Syllabus
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Course Code: G-202 Course Name: Structural Geology and Tectonics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Mechanical principles and properties of rocks and their controlling factors. Theory of rock failure. Concept of stress and strain and their relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials. Strain markers in naturally deformed rocks. Behavior of minerals and rocks under deformation conditions. | |
| 2 | Fold: mechanics of folding and buckling. Fractures and joints: their nomenclature, age relationship, origin and significance. Causes and dynamics of faulting, strike-slip faults, normal faults, over thrust and nappe. Planar and linear fabrics in deformed rocks, their origin and significance. Structural behavior of diapirs and salt domes. |
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| 3 | Concept of petro-fabrics and symmetry: objective, field and laboratory techniques and types of fabrics. Time relationship between crystallization and deformation. |
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| 4 | Major tectonic division of Himalaya, collision of India with Asia, evolution of volcanic island arc, Indus- suture zone, emergence and evolution of Himalaya, orogeny, fore arc basin and back arc basin. Study of stereographic projection. |
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