Nov 21, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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GEOL 2034 Minerals and Rocks


4 hours
Systematic introduction to minerals as naturally occurring, crystalline substances, crystallography, crystal chemistry, classification, occurrences, and associations, plus megascopic and instrumental methods of identification. Overview of igneous and metamorphic rocks of the earth’s crust and their processes of formation, alteration, and occurrence in space and time. Laboratory stresses the coordination of megascopic and petrographic studies of minerals and rocks. Prerequisites: CHEM 1013  and GEOL 1014 . Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory session each week.



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