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  • General

  • CONTACT

    Contact

    Teacher: Mahboubi Salamet 

    Contact: geology.tlemcen2022@gmail.com

    Coefficient: 1

    Credits: 2

    Evaluation method: continuous control and exam


    • Objectives

      ObjectivesThis course aims in helping the students: 

      • To know the basic of geology, its scope and its various branches 

      • To introduce fundamental aspects of Earth  and its related changes with time. 

      • To know the various processes of weathering and the processes resulting in their formation of soil

      • To understand composition of various minerals, rock and their properties.
      •  To develop a skills for application of geology to engineering problems.

      • Pre-requisites

        •  Understand the fundamental of geology.  
        •  Learn about the magmatic differentiation processes,
        •  Understand the diversity of igneous rocks and the variety of tectonic environments for their emplacement,
        •   Understand the petrogenesis of igneous rocks

      • Course plan

        Chapter 1:  The rock cycle 

        Chapter 2: Sedimentary rocks and structures 

        Chapter 3: Ground water 

        Chapter 4: Mineralogy   


        • Chapter 1: THE ROCK CYCLE

          Rocks tell the story of the Earth



        • Chapter 2: SEDIMENTARY ROCK AND STRUCTURES: 

          Weathering decomposes bedrocks. Flowing water, wind, gravity, and glaciers then erode the decomposed rocks, transport them downslopes and finally deposit them on the sea coast. Finally, the loose sediment is cemented to form hard sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rocks make up only about 5 percent of the Earth’s crust, but cover about 75 percent of the surface of the continents.


          • Translation : Read the following passage and translate into French language. Workshop

            Depositional environments

            Geologists study sedimentary rocks to help us understand the past. When geologists study sedimentary rocks, they ask questions such as: Where did the sediment originate? Was the sediment transported by a stream, wind, or a glacier? In what environment did the sediment accumulate?. If it was deposited in the sea, was it on a beach or in deep water? If it was deposited on land, was it in a lake, a stream bed, or a flood plain?

            Geologists answer these questions by analyzing the minerals, textures, and structures of sedimentary rocks. Additionally, the size and shape of a sedimentary rock layer contain clues to its depositional environment.Accurate interpretations of depositional environments are often profitable, because valuable concentrations of oil and gas, coal, evaporites, and metals form in certain types of environments. Depositional environments vary greatly in scale, from an entire ocean basin to a 3-meter-long sand bar in a stream. Many small-scale environments may be active within a single large-scale depositional system


        • Chapter 3: Ground water

          TECHNICAL WORDS:

          1. ground water

          2. percolation

          3. fresh water

          4. porosity

          5. permeability

          6. water table

          7. saturated zone

          8. saturation zone

          9. unsaturated zone

          10. zone of aeration

          11. aquifer

          12. well

          13. cone of depression

          14. subsidence

          15. salt-water intrusion

          16. cave

          17. stalactite

          18. stalagmite

        • Chapter 4: Mineralogy

          What is a mineral?

          A naturally occurring substance with a characteristic chemical composition expressed by a chemical formula; may occur as individual crystals or may be disseminated in some other mineral or rock. Most mineralogists include the requirements of inorganic origin and internal crystalline structure. Minerals are the building blocks of the Earth. For example, SiO2 is always the mineral quartz which consists of only two elements. A few elements - carbon, for example - are the only components of minerals. Graphite and diamond are composed only of carbon, each with a different architecture. A rock is a solid material  that is composed of various minerals. Chemical composition and crystalline structure are the two most important properties of a mineral. They distinguish any mineral from all others. 

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