CCMAS Course Search

Exploitation of building subsoils; Open cuts and retaining walls; Foundation slopes and their stability; Engineering geological maps and their evaluation; Mining and tunneling - Theory and methods; Dams - types design and construction; Elements of a road pavement; Site investigation in engineering practice; Rock as a construction material; Laterite soils and black cotton soils - Distribution and nature; physical characteristics; chemistry and mineralogy; Structure and Engineering properties

Occurrence of groundwater; Groundwater recharge as part of hydrological cycle; Ground water and well hydraulics; Exploration for groundwater - remote sensing; geological and geophysical methods; Groundwater extraction - Perforation methods; Well completion; Well Development; Pumping Test; Water quality and purification; Artificial recharge of groundwater; salt-water intrusion in coastal aquifers; Problems of water resources planning and management in Nigeria

Definition and practical value of micropaleontology; Historical review of micropaleontology Development of Commercial Micropaleontology; Physical; Chemical and Biological factors of the non-marine and marine environments and their effects on micro-organisms; Environmental distribution of micro-organisms; Evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships within groups of micro-fossils; Ecology and paleoecological relationships or living morphological (particularly diagnostic) features of biostratigraphically and paleoecologically important taxa of foraminifera and ostracoda

Petrology origin; composition; texture and classification of carbonates; evaporates; Cherts; phosphates; iron-rich rocks and manganese deposit; Limestone diagenesis and dolomitisation; Textures; structures; mineralogy and chemical composition of terrigenous clastics; classification of sandstones; quartz types and origin; Relation of sandstone petrography to tectonics and sedimentation; diagenesis; Field and laboratory methods of study of sedimentary rocks x-ray analytical techniques

Principles of Stratigraphy; Types areas; boundary problems; Correlation; Stratigraphic nomenclature; Biostratigraphy and biostratigraphic refinement with emphasis on African examples

Stress in 2-dimensions; trajectories; Mohr diagram; Strain in 2 and 3 dimensions; Rheology; stress-strain relations of elastic; viscous and visco elastic materials; Geometric techniques of structural analysis; Projection techniques; Fracture analysis; Mapping techniques; Geotectonics; crustal morphology; world patterns; theories of orogenesis

Introduction to open channel flow - Chezy's and manning formulae; Tabular and laminar flow; Hydrological cycle - precipitation; evapotransporation; infiltration; Run off measurement of flow; Hydrograph analysis; Hydrological forecasting; Choice of dam sites and safety consideration of slopes; Drainage characteristic of Nigerian Rivers; Erosion problems in Nigeria

Study of types of Clay minerals; techniques for clay minerals determination; X-ray; D.T.A; Microscope; Environments of Clay mineral and diagenesis; Applied Clay mineralogy and industrial application

Electrical properties of earth material; Self potential and resistivity methods (theory; instruments; array systems; sounding and profiling and depth of investigation); Induced polarization methods in time and frequency domains; Electromagnetic methods (Magneto-telluric; dipole-dipole; Turam; large loop; transient and continuous wave; airborne etc); Applicability and field examples; Radioactive decay and equilibrium; Radioactivity of rocks; Geiger and Scintillation Counters; Gamma-ray spectrometers; Ground and airborne survey procedures; Field examples

Role of geophysics in mineral exploration; Basic physical laws; properties of rocks and minerals; instruments; field procedure; data acquisition; reduction and interpretation relating to gravity; magnetic; self potentials; resistivity; induced polarization; electromagnetic; seismic reflection and refraction; and radioactivity methods; Geophysical well logging; Applicability of various methods; field examples; relative cost and survey planning