List of top Geo Engineering and Geo Informatics Questions

Which of the following materials is an example for aquitard?

For a fair rock, the Rock Quality Designation (RQD) in percentage varies from:

Which of the following minerals possesses more electrical resistivity?

Which of the following orientation of beds is most suitable for dam construction?

The absorption value of stones is estimated corresponding to the saturation period of:

For a stone to be used in road work, the coefficient of hardness as worked out from the hardness test should be:

In a Brazilian test, the rock specimen diameter shall preferably be:

The absolute refractive index for a mineral is defined as the refraction relative to that in air. Then its value for different minerals ranges between:

Olivine mineral chemical formula is:

The ratio of silicon to oxygen in pyroxenes is:

The basement rocks are often:

In which of the following shear zones, the physical break cannot be noticed?

Which of the following is not a correct statement?

Tectonites which allow the rock to split into plate-like sheets are called:

Which portion of the spherical projection does a mineralogist use for crystallographic analysis?

In which type of rock generally, the rock cleavage can be noticed?

The lineations which are formed due to shearing of rocks during asymmetric deformation of a rock mass are known as:

Thrusts are characterized by:

The line of maximum curvature on a folded surface is known as:

When denser sand sinks into less dense wet mud, the bulges formed at the bottom of a sandstone bed are called:

In an angular unconformity, the younger strata are oriented as:

The structure formed after the formation of host rock is called:

The size of coarse sand ranges between:

A soil has a void ratio of 0.50. Then its porosity is:

Which of the following soils have high permeability?