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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

Sedimentary basins and depositional inferences about the conditions of Earth.
systems. Characteristics of source rocks The changing paleogeography and the
and reservoir rocks. Subsurface mapping, events that occurred during the respective
methods, tools and petrophysical geologic times. The relationship between
evaluation in hydrocarbon exploration & life and the sediments, the oceans, and the
production. Main hydrocarbon provinces atmosphere of the planet.
and selected case studies.
Assessment Methods:
Assessment Methods: Continuous assessment: 40%
Continuous assessment: 40% Examination : 60%
Examination : 60%
SII3022 MINERAL AND MINING
SII3019 ORGANIC PETROLOGY EXPLORATION

Study of organic matter from the In this course, various types of mineral and
perspective of sedimentology and mining exploration techniques are
petroleum geology which include coal introduced. The course also covers
formation, petrographic composition of geochemical prospecting, mining policy
coal, origin of macerals, correlation of coal and act. Industrial applications are
facies with depositional environment, illustrated using case studies.
coalification process, vitrinite reflectance
analysis and kerogen typing. This also Assessment Methods:
includes studies on visual kerogen Continuous assessment: 40%
typing. Findings of this course will be used Examination : 60%
for applications in petroleum exploration
and coal-related industries. SII3023 GEOLOGICAL SITE
INVESTIGATION
Assessment Methods:
Continuous assessment: 40% Description, classification and
Examination : 60% characteristics of rock material, rock mass
and aggregates. Methods of engineering
SII3020 INDUSTRIAL MINERALS geological site investigation. Geological
Knowledge and awareness about the terrain mapping and analysis. Site
important and development of various investigations for various engineering
industrial mineral and other related structures and works.
mineral-based industries including clay
mineral. Broad aspects of industrial mineral Assessment Methods:
in term of geological occurrence, Continuous assessment: 40%
distribution, marketing, economic and Examination : 60%
application technology.
SII3024 UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND
Assessment Methods: GAS RESOURCES
Continuous assessment: 40%
Examination : 60% Unconventional resources reside in tight
formations and are of lower reservoir
SII3021 TECTONICS AND EARTH quality and more difficult from which to
HISTORY extract hydrocarbons. Unconventional
Introduction to the theory of Plate Tectonic. resources represent a variety of geological
Extensional, compressional and strike-slip formations, including tight gas sands, gas
tectonic regimes and their associated shales, heavy oil sands, coalbed methane,
regional structures. oil shales, and gas hydrates.
Evolution of Earth’s atmosphere,
lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. Assessment Methods:
Introduction to Archean, Proterozoic and Continuous assessment: 40%
Phanerozoic sequences, and their Examination : 60%

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