UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Indian and World Geography
← Geomorphology and the EarthRocks and minerals
- Major minerals of the crust: feldspar, quartz, mica, pyroxene, amphibole, olivine
- Igneous rocks: intrusive and extrusive, granite and basalt
- Sedimentary rocks: mechanical, organic and chemical origin; limestone, chalk, sandstone, shale
- Metamorphic rocks and the rock cycle
- Porosity and permeability of rocks: chalk, clay, sandstone, granite
