Course title: Principles of Geology (Compulsory) 

Course number: 0460100  

Credits: 3-3-4  

Prerequisite: None 

Category: Geology Students Only 

Introduction to the principles of physical geology. Earth material. Minerals and their properties. Rocks and their properties. Rock and tectonic cycles. Magmatic rocks. Volcanism and extrusive rocks. Plutonic rocks and intrusive activities. Sedimentation and sedimentary rocks. Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks. Weathering, rock decay and soils. Relative and absolute time and the time scale. Erosion, mass wastage and surface processes. Streams and landscape sculpture. Ground water. Deserts and wind action. Glaciation and glaciers. Waves and shorelines. Deformation and geologic structures. Seismology, earthquakes and earth interior. Plate tectonics, sea floor, large-scale structures and mountain belts. Natural resources and hazards. 

Course Title: Physical Geology 

Course Number: 0460101 

Credits: 2-3-3

Prerequisite: None

Category: Sciences, engineering and educations students only

Introduction to earth sciences. Study of minerals and rocks. Weathering, gents of erosion, deposition and formation of sedimentary rocks. Earth interior and formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Rock deformation and accompanied large scale tectonics. Earthquakes, volcanoes and a synthesis of plate tectonics. Natural resources. Geologic time scale.

Course title: Historical Geology (Compulsory) 

Course number: 0460102 

Credits: 2-3-3 

Prerequisite: Geo. 100 or Geo. 101  

Category: Sciences, engineering and education students only 

Theories of earth and solar system. Methods of measuring geologic time. Overall scheme of earth and life evolution by examining organic and non-organic record from Precambrian to present. Concepts of plate tectonics and continental drift. Laboratory work emphasizes the interpretation of geologic maps and description and use of fossils. 

Course title: Mineralogy and Crystallography 

Course number: 0460105

Credits: 1-3-2

Prerequisite: Geo. 101

Category: Non-Geology students only

Fundamentals of crystallography and mineralogy. Basic concepts of mineral chemistry. Physical properties and identification of minerals. Hand specimen identification. Systematic survey of major rock-forming minerals with emphasis on silicates. Introduction to optical mineralogy and use of the petrographic microscope.

Course title: Mineralogy (Compulsory)  

Course number: 0460107 

Credits: 2-3-3 

Prerequisite: Geo. 100 

Category: Geology students only 

Introduction to crystallography and mineralogy.  Crystal systems and classes.  Fundamental concepts of mineral chemistry. Classification of minerals by crystal systems and chemical groups. Physical properties and identification. Identification of mineral hand specimens. Systematic survey of major rock-forming mineral groups, with emphasis on silicates, carbonates and oxides.  Basics of quantitative mineralogy. 

الارض و الكون

موارد الارض الطبيعيه

الارض المتغيرة

Course title: General Petrology (Compulsory) 

Course number: 0460201 

Credits: 1-3-2 

Prerequisite: Geo. 105 or Geo. 107 

An introduction to igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, with emphasis on their hand specimen description and identification. Classification. A brief treatment of formation of rocks. 

Course title: Invertebrates Paleontology (Compulsory)

Course number: 0460206

Credits: 2-3-3

Prerequisite: Geo. 102 (2010 and before); Geo. 201 (post 2010)

Nature of fossils. Types of fossilization. Diversity and value of fossils. Systematic study of the main invertebrate groups with emphasis on the morphology of hard parts, their geologic history, as well as their ecology and evolution.

موارد الارض الطبيعيه

معادن بصرية

Course title: Mineral Optics (Compulsory)  

Course number: 0460252 

Credits: 2-3-3 

Prerequisite: Geo. 201 

Category: Geology students only 

Introduction to mineral optics. Light waves and properties of light. Crystals as light modifiers. Interaction of light with minerals of different crystal systems. Optical properties of minerals. Study of minerals by the transmitted light polarizing microscope. Systematic study of major rock-forming mineral groups under the polarizing microscope.   

Course title: Structural Geology (Compulsory)  

Course number: 0460301 

Credits: 2-3-3 

Prerequisite: Geo. 201 and Geo. 208 

Behavior of rocks and deformational conditions. Stresses and strains. Mechanisms of deformation. Deformational structures – joints, faults, folds, foliations and lineations. Descriptive, geometrical, kinematic and dynamic analysis of deformational structures. Nature and significance of shear zones. Polyphase deformational structures. Plate tectonics. Intrusive and extrusive structures. Impact structures. 

FIELD GEOLOGY

جيو فيزياء

دراسةمذهب فيلسوف اوروبى

جيولوجيا اقتصاديه

جيوكيمياء

ج .ت وجيومورفولوجيا

Course title: Computer Applications in Subsurface Geology (Elective)

Course number: 0460321

Credits: 3-3-2

Prerequisite: Geo. 301

Storage and retrieval of subsurface data in well databases. Data retrieval with the help of geographic base maps. Computer reduction of subsurface information in form of stratigraphic columns, composite logs, and correlation and fence diagrams. Interpretation of dip meter and image logs. Borehole deviation. Interpretation of seismic sections. Construction of structural contour, isopach and facies maps by computers. 

جيولوجيا البترول للهندسه

جيولوجيا تحت سطحيه للهندسه

Sedimentary Petrology

Course title: Petroleum Geology of the Middle East

Course number: 0460351

Credits: 3-0-3

Prerequisite: None

Category: Education students only

Origin, formation, migration and collection of petroleum. Principles of oil reservoirs and rocks. Fluid flow and oil traps. Exploration, development and production of oil. Regional geology, stratigraphy, and tectonics of the Middle East. Properties of oil fields with examples from Kuwait. Proven oil reserves and future potentials. Oil industries in the Middle East.

سجلات الابار( للهندسه)

مختبر سجلات الابار(للهندسه)

جيو فيزياء

مبادىء الجيولوجيا الكمية

بيئات وسحنات رسوبيه

مبادىءعلم الهزات الارضية

جيولوجيا شبه الجزيزة العربيه

جيولوجيا البترول للهندسه

جيولوجيا المياه

جيولوجيا هندسيه

جيولوجيا البحار

تكتونيات الصفائح

صخور ناريه و متحوله

جيولوجيا حقليه خاصه

تقرير علمى

جيو فيزيائيه تطبيقيه