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Civil Engineering Importance of Petrology

Petrology is important for civil engineering as it provides an understanding of physical rock properties and allows interpretation of texture, structure, mineral and chemical composition of individual rocks. Understanding rock properties is crucial because different rock types are suitable for different purposes. Studying rocks also provides information about the composition of the Earth's crust and mantle, and rocks can be dated to reconstruct geological time sequences. Many rocks also contain valuable mineral resources.

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Civil Engineering Importance of Petrology

Petrology is important for civil engineering as it provides an understanding of physical rock properties and allows interpretation of texture, structure, mineral and chemical composition of individual rocks. Understanding rock properties is crucial because different rock types are suitable for different purposes. Studying rocks also provides information about the composition of the Earth's crust and mantle, and rocks can be dated to reconstruct geological time sequences. Many rocks also contain valuable mineral resources.

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Civil

Engineering
Importance
of Petrology
Civil Engineering
Importance of Petrology

Petrology is very important


from the civil engineering
point of view, because this
provides a proper concept and
logical basis for interpreting
physical properties.
It provides an opportunity to
interpret the physical
properties of individual rocks,
likewise; texture, structure,
mineral composition, and
chemical composition of rocks.
Properties of rocks are very
important for Civil
Engineering to know because
different rocks are suitable
for different purposes and no
rock is ideal or best suited for
all purpose.
Significance of Studying
Rocks

Their minerals and


global chemistry
provide information
about the composition
of the Earths crust and
mantle.
Their ages can be calculated
by various methods of
radiometric dating, and a
time sequence of geological
events can be put together.

Many rocks host important


ores that provide valuable
raw materials that we rely
on for our sustenance and
technological development.
Rock-Cut Architecture
Rock-Cut Architecture
Rock-cut Architecture is the creation
of structures, buildings, and
sculptures, by excavating
solidrockwhere it naturally occurs. It
is designed and made by man from
the start to finish. . The three main
uses of rock-cut architecture
weretemples,tombs,and cave
dwellings.
The Buddhist Carpenters
Cave, India
Rock-cut Temple in Turkey
The Treasury in Jordan
Rock-cut Church in
Ethiopia
Breakwaters
Aggregates
Granite
Limestone

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