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INTRODUCTION
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Geology plays a very important role in the field of
civil engineering.
It provides knowledge about
materials used for construction.
Its knowledge is helpful for constructing dams.
Geotechnical engineers needs knowledge about
this subject for excavation work (digging work).
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Its knowledge is required for foundation faults.
For design of highways and roads.
In construction of tunnels.
Soil tests are done before any project.
Its knowledge is helpful for river control and
shipping work.
Nature of soil materials can be find out.
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GEOLOGY
Geology is the science of the earth
GEO=Earth, LOGY=Study of
science
• It deal with the study of Origin , age, interior structure,
and history of earth
• Evolution and modification of various surface
features like rivers, mountains and Lakes.
• Material make ups the earth.
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Main and Allied Branch of Geology
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Physical Geology
This is also called as Dynamic geology or Geomorphology.
Physical Geology deals with the different Physical feature of
the earth such as Mountain, rivers, lakes, glaciers and
volcanoes.
It also deals with different changes occurs on earth surface
like marine, formation or disappearance of rivers, spring and
lakes.
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Physical Geology
Natural phenomenalike
weathering.
land slides, earth quake
and
1. Andes Mountains of
South America formed
at the convergent
boundary of
the Nazca and
South the
plates. American
Types of Plate Boundaries
Plates collide = convergent boundary.
2.Himalayan
Mountains Asia
in
were formed
the Indo-Australian
when
Plate collided with the
Eurasian Plate.
Types of Plate Boundaries
Types of Plate Boundaries
Plates separate = divergent boundary
As the plates
pulled
areapart, magma
is extracted from the
mantle to fill in the
void. The magma
cools and records the
magnetic field
characteristics
.crust is formedNew
at Divergent
Boundaries.
Types of Plate Boundaries
Plates separate = divergent boundary
Transform are
margins conservative
in the sense
that along these
margins material is
translated, ornot
created
destroyed.
Faulting
along transform
margins is strike-slip.
Types of Plate Boundaries
Plates slide past one another = transform boundary.