Download Fall 2016 Mineralogy/Petrology Syllabus Instructor: Philip Goodell

Fall 2016
Mineralogy/Petrology
Syllabus
Instructor: Philip Goodell, PhD
Office: Room 223, phone 747-5593
Email: [email protected]
Office hours: Tues & Thurs 9:30-10:30 and 12-12:30
Teaching Assistant: Josh Peterson
Objectives
1. Learning how to learn.
2. Continuing development of critical thinking
3. Principles of mineral chemistry and their application
to rock-forming minerals,
4. Principles of mineral stability
5. Field relations of rocks and minerals
#1 Week
Tuesday August 23, Thursday 25
Rock cycle, Mineral and rock ID.
Learning how to learn. Periodic chart. Crustal abundance. Simple oxide components of major elements. Questionaire.
Asssignments: 0, 6,7,8, 9; Chem Review.
Handouts: Introduction to Chemistry
Textbook:
LAB: Field trip and exercise, Campus Andesite.
Pile of Minerals exercise, white mineral chart, albite
#2 Week
Tuesday Aug 3O, Thurs September 1
Physical properties, Rock Cycle, Geochemical cycle.
LAB Rocks
#3 Week
Tuesday September 6, Field Trip, Trans Mt Rd.
Thursday September 8 Igneous rocks, Bowens reaction series, & chart. Rhyolitic calderas and their
rocks
LAB: Geochemistry & mineralogy, Bowen’s Reaction Series, major & trace elements; accessory minerals,
igneous rocks; caldera rocks ioGAS activity, Mineral sample quiz,
#4 Week
Tuesday September 13 Phase Equilibrium
Thursday September 15, Phase Equilibrium
LAB: bubbles
Assignments
LAB: Caldera rocks, ioGAS activity
#5 Week
Tuesday September 20, Simple crystal structures, packing of spheres. Mineral families
Thursday September 22,
simple silicate structures, mineral families
Crystal Chemistry, Ch 3; p. 37-65, Periodic charts; valence;
Atoms, ions, bonding , #1-#4. electronic configuration
Lab: exam on samples, some simple mineral formulas.
#6 Week
Tuesday September 27. Sedimentary rocks, continents and energy resources.
Thursday Sept 29. Chemical Weathering. Phyllosilicates. Soils
LAB: field trip; sedimentary rocks
Mineral reactions and stability
Chap
Phase diagrams, 1, 2, 3 components Exercises.
Krauskopf problems,
,
P-T, T-X diagrams, Polymorphism, Exer.
T -XXX exercise 17, Exsolution & other behavior;
Metamorphic changes, exercises
Lab: work problems
#7 Week
Tuesday October 4
Thursday October 6
Mineral reactions and stability
Phase diagrams, 1, 2, 3 components Exercises.
Krauskopf problems,
,
P-T, T-X diagrams, Polymorphism, Exer.
T -XXX exercise 17, Exsolution & other behavior;
Metamorphic changes, exercises
LAB: exam, sedimentary rocks,
#8 Week
Tuesday October 11 Metamorphism, PT,
Thursday October 13
Crystal structures & simple symmetry.
Lab: work problems, crystals.,
#9 Week
Tuesday October 18
Thursday October 20
Rock forming silicates
Crystal structures & simple symmetry
Lab: Bubbles, and rock forming silicates
#10 Week
Tuesday October 25 Crystallography
Thursday October 27
Stereographic projection & crystallography
Lab: work problems
#11 Week
Tuesday November 1
Thursday November 3
Exam,
Lab: natural crystals,
#12 Week
Tuesday November 8
Thursday November 10
Analytical Geochemistry,
Lab: Tour of facilities
#13 Week
Tuesday November 15
Thursday November 17
LAB:
#14 Week
Tuesday November 22
Thursday November 24 (no class)
LAB: NONE
#15 Week
Tuesday Nov 29
Thursday December 1
Other mineral groups, review
LAB: Exam
#16 Week
Tuesday Dec.6
Thurs Dec 8
Final Exam