Geology strategy for IAS
Geology, a branch of Earth Sciences, has emerged as one of the safest and rewarding optional subject for the Civil Services Mains examinations. Geology is one of the scoring subjects with prospective from the Competitive exams. It is easy to understand subject and easy to crack. However being a scientific subject there are less chances of the subject falling in the general category. So if you have deep interests in geology then only opt for this subject. You may definitely require more than three months covering the syllabus, since it quite lengthy.
The books mentioned below are standard reference material out which you have to do selective reading. The best strategy would be to choose a topic from the syllabus and read it from any standard book and make your own notes for each topic and revise them any number of time. Among the books mentioned Mukherjee is a good book for many topics. So is the book by Aussif Sayeed, which is actually from the Civil Services point of view. The graduation notes of Geology students, prepared by any good college professor can be extremely helpful.
Book List for Geology
- Trends in objective geology by Aussif Sayeed
- Text Book of Geology - P.K. Mukherjee
- Concise geology by P.K Mukherjee
- Geology: An Introduction - Kronaris and Krambine
- Text Book of Physical Geology - Mahapatra
- Geomorphology - Woolridge or Tharnbury
- Principles of Petrology - G.W. Turrel
- Petrography - Williams
- Mineral and Crystal Science - V.C. Jesh
- Sedimentary Rocks - Petti John
- Underground Hydrology - David Keith Toad
- Igneous Rocks and Metromorphic Petrology - Turner
- Ocean - Squaredrop, Johnson and Bliming
- General and engineering geology by Parbin singh
- Simple Geological Structure - Plate and Charlincr
- Soil Minerology - I. E. Grim
- A Dictionary of Geology - Morrison
- Geology and evolution of Indian plate
- Geology and Evolution of the Indian Plate (From Hadean to Holocene - 4Ga to 4 Ka) / Naqvi, S.M. - 2015
- Concise Glossary of Geology / Mathur, S.M. - 2007
- Dimensions of Himalayan Geology / Biyani, A.K. - 2007
- Marine Geology : A Scenario Around Indian Coasts / T.K. Mallik - 2008 [Rs. 2895, US $62.93]
- Hydrocarbon Potential and Exploration Strategy of Cauvery Basin, India / J.N. Sahu - 2007
- Current affairs by Arihant publishers
- Currents affairs by Pearson publishers
