Crystallography:- Elements of crystal symmetry and forms. Laws of crystallography. Crystal systems and holohedral classes. Crystal habit and twinning-

Mineralogy:- Principles of optics, refractive index, birefringence, pleochroism and extinction. Uses of simple polarising microscope. Physical chemical and optical properties of minerals. Study of the more-common rock forming minerals, feldspars, quartz, amphiboles, pyroxenes,
chlorites, micas, garnets, carbonates.

Economic Geology:- Outline of process of formation of ore deposits, origin, mode of occurrence and distribution in India and economic uses of the following minerals and ores: gold, iron, copper, manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc, coal. petroleum, mica.

Part-III

Petrology:- Classification of rocks. Forms, structures, textures and classification of igneous rocks common igneous rocks such as granite, syenite, diorite, babrro, dolerite, basalt, trachyte, andesite and rhyolite.their petrographic characters, Magna-its composition, constitution and differentiation.

Origin, classification, textural and mineralogical characters of sedimentary rocks. structures of sedimentary rocks. Study of sandstone, conglomerate slate, limestone, breccia, tillite. Metamorphism-agents, kinds and grades of metamorphisim. Classification, structures and textures of metamorphic rocks. Study of schist, gneiss, marble amphibolite, charnockite, gondite, khondalite.

Part-IV

Stratigraphy:- Principles of Stratigraphy.Chrono- logical sub-divisions. Outlines of Indian Stratigraphy:

Palaontology:- Fossils, their nature, mode of preservation and uses. Study of important genera of invertebrates and plants e.g. brachiopods, gastropods lame, lubranchs. ammonilies, corals, trilobites and echinoides : Gondwana flora.