WRE 203

• Course Number: WRE 203

• Course Title: Engineering Geology and Geomorphology

• Credit/Contact Hours: 3.0 (3.0 Hours/ Week)

• Level and Term: Level-2, Term-1

• Course Content:  Rocks and Minerals: identification of rocks and minerals, common rocks forming minerals, physical properties of minerals, mineraloids rocks, types of rocks, cycle of rock change. Structural geology: faults, types of faults, fold and fold type, domes, basin, erosional process, quantitative analysis of erosional landforms, earthquake and seismic map of Bangladesh, geology of Bangladesh.

Fluvial processes in Geomorphology: channel development, channel widening, valley shape, stream terraces, alluvial flood plains, deltas and alluvial fans, fluvial deposits, coastal deposits, glacial deposits, lacustrine deposits and aeolian deposits, river basin, geomorphologic characteristics of rivers of Bangladesh.

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Geology and Geomorphology 

• Lecture 2: Fluvial Geomorphology 

• Lecture 3: Drainage Basin Morphometry 

• Lecture 4: Geomorphic Characteristics of River of Bangladesh 

• Lecture 5: Glacial Deposits 

• Lecture 6: Aeolian Deposits 

• Lecture 7: Lacustrine Deposits