Learning Outcomes Grading Policies Yet Another Syllabus Tutoring
The textbook for the course is Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy, by Melinda Darby Dyar, Mickey E. Gunter and Dennis Tasa, 2008. It includes a DVD with excellent animations, etc. It is available at the bookstore, but can also be ordered at a discount from the Mineralogical Society of America. at https://msa.minsocam.org/publications.html. In addition, Steven Dutch has wonderful animations and other useful pages of information. Links to some of the best ones are listed on the schedule, but his Mineralogy course, and more, is at http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/index.html.
| Subject of Discussion | Dyar, Gunter, Tasa | Steven Dutch | ||
| Wed | 1/18 | Preface; Introduction | ||
| Thur | 1/19 | The Big Ten | xi - xxi | |
| Mon | 1/23 | What is a mineral? Chemical elements | 1 - 7 | Minerals |
| Wed | 1/25 | Crystal Systems, Optical Classes | 7-12 | Crystals and Unit Cells |
| Thur | 1/26 | Hand Sample Identification | 12 - 18 | Identify Rocks and Minerals |
| Mon | 1/30 | Atoms, Ions and Bonds | 47 - 57 | Density and Atomic Arrangements |
| Wed | 2/1 | Ionic Sizes and Coordination Numbers | 58 - 68 | |
| Thur | 2/2 | Coordination with calculations | Coordination | |
| Mon | 2/6 | Crystallography | 69 - 80 | |
| Wed | 2/8 | Optical Mineralogy | 81 - 102 | The Indicatrix |
| Thur | 2/9 | Crystal Models, Stacking, etc. lab | ||
| Mon | 2/13 | Chemistry of the Elements | 121 - 148 | What do atoms "really" look like? |
| Wed | 2/15 | Bonding and Packing in Minerals | 148 - 168 | |
| Thur | 2/16 | First Graded Learning Opportunity | ||
| Mon | 2/20 | Introduction to Symmetry | 225 - 250 | |
| Wed | 2/22 | Symmetry | 251 - 273 | Symmetry |
| Thur | 2/23 | Symmetry Lab | ||
| Mon | 2/27 | Diffraction | 363 - 383 | |
| Wed | 2/29 | Introduction to Optics | 401 - 412 | Light and Polarization |
| Thur | 3/1 | XRD Preparation | ||
| Mon | 3/12 | Anisotropic Materials | 413 - 418 | Polarized Light in Crystals |
| Wed | 3/14 | Interference Colors | 418 - 434 | Interference Colors |
| Thur | 3/15 | Light and Polaraized Light | ||
| Mon | 3/19 | Optical Crystallography | 435 - 446 | |
| Wed | 3/21 | Interference Figures | 446 - 457 | Interference Figures |
| Thur | 3/22 | XRD | ||
| Mon | 3/26 | Dispersion and other Optical Phenomena | 457 - 480 | |
| Wed | 3/28 | Summary and Synthesis | ||
| Thur | 3/29 | Second Graded Learning Opportunity | ||
| Mon | 4/2 | Some Thermodynamics | 535 - 538 | |
| Wed | 4/4 | Binary Phase Diagrams | 538 - 539 | Animation 1 Animation 2 |
| Thur | 4/5 | The Petrographic Microscope | ||
| Mon | 4/9 | Incongruent Melting | Animation | |
| Wed | 4/11 | Exsolution | Exsolution | |
| Thur | 4/12 | Optical Mineralogy | ||
| Mon | 4/16 | Complex Binary phase diagrams | 539 - 542 | |
| Wed | 4/18 | Ternary Phase Diagrams | 542 - 544 | Animation |
| Thur | 4/19 | Igneous Rocks in Thin Section | ||
| Mon | 4/23 | Metamorphic Phase Diagrams | 536 - 538 | Metamorphic Phase Diagrams |
| Wed | 4/25 | Metamorphic Facies | Metamorphism | |
| Thur | 4/26 | Other Rocks in Thin Section | ||
| Mon | 4/30 | Environments of Mineral Formation | 545 - 553 | |
| Fri | 5/4 | Final Graded Learning Opportunity 3:30 PM |
Each hour long Graded Learning Opportunity will count 20% of your grade, the two hour long Final Graded Learning Opportunity will count 40% of your grade, and lab performance will contribute the other 20%. Exams will try to probe your understanding and comprehension of the material.
If you desire to see it modified to include additional material, or omit material which you believe has been adequately covered in some other course, please bring this to my attention as soon as possible.
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