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GEOLOGY 284 - MINERALOGY
Dr. Helen M. Lang - FALL 2007
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LECTURE SCHEDULE |
Slideshow | Outline | Reading
Perkins '02 |
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| Aug 20-22 | Why study minerals? Rocks, beauty and usefulness | SlideShow | Outline | |
| Aug 24-31 | Elements, Periodic Table, Bonding and Mineral Formulas | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 1 |
| Sept 5-7 | Crystallization of Minerals, Minerals in Rocks | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 2 to p. 38 |
| Sept 10-14 | Classification of Minerals
Cation Substitution in Minerals |
SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 2
Ch. 13 |
| Sept 17-21 | Mineral Properties: Hand Specimen Mineralogy | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 3 |
| Sept 24 | MIDTERM EXAM #1 | |||
| Sept 26-28 | Optical Mineralogy | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 4 |
| Oct 1-5 | Igneous Rocks & Common
Silicate Minerals (quartz and feldspars) |
SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 5 |
| Oct 8-12 | More Igneous Minerals
(mafic minerals, micas) |
SlideShow SlideShow |
Outline Outline |
Ch. 5 |
| Oct 15-19 | Sedimentary Rocks and Minerals (silicates, clays) |
Outline | Ch. 6 | |
| Oct 22-26 | More Sedimentary Minerals (carbonates, halides & sulfates) | Ch. 6 | ||
| Oct 31 | MIDTERM EXAM #2 (GSA Meeting in Denver - no class on Oct. 29 or Nov. 2) |
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| Nov 5-9 | Metamorphic Minerals (many and varied, e.g., garnet, staurolite, kyanite, andalusite & sillimanite) |
SlideShow SlideShow |
Outline Outline |
Ch. 7 |
| Nov 12-16 | Ore Deposits and Economic
Minerals (native elements, sulfides, oxides & hydroxides) |
SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 8 |
| THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||||
| Nov 26-30 | More Economic Minerals, Gem Minerals | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 8 |
| Dec 3-7 | Crystal Morphology and Symmetry, Packing | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 9, 13 |
| FINAL EXAM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 8-10 AM |
