Introduction, identification and classification of rocks and minerals
Course Material
- Introduction and scope of geology
- Importance and relationship with other sciences
- History and philosophy of geology
- Earth as a member of the solar system; its origin, age, composition and internal structure
- Introduction to plate tectonics
- Isostasy; mountain building processes
- Earthquakes and volcanoes
- Weathering and erosion
- Introduction, identification and classification of rocks and minerals
- Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic structures
- Introduction to fossils in sedimentary rocks
- Introduction to folds, faults, joints, cleavage, foliation, lineation and unconformities
- Geological Time Scale
- Law of Superposition, present is key to the past and Law of Faunal Succession
- Concept and techniques of geological dating, relative and absolute dating
- Evolution of life on earth
- Use of Brunton Compass and GPS, etc.
- Chapters 17
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
