18/7/2016

CE 204 ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

EXERCISE NO: 1 AND 2
EXERCISE NO: 1
1 Define following terms:
# Mineral and rock
# Primary and Secondary Minerals
# Rock forming minerals and Ore Minerals
2 Give examples of rock forming and Ore minerals.
3 How minerals are formed in nature?
4. Water is not a mineral. Coal is not a mineral. Comment
5. How rocks are formed in nature?
6 How minerals are identified?
7 How the rock identified in the nature.
8 Enlist Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic rocks.
EXERCISE: 2
9 Enlist the physical properties of the minerals.
1 Define the following terms: Color, streak, luster, Cleavage, Specific
0 Gravity, Hardness
1 Write Moh’s scale of Hardness.
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1 Write types of luster, fracture.
2
1 Write about the structure property of mineral.
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1 How density differs from Specific gravity?
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1 What are the various method of determining Specific gravity of
5 mineral?
1 How specific gravity can be determined? Explain one method.
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1 Enlist various minerals and write their chemical compositions.
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1 Streak is a diagnostic property. How?
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1 How Hardness differs from Strength of material?
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2 What are important points should be remembered in hardness
0 property of the mineral?
CE:204, Engineering Geology study material