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    The document outlines the key topics covered in a geology course, including: - The origin and composition of the Earth, plate tectonics, dating rocks, volcanism, earthquakes, and gravity. - Weathering, erosion, soil formation, and landforms resulting from wind, ice, rivers, and seas. - Structural features of rocks like folds, faults, joints, and methods of geological mapping and interpretation. - Evolution of life as seen through the fossil record, important fossil groups, and using fossils for dating and paleoenvironmental analysis.

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    The document outlines the key topics covered in a geology course, including: - The origin and composition of the Earth, plate tectonics, dating rocks, volcanism, earthquakes, and gravity. - Weathering, erosion, soil formation, and landforms resulting from wind, ice, rivers, and seas. - Structural features of rocks like folds, faults, joints, and methods of geological mapping and interpretation. - Evolution of life as seen through the fossil record, important fossil groups, and using fossils for dating and paleoenvironmental analysis.

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    The document outlines the key topics covered in a geology course, including: - The origin and composition of the Earth, plate tectonics, dating rocks, volcanism, earthquakes, and gravity. - Weathering, erosion, soil formation, and landforms resulting from wind, ice, rivers, and seas. - Structural features of rocks like folds, faults, joints, and methods of geological mapping and interpretation. - Evolution of life as seen through the fossil record, important fossil groups, and using fossils for dating and paleoenvironmental analysis.

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    GEOLOGY (GG)

    The Planet Earth: Origin of the Solar System and the Earth; Geosphere and the composition of
    the Earth; Shape and size of the Earth; Earth-Moon system; Dating rocks and age of the Earth;
    Volcanism and volcanic landforms; Interior of the Earth; Earthquakes; Earth’s magnetism and
    gravity, Isostasy; Basic elements of Plate Tectonics; Orogenic cycles.
    Geomorphology: Weathering and erosion; Soil formation; Transportation and deposition by
    wind, ice, river, sea and resulting landforms.
    Structural Geology: Orientation of planes and lines in space – concept of dip, strike, rake and

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    plunge. Contour lines; Rule of ‘V’s and outcrop patterns; Interpretation of geological maps and
    cross-section construction; Classification and origin of folds, faults, joints, unconformities,
    foliations and lineations; Stereographic and equal-area projections of planes and lines; Numerical
    problems related to outcrop and bore-hole data.
    Paleontology: Major steps in the evolution of life forms; Fossils, their mode of preservation and
    utility in age determination and paleoenvironmental interpretations; Morphology, major
    evolutionary trends and ages of important groups of animals – Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Trilobita,
    Graptolitoidea, Anthozoa, Echinodermata; Gondwana plant fossils; Elementary idea of vertebrate
    fossils in India.
    Stratigraphy: Principles of stratigraphy; Litho-, Chrono- and biostratigraphic classification;
    Stratigraphic correlation techniques; Archaean cratons of Peninsular India (Dharwar, Singhbhum
    and Aravalli); Proterozoic mobile belts; Stratigraphy of Cuddapah and Vindhyan basins;
    Stratigraphy of Paleozoic – Mesozoic of Spiti and Kashmir, Gondwana Supergroup, Jurassic of
    Kutch, Cretaceous of Trichinopoly, Tertiary and Quaternary sequences of Assam, Bengal and
    Siwaliks.
    Mineralogy: Symmetry and forms in common crystal classes; Physical properties of minerals;
    Isomorphism, polymorphism, solid solution and exsolution; Classification of minerals; Structure of
    silicates; Mineralogy of common rock-forming minerals; Elements of Optical Mineralogy, Optical
    properties of common rock-forming minerals.
    Petrology: Definition and classification of rocks; Igneous rocks – forms of igneous bodies;
    Processes of evolution and diversification of magma; Classification, association, and genesis of
    common igneous rocks. Sedimentary rocks – classification, texture, and structure; Petrology of
    sandstone and limestone; Elements of sedimentary environments and facies. Metamorphic rocks
    – classification and texture; Types of metamorphism; Controls on metamorphism – pressure,
    GEOLOGY

    temperature and fluids; Concept of projections – ACF, AKF and AFM diagrams; Phase Rule and
    its applications; Concepts of zones and facies, Characteristic mineral assemblages of pelites in
    the Barrovian zones and mafic rocks in common facies.
    Economic Geology: Physical properties of common economic minerals; General processes of
    formation of mineral deposits; Mode of occurrence and distribution of metallic and non-metallic
    mineral deposits in India; Fundamentals of reserve calculation; Elements of coal and hydrocarbon
    geology, Coal and hydrocarbon occurrences in India.
    Applied Geology: Groundwater and hydrological cycle, Types of aquifers, porosity and
    permeability; Principles of engineering geology; Geological considerations in construction of dams
    and tunnels.

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