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GEOLOGY 284 - MINERALOGY
Dr. Helen M. Lang - FALL 2009
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LECTURE SCHEDULE |
Slideshow | Outline | Reading
Perkins '02 |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE! |
Note: Dr. Lang will be at a conference in China for the first two weeks of the Fall semester! The Geol 284 Class will meet with the TA Johnathan Moore on August 24-26, at which time you will receive the syllabus and be introduced to Mineralogy. There will be no class August 28. You will meet August 30 and Sept 2 to take the two-part Geology Program Pre-assessment Test (to test the Geology Program, not you!). There will be no class Sept. 4, but the Geol 284 Labs will meet as scheduled during the first two weeks of classes. Dr. Lang will meet with you on Sept. 9 and Geol 284 will begin in earnest! If you have questions about the Geol 284 Mineralogy class, please ask Johnathan Moore (132 Brooks); if you need to be signed into the course, please see Dr. Tom Kammer (243 Brooks) or the Department Office (330 Brooks). | |||
| Aug 24-26 | Introduction. What are Minerals? Why study minerals? Rocks, beauty and usefulness | SlideShow | Outline | |
| Aug 28 | No Class | |||
| Aug 31-Sept 2 | Two-part Geology Pre-Assessment Test - this test is a required part of the Geology Program's Assessment Process - please take it seriously! The Program is being assessed, not you! |
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| Sept 4 | No Class | |||
| Sept. 9-11 | Elements, Periodic Table, Bonding and Mineral Formulas | SlideShow SlideShow |
Outline Outline |
Ch. 1 |
| Sept 14-18 | Classification of Minerals, Cation Substitution in Minerals | SlideShow SlideShow |
Outline Outline |
Ch. 2, 13 |
| Sept 21-25 | Mineral Properties: Hand Specimen Mineralogy | SlideShow | Outline |
Ch. 3 |
| Sept 28-Oct. 2 | Optical Mineralogy | SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 4 |
| Oct. 5 | MIDTERM EXAM #1 | |||
| Oct 7-9 | Igneous Rocks & Common
Silicate Minerals (quartz, other silica minerals and feldspars) |
SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 5 |
| Oct 12-16 | More Igneous Minerals
(mafic minerals and micas) |
SlideShow SlideShow |
Outline Outline |
Ch. 5 |
| Oct 19-23 | Dr. Lang will be at the Geological Society of America Meeting | |||
| Oct 26-30 | Sedimentary Rocks and Minerals (silicates, clays) |
SlideShow | Outline | Ch. 6 |
| Nov 2-4 | Metamorphic Minerals (many and varied, e.g., garnet, staurolite, kyanite, andalusite & sillimanite) |
Ch. 7 | ||
| Nov. 6 | MIDTERM EXAM #2 |
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| Nov 9-13 | More Metamorphic Minerals |
Ch. 7 |
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| Nov 16-20 | Ore Deposits and Economic
Minerals (native elements, sulfides, oxides & hydroxides) |
Ch. 8 | ||
| THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||||
| Nov 30-Dec 4 | More Economic Minerals, Gem Minerals | Ch. 8 | ||
| Dec 7-11 | Crystal Morphology and Symmetry, Packing | Ch. 9, 13 | ||
| FINAL EXAM MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 8-10 AM |
