Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MNE 104 — Physical Geology and Earth History

2 units · MNE department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Planet Earth - its composition from core to crust. Weathering and other surface processes- principles, agents: - physical, biotic, chemical processes. Landforms and major earth structures: principles and processes of erosion, transportation, sedimentation and evolution of landforms. Water current, wind, gravity and glacial ice as agents of erosion and their deposition landforms. Ocean processes- turbidity currents and turbidites. Deformation processes and structures- joints, faults and folds; classification of faults and folds. Igneous intrusions: -discordant and concordant intrusion. Concordant and discordant intrusion – sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, dykes, cone sheet, batholiths, plugs, stocks, bosses, veins, etc. Earth resources – waters, energy and minerals. Minerals and rocks -origin, distribution, identification and general classification. Practical identification of common rock – forming minerals and rocks. 200 Level

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MNE 104.

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