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    CV2501 Geology & Soil Mechanics Tutorial Sheet 1

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    This document provides a tutorial sheet with questions about geology and soil mechanics. The questions cover various topics including continental drift and UK geology, classifying and characterizing different soil types, the formation of igneous rocks like basalt and granite, sedimentary rocks and their depositional environments, types of weathering and their products, grading curves for soils, the rock cycle, sediment transportation and deposition, effects of sea level change on buried valleys, and longshore drift. It directs students to online notes and lecture recordings to find the answers.

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    This document provides a tutorial sheet with questions about geology and soil mechanics. The questions cover various topics including continental drift and UK geology, classifying and characterizing different soil types, the formation of igneous rocks like basalt and granite, sedimentary rocks and their depositional environments, types of weathering and their products, grading curves for soils, the rock cycle, sediment transportation and deposition, effects of sea level change on buried valleys, and longshore drift. It directs students to online notes and lecture recordings to find the answers.

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    CV2501 Geology & Soil Mechanics Tutorial Sheet 1

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    This document provides a tutorial sheet with questions about geology and soil mechanics. The questions cover various topics including continental drift and UK geology, classifying and characterizing different soil types, the formation of igneous rocks like basalt and granite, sedimentary rocks and their depositional environments, types of weathering and their products, grading curves for soils, the rock cycle, sediment transportation and deposition, effects of sea level change on buried valleys, and longshore drift. It directs students to online notes and lecture recordings to find the answers.

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    CV2501 Geology & Soil Mechanics

    Tutorial Sheet 1

    Please prepare answers to the following: You may wish to use annotated diagrams.

    1. What is continental drift and how has it determined UK geology

    2. Explain how to classify different soil types and sketch a particle size distribution curve for a well
    graded and a poorly graded deposit

    3. In each case, describe the specific features of the origin and formation of igneous rock that would
    result in the following rocks: basalt, granite

    4. Describe the main characteristics of the following sedimentary rocks and the environments in
    which they will have been deposited: claystone, sandstone, breccia, gypsum, limestone.

    5. Describe the three main types of weathering, the environments where they occur and their
    products.

    Further questions that you may wish to address are given below:

    6. Draw typical grading curves for fluvial and glacial soils.

    7. Sketch the rock cycle

    8. Explain how the transportation process determines the deposit.

    9. Explain how changes in sea level during glaciations cause buried valleys to be formed.

    10. Explain how longshore drift moves beach deposits along the coast and creates spits and bars.

    11. Give examples of metamorphic rocks and the sedimentary rock from which they are formed
    indicating the degree of metamorphism required.

    12. List the characteristics that you would aim to record for a sample of a soft CLAY and explain what
    would prevent you from providing an accurate description of a sample of a soil consisting of
    SAND and GRAVEL which had been removed from the ground.

    13. What are the key characteristics that you should describe for a ROCK

    The answers to all these questions are in the notes on Moodle or can be found by listening to the
    lecture recordings,

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