UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOINFORMATICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Allied Subject I - Geology - I

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 75
Credits: 3

UNIT I Physical Geology

Origin of the Earth - Age of the Earth - Interior of the earth - Earthquakes: Definition - Effects - Causes - Volcanoes: Distribution - Causes - Effect of volcanic eruptions - Geological work of Running water and Underground water.

UNIT II Structural Geology

Introduction to Structural geology: Topographic maps - Geologic maps - Outcrops and their trends with Reference to slope and topography - Clinometer compass and its uses - Brief Study of Folds - Faults - Unconformities - Joints

UNIT III Stratigraphy

Principles of Stratigraphy - Standard stratigraphic scale - Contemporaneity - Homotaxis - Physiographic divisions of India - Brief study of Archaean rocks - Cuddapah - Vindhyans - Gondwanas - Trassic of Spiti - Jurassic of Kutch - Cretaceous succession of Tiruchirappalli and Pondicherry - Bagh beds of Narmada valley - Lameta beds - Deccan traps - Origin - Composition - Distribution - Age - Siwaliks.

UNIT IV Paleontology

Definition of fossil - Nature and modes of preservation of fossils - Uses of fossils - Brief study of Corals - Echinoids - Crinoids - Pelecypods - Cephalopods - Brachiopods - Trilobites - Graptolites - Gondwana flora of India - An outline of the uses of Micropaleontology.

UNIT V Mineralogy

Physical properties of minerals - Brief study of the following rock forming minerals - Feldspar group - Amphibole group - Pyroxene group - Olivine group - Quartz group - Mica group - Garnet group.

Books Recommended

Principles of Physical Geology by Arthur Holmes, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., London, 1965.

Introduction to Physical Geology by A.K. Datta, Kalyani Pub., New Deihi-Ludhiana, 1981.

Structural Geology by Marland Billings, Prentice Hall, India, 1984.

General Geology by R.J. Foster, Merrill Pub. Co., London, 1988.

Physical Geology by L. Donald Leet and Sheldon Judson, Prentice Hall, India.

General Geology by Radhakrishnan.

Geology of India by D.N. Wadia, Mc Millan, London,1957.

Stratigraphic Principles and Practice by J.M. Weller, Harper and Brothers Pub., New York, 1960.

Invertebrate Palaeontology by Henry Woods, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967.

Geology of India and Burma by M.S, Krishnan, CBS Publishers and Distributiors, New Delhi, 1982.

Fundamentals of Historical Geology and Stratigraphy of India by Ravindra Kumar, Wilely Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1985.

Invertebrate Paleontology by Shrock and Twenhofel.

Dana's Manual of Mineralogy by Cornelius S. Huribut, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1959.

An Introduction to Rock-forming Minerals by WA. Deer, R.A. Howie and J. Zussman, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1979.

Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy by C.D. Gribble, 27^th Edition, Unwin Hyman, London, 1988.

Dana’s Text Book of Mineralogy by WE. Ford. 4^th Edition, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi, 1992.