Course content:

• Earth (origin, shape and structure)
• Geologic materials (Rocks, soils and permafrost)
• Engineering Classification of rocks and soils
• Engineering Properties
• Earth’s Internal Environment
• Sources of Deformation
• Seismic Risk studies
• Selection of Sites for Dams and Tunnels
• Earthquakes, Subsidence, Landslides
• Various Geophysical techniques
• Resource mapping

• Quiz                                       15%
• Term Paper                            20%
• I Mid Semester Exam             15%
• II Mid Semester Exam            15%
• End Semester                          35%

Books:

• Engineering Properties of Rock Mass – F.G. Bell
• Geophysical Methods – P.V. Sharma
• Environmental Geophysics – P.V. Sharma
• Engineering Geology - Narayanswami
• Engineering Geology - Mathewson

Field Exercies

Use of GPS, Radiometer, Seismic, Resistivity  and Well logging methods will be demonstrated.
 

Term Paper:

Each student has to write a term paper based on remote sensing data acquistion, data analysis or literature review and they have to make power point presentation of their term paper for 30 minutes. The term paper has to be written in the form of a research paper consists of following heads:

Title, Author, Address, Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusions and References.

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