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Geology 3010 Mineralogy Syllabus Fall, 2009

Here's the syllabus and links as of 30 October, 2009

The lecture meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 - 10:30 AM in Benson Earth Sciences (BESC) Rm 185. 

This syllabus is provisional and will evolve during the semester. There is a set of links to my html lecture notes for each lecture. In addition, there is a link to the Power Point lecture notes for each lecture. The Power Point notes are subject to change right up to the time of the lecture. Initially, these are the Power Point notes from last year's course. 

This year we are incorporating the use of Clickers and will try to also incorporate many of the principles of the CU Science Education Initiative. So you will need to bring your clicker to class.

The recommended text is Manual of Mineral Science 23rd Edition by Klein and Dutrow (2008) ISBN 978-0471-72157-4. We will not use the textbook closely or follow the outline of the text, so the previous edition (22nd) will also be acceptable.

There are three laboratory sections offered this semester. Laboratory sections meet in BESC 455. There will be no lab sessions the first week.

Dates Lecture Subject      

Aug. 25 Mineral Definition  PowerPoint               


Aug. 27 Mineral Properties  PowerPoint               


 Sep. 1 Chemical Classification of Minerals  PowerPoint     Lab 1: Physical Properties
 Sep. 3  Mineral Environments Power Point  
              

  
									

								 
 Sep. 8  Crystal Systems & Classes Power Point              Lab 2: Field Trip
 
 Sep.10  Point Groups   
                             
Homework 1

Homework 2

Homework 3

Sep. 15 Point Groups  PowerPoint                      Lab 3 Point Groups (Blocks I)

 Sep.17 Space Groups       PowerPoint   
             
 
 Sep. 22 Crystal Structures,                                 Lab 4 (Blocks II)
         
 Sep. 24 Structure and stoichiometry                     

 

 
 Sep. 29  X-rays & powder diffraction   Power Point         Lab 5 (Structure Drawing I)    
 
 Oct. 1   Density and X-ray Diffraction  Power Point                               
 
 Oct. 6  Test 1                             1-4                Lab 6  X-rays I (XPOW Calculation)
Sample Test I   Sample Test I (with answers)
                                                            

Problem Set 4 


Problem Set 5 


Problem Set 6 

Problem Set 7 
Problem Set 7 

Problem Set 9 

 
Oct. 8 ;  Introduction to optics      Power Point         

Problem set 8 Instructions

Problem set 8 SpreadSheet

 Oct. 13 Intro Optics- Microscope, isotropic minerals  Power Point 
                                                         Lab 7  X-rays II  (XPOW Calculation) 

			
 Problem Set 10 
                                                    
 Oct. 15  Birefringence & Pleochroism


 Oct. 20   The Indicatrix   Power Point                   Lab 8. Lab Exam
 
 Oct. 22  Biaxial Interference figures  


 Oct. 27   Biaxial Indicatrix                          Lab 9. The Petrographic Microscope 
 
 Oct. 29 Lecture Notes Light 1 Lecture Notes Light 2 
 Nov. 3  TEST 2                                              Lab 10. Isotropic  Minerals

Sample Class TEST II

 Nov. 5  Phase Diagrams Take-home test due  Lecture Notes Phase Diagrams
Take Home Exam Instructions 
 Nov. 10     Classification of minerals                         11. Uniaxial Minerals     

Nov. 12    Systematic Mineralogy Native Elements  Lecture Notes Native elements   Adopt-a-Mineral Paper Due          

 Nov. 17    Sulfides    Lecture Notes Sulfides               12. Biaxial Minerals

Nov. 19    Sulfides & Halides    Lecture Notes Halides                                     

Dec.1     Oxides & Hydroxides   Lecture Notes Oxides and Hydroxides   

Dec. 3     Carbonates   Lecture Notes Carbonates                                    14. Review                    

Lecture Notes Systematic Descriptive Mineralogy

Environments

Dec. 8    Sulfates  & Phosphates Lecture Notes Sulfates 

Dec. 10     Review                                         

 

SAMPLE FINAL EXAM ANSWERS