JNTUH B.Tech 2nd year General Geology gives you detail General Geology Engineering R13 year subject. It will be help full you to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
Objective
To expose the students to different geological environments, which relate to petroleum industry
UNIT-I
Dimensions of earth, structure, composition and origin of earth-envelops of the Earth- crust, mantle, core. Internal dynamic process- Plate tectonics- continental drift, Earthquake and volcanoes. External dynamic process- weathering, erosion and deposition.
UNIT-II
Fundamental concepts in Geomorphology-geomorphic processes distribution of landforms-drainage patterns – development, Landforms in relation to rocks types, paleochannels, buried channels.
UNIT-III
Geological work of rivers, wind, Ocean and glaciers and the land forms created by them.
TEXT BOOK
Engineering Geology, F.G.Bell, 2nd Edition, ButterworthHeimann,2007.
REFERENCE BOOKS
- Text book of Geology, P.K Mukharjee, The World Press Pvt Ltd.,Calcutta, 2005.
- Rutleys Elements of Mineralogy, 27 Ed., N.H.Read, Allen & Unwin Australia 1988.
Outcome
- The student would understand the basics of geology, viz: formation of earth, layers of earth, different types of rocks, formation of sedimentary basins and the micro fossils and their relationship to oil and gas.
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