Geology Syllabus for Indian Forest Service Examination (IFS)
General Geology: Origin, age and interior of the Earth, different geological agencies and their effects on topography, weathering and erosion; Soil types, their classification and soil groups of India; Physio-graphic sub-divisions of India. Vegetation and topography; Volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, diastrophism.
Structural Geology: Common structure of igneous. sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Dip, strike and slopes; folds, faults and unconformities, including their effects on outcrops. Elementary ideas of methods of Geological Surveying and Mapping.
Crystallography and Mineralogy: Elementary knowledge of crystal symmetry. Law of crystallography. Crystal habits and twinning.
Study of important rock-forming, including clay minerals with regard to their chemical composition, physical properties, optical properties, alteration, occurrence and commercial uses.
Economic Geology: Study of important economic minerals of India including mode of occurrence. Origin and classification of ore deposits.
Petrology: Elementary study of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, including origin and classification. Study of common rock types.
Stratigraphy: Principles of stratigraphy; lithological and chronological sub-division of geological records. Outstanding features of Indian Stratigraphy.
Paleontology: The bearing of palaentological data upon evolution. Fossils, their nature and mode of preservation. An elementary idea of the morphology and distribution of representative forms of animal and plant fossils
