Geology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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Engineering Geology
  • Engineering Geology

  • Summary • 3 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes explaining how geological structures affect engineering practice, types of foundations, tunnels, shrinking and swelling of clay, radon gas, brownfield sites and remediation
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Water Supply and Waste Disposal
  • Water Supply and Waste Disposal

  • Summary • 4 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes explaining groundwater supply, Darcy's Law, problems with over extraction of groundwater, water quality and groundwater pollution, and waste disposal
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Mass Movement Hazards
  • Mass Movement Hazards

  • Summary • 3 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes explaining porosity and permeability (and the factors affecting them), types of mass movement, mechanisms and triggers for mass movement, monitoring techniques and methods of controlling mass movement
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Earthquake Hazards
  • Earthquake Hazards

  • Summary • 5 pages • 2020
  • Extensive notes explaining the types of seismic wave, elastic rebound theory, Mercalli and Moment Magnitude Scales, effects of an earthquake, factors affecting the risk of damage to property and loss of life, earthquake precursors, geohazards, seismic risk and return period, and earthquake and tsunami management strategies
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Deformation - Unconformities, Folds and Faults
  • Deformation - Unconformities, Folds and Faults

  • Summary • 4 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes explaining stress-strain graphs, factors affecting stress and strain, unconformities, folding, and faults (dip-slip and strike-slip)
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Earth Materials and Natural Resources
  • Earth Materials and Natural Resources

  • Summary • 11 pages • 2020
  • Extensive notes explaining the environments, formation, extraction, prospecting techniques, hazards and environmental considerations of coal, hydrocarbons, metallic ores, igneous associations, sedimentary associations and non-metallic minerals
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Metamorphism
  • Metamorphism

  • Summary • 7 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes describing factors controlling metamorphic processes, metamorphic environments (dynamic, burial, contact and regional), chemical equilibrium changes during metamorphism, metamorphic structures and textures and pressure-temperature-time graphs
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Deformation
  • Deformation

  • Summary • 4 pages • 2020
  • Notes describing factors affecting rock behaviour, principal stress orientations of different types of faults, fault indicators, folding mechanisms, cleavage-bedding relationships, fault reactivation, and interpreting block diagrams and maps
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Igneous Rocks and Processes
  • Igneous Rocks and Processes

  • Summary • 6 pages • 2020
  • In-depth notes explaining the generation of magma at divergent boundaries, intraplate settings (hotspots) and convergent boundaries, the generation of granite, advanced radiometric dating, igneous bodies and igneous processes
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