{"id":13960,"date":"2013-02-02T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=13960"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:30:29","slug":"iit-kanpur-syllabus-b-tech-civil-engineering-physical-and-environmental-geology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kanpur-syllabus-b-tech-civil-engineering-physical-and-environmental-geology\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kanpur Syllabus Civil Engineering Physical and Environmental Geology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0IIT Kanpur\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Syllabus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0Physical and Environmental Geology\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Civil Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><strong>CE 422:\u00a0\u00a0Physical and Environmental Geology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course content: <\/strong>Earth as a system; Fundamental concepts in environmental geology, population dynamics and its impact;\u00a0Geological cycles- rock and hydrological cycle; Soil and environment (profile, classification, soil types of India, soil pollution and remediation); Natural Hazards (flooding, landslides, volcanism, coastal, earthquake) and environmental degradation; Surface and ground water system&amp; management; Surface and groundwater system and management, Water pollution and remediation, Waste management (solid, liquid and radioactive waste); Atmospheric processes and related hazards &#8211; cyclones and hurricanes; Geochemical cycles \u2013 carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous; Life on Earth &#8211; ecosystem and biodiversity; Earth\u2019s Energy balance, green house effect, and global warming; Human role in environmental changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested text and reference material:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Keller, Edward (2005). Introduction to Environmental geology, Prentice Hall.<\/li>\n<li>Merrits, D.,\u00a0Dewet, A. and\u00a0Menking, K., (1998) Environmental geology; an earth system science approach, Freeman<\/li>\n<li>Skinner, B.J. and Porter, S.C. (2000) The Dynamic Earth, John Wiley<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>. \u00a0Wicadner, R. &amp;Monore, J.S. (1999) Essentials of Geology, Wadsworth Pub. Co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0IIT Kanpur\u00a0Syllabus \u00a0Physical and Environmental Geology\u00a0 Civil Engineering CE 422:\u00a0\u00a0Physical and Environmental Geology Course content: Earth as a system; Fundamental concepts in environmental geology, population dynamics and its impact;\u00a0Geological cycles- rock and hydrological cycle; Soil and environment (profile, classification, soil types of India, soil pollution and remediation); Natural Hazards (flooding, landslides, volcanism, coastal, earthquake) and &#8230; <a title=\"IIT Kanpur Syllabus Civil Engineering Physical and Environmental Geology\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/iit-kanpur-syllabus-b-tech-civil-engineering-physical-and-environmental-geology\/\" aria-label=\"More on IIT Kanpur Syllabus Civil Engineering Physical and Environmental Geology\">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":[1,4927],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960"}],"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=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115937,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions\/115937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}