| Course ID: | GEOL 3010-3010L. 4 hours. 2 hours lecture and 4 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | Earth Materials |
Course
Description: | Physical and chemical properties, identification, and modes of occurrence of minerals and mineral assemblages. Mineral crystallography, determinations of optical properties with the petrographic microscope, x-ray diffraction and structural formula determinations. Introduction to mineral thermodynamic phase relations. |
| Oasis Title: | EARTH MATERIALS |
| Prerequisite: | CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Sytematic Mineralogy - Students will learn types of mineral structures,
modes of occurrence of minerals and common uses of minerals. Student will learn
identification of common minerals in hand specimen.
Crystallography - students will learn 3-dimensional concepts useful in all aspects of
geology.
Optical Mineralogy - Students will learn to identify common minerals in thin section. |
| Topical Outline: | Lecture 1 - Introduction - Definition of a mineral
Lecture 2 - Ordered patterns
Lecture 3 - Geometric operations
Lecture 4 - Crystal morphology
Lecture 5 - Bravais lattices
Lecture 6 - Miller indices
Lecture 7 - Directions in a crystal
Lecture 8 - Polymorphs and polytypes
Lecture 9 and 10 - X-ray crystallography - Bragg's law
Lecture 11 - X-ray crystallography - Crystal structure determination
Lecture 12 - Crystal chemistry - Atomic radii and bonding
Lecture 13 - Crystal chemistry - Coordination principles
Lecture 14 - Crystal chemistry - Pauling's rules
Lecture 15 - Crystal chemistry - Elemental analysis and unit cell contents
Lecture 16 - Crystal chemistry - Solid solutions
Lectures 17 - 24 Optical Mineralogy |