GEOS 202
Mineralogy
Last Offered Fall 2020
Division III
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

This course could be subtitled “An Introduction to Earth Materials and Analytical Techniques.” As the basis for all subsequent solid-earth courses in the major, it provides a systematic framework for the study of minerals–Earth’s building blocks: their physical and chemical properties at all scales and the common analytical methods used to identify and interpret them. The course progresses from hand-specimen morphology and crystallography through element distribution and crystal chemistry to the phase relations, compositional variation, and mineral associations within major rock-forming mineral systems. Laboratory work includes the determination of crystal symmetry; mineral separation; the principles and applications of optical emission spectroscopy; wavelength- and energy-dispersive x-ray spectrochemical analysis; x-ray diffraction; the use of the petrographic microscope; and the identification of important minerals in hand specimen and thin section. This course is in the Solid Earth group for the Geosciences major.
The Class: Format: lecture/laboratory; Lecture three hours per week and laboratory three hours per week; independent study of minerals in hand specimen; one afternoon field trip
Limit: 14
Expected: 12
Class#: 2490
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one hour test, lab work, and a final exam
Prerequisites: one 100-level GEOS course or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: sophomores and juniors planning to take GEOS 301, 302 and/or 303 in the subsequent year
Distributions: Division III
Attributes: EXPE Experiential Education Courses
GEOS Group C Electives - Solid Earth
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