Credit Weight: 0.5 Prerequisite(s): Geology 3015 or 1110 or 1130 or permission of the Chair of the Department Description: Specific topics concerned with problems and materials encountered by Civil and Environmental Engineers. Topics discussed may include: application of geometrical techniques to the solution of problems in structural geology, quarrying and mining; natural radioactivity, its causes and consequences (radon, groundwater chemistry); applications of mineralogical and geological principles to radioactive waste disposal; origin and nature of some industrial minerals (diamond, graphite, salt, gypsum, asbestos, silica); the mineralogy, composition and stability of natural and synthetic silicate and carbonate constructional materials (granite, sandstone, bricks, Portland cement). Offering: 0-0; 3-0 Notes: Not for credit in the MSc, HBSc or BSc Geology programs.
