Friday, September 26, 2008

Introduction to Geology

Geology – study of planet earth, its origin, history, composition, structure and dynamics of how it changes.

The term ‘Geology’ has been derived from the Greek words Geo + logos where Geo means Earth and logos means discourse (study or science).

Geology – event formed during geological time involving interpretation and observation of event occurred and still occurring at present in earth.

Geological process occurred during very large span of geological time left their record in rocks.

Engineering geology is a subfield of geological study concerning about the geological inputs and the uses of the information to solve the engineering problems.

It exists solely to serve art and science of engineering through description of the structure and attributes of rocks connected with engineering works (Goodman,1993).

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