses
- Physical properties of minerals - Descriptive study
of the following:- Quartz and its varities, Feldspar,
Pyroxene, Amphibole, Mica, Garnet - Andalusite, Kyanite,
Sillimanite.
UNIT VII
IGNEOUS PETROLOGY:-
Textures and Microstructures of Igneous rocks - Classification
Bowen's reaction principle - Descriptive study of the
following:- Granite, Syenite, Diorite, Gabbro and Ultramafies
- Differentiation and Assimilation.
UNIT VIII
SEDIMENTARY AND METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY:-
Classification of Sedimentary rocks - Descriptive study
of Residual, Clastic and Organic deposits. Agents and
kinds of metamorphism - Study of Greenschists, Amphibolites
and Charnockites.
UNIT IX
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY -I :-
Definition of Ore, Tenor, Gangue - Bateman's classification
of Ore deposits - Study of the following processes:-
Magmatic concentration, Hydrothermal, Evaporation, Placer
Deposits and Oxidation and Supergene Enrichment - Origin
and Occurrence of Coal and petroleum in Iindia.
UNIT X
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY - II:-
Study of properties, mode of occurrence, Uses and Distribution
in India of the following:- Gold, Iron, Aluminium and
Copper. - Descriptive study and uses of the following:-
Magnesite, Clay, Calcite and Phosphatic nodules.
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