{"id":13912,"date":"2013-02-04T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T06:31:53","slug":"iit-kanpur-syllabus-engineering-geosciences-civil-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kanpur-syllabus-engineering-geosciences-civil-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences Civil Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences<\/h1>\n

Civil Engineering<\/h1>\n

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<\/a>CE 321: Engineering Geosciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Course content<\/strong>: \u00a0<\/strong>Introduction to geosciences in civil engineering, Plate tectonics (Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, types of plates and plate motion); Introduction to rock forming minerals (silicate structure, physical and chemical properties of minerals); Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks (texture; engineering properties); Geological Structures (fold, fault, joint, unconformity; engineering applications); Seismology and Earthquakes, magnitude and intensity, seismic hazard, earthquake prediction; Types of mass wasting events; Geological time scale and principles of stratigraphy; Weathering and soil formation; Surface processes and landforms (rivers, coastal, and groundwater), Environmental geology; Geology of India, Criteria for site selection of dams, tunnels, waste disposal.<\/p>\n

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  1. Understanding Earth (5th edition) by Grotzinger, Jordan, Press and Siever, Freeman and Company.<\/li>\n
  2. Geology Applied to Engineering by Terry West, Prentice Hall.<\/li>\n
  3. Dynamic of Earth by Skinner and Porter<\/li>\n
  4. Structural Geology by M. P. Billings<\/li>\n
  5. Essentials of Geology by Frederick Lutgens<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences Civil Engineering \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CE 321: Engineering Geosciences Course content: \u00a0Introduction to geosciences in civil engineering, Plate tectonics (Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, types of plates and plate motion); Introduction to rock forming minerals (silicate structure, physical and chemical properties of minerals); Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks (texture; engineering … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[4927,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}