JEO 438 - Environmental Geology

Course Objectives

1. To provide the basic concepts and relation with other disciplines of Environmental Geology
2. To provide environmental contamination and classification of contaminant types
3. To provide laws and regulations related with environment

Course Description

Description of environmental geology, basic concepts and its relations with other disciplines.
Contamination and types of contaminants, natural disasters (earthquakes, mass movements,
volcanoes, floods, etc.). Mining activities, their environmental problems, and Reclamation and
rehabilitation studies. Waste (house, industrial, radioactive) and disposal methods, water
resources, their contamination and protection areas, analysis of contamination and tracing
methods, geological factors controlling land-use suitability, laws and regulations of environment