Jill Banfield, Room 315

Philip Brown, Room 365

Gordon Medaris, Room 387

Tuesday : Katrina Edwards, Room 335

Wednesday: Scott Sitzman, Room 151

Thursday : Jane Van Heteren, Room 281

Syllabus

Week 1

• Mon 9/4 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
• PB Wed 9/6 Atoms and bonding, unit cells ..... KH 170-190, 201-210
• JB Fri 9/8 Point Symmetry in 2D and 3D ..... KH 17-37

Lab 1:Introductory laboratory: Symmetry of Wisconsin

Week 2

• PB Mon 9/11 Point symmetry in 3D cont. ..... KH 17-37
• PB Wed 9/13 Defects and color in minerals ..... KH 162-164, 259-270

Lab 2: Symmetry 2D & 3D point symmetry

Week 3

• PB Mon 9/18 X-ray diffraction
  

Lab 6: X-ray diffraction analysis

Week 7

• GM Mon 10/16 Introduction to the properties of light ..... N Ch.1, 2
• GM Wed 10/18 Refractometry, isotropic minerals ..... N Ch. 3, 4
• GM Fri 10/20 Anisotropic minerals, interference phenomena ..... N Ch.5

Lab 7: Optics 1

Week 8

• GM Mon 10/23 Uniaxial indicatrix ..... N 53-60*1
• GM Wed 10/25 Uniaxial interference figures ..... N 65-75
• GM Fri 10/27 Uniaxial minerals ..... N 61-65

Lab 8: Optics 2

Week 9

• GM Mon 10/30 Biaxial indicatrix ..... N 77-86
• GM Wed 11/1 Biaxial interference figures ..... N 87-99
• GM Fri 11/3 Biaxial sign determination ..... N 99-104

Lab 9: Optics 3

Week 10

• GM Mon 11/6 Biaxial minerals ..... N 86-87, 104-111
• GM Wed 11/8 Optics overview ..... [GSA]
• !! Fri 11/10 OPTICS THEORY EXAM
  

Lab 10: Optics 4

Week 11

• JB Mon 11/13 Quartz, polymorphs, phase diag. ..... KH 221-224, 440-444
• JB Wed 11/15 Feldspars: structure, twinning ..... KH 532-550, 102-106, 164-168
• JB Fri 11/17Feldspars: composition, phase diagrams, unmixing, feldspathoids, zeolites ..... KH 233-240, 315-324

Lab 11: Quartz, feldspars

Week 12

• JB Mon 11/20 Sheet silicates ..... KH 498-524
• JB Wed 11/22 Amphiboles ..... KH 488-498
  
• -- Fri 11/24 THANKSGIVING
  

OPTICS LAB EXAM

Week 13

• JB Mon 11/27 Pyroxenes ..... KH 474-488
  
• JB Wed 11/29 Mica-pyroxene-amphibole polysomatic series
• JB Fri 12/1 Cyclosilicates; sorosilicates ..... KH 462-474

Lab 12: Sheet silicates & amphiboles

Week 14

• JB Mon 12/4 Orthosilicates KH 444-462
• JB Wed 12/6 Mineral physics & Geophysics
• GM Fri 12/8 Intro to Geochemistry
  

Lab 13: Pyroxenes & orthosilicates

Week 15

• JB Mon 12/11 Environmental Mineralogy
  
• PB Wed 12/13 Crystallography review
• GM Fri 12/15 Optics review for final
  

MINERALS LAB EXAM

General Information

Texts:

• Manual of Mineralogy - Klein and Hurlbut 21st Edition
• Introduction to Optical Mineralogy - Nesse

Labs:
We encourage you to work together in the lab sessions - the labs must be handed in to the TAs. You have one week to complete them. The labs will be corrected and assigned a grade that contributes directly to your course grade:(check +) = 100%, (check) = 66%, (check-) = 33%, nothing handed in = 0%! The lab score = 1/8 of your final grade.

Examination:
The above schedule contains 5 exams:

1. ~ 50 min. crystallography exam on Friday 10/6. This exam will be held during the lecture period and will cover all material covered in the section of the course up to and including 9/27 = 1/8 of the final grade.
2. The ~ 50 min class exam on Friday 11/10 will cover optics theory = 1/8 of the final grade.
3. The 2 hr lab exam on 11/20 or 11/21 or 11/22 will cover practical optical mineralogy = 1/8 of the final grade.
4. The lab final during the last week of class will cover all the minerals you have studied, silicates as well as non-silicates. This will include lecture and laboratory material! = 1/4 of the final grade.
5. The comprehensive final written examination on Monday December 18, 1995 at 7:45 a.m. = 1/4 of the final grade. Note that although there will be no separate exams on the electron microprobe, formula renormalization, X-ray diffraction, etc. this material will be covered in the comprehensive final!

There will be a variety of regular lab exercises and weekly or biweekly quizzes in the lab.

Summary on grades:
The course grade will be based on an average made up of your exam scores (=7/8) plus a lab (=1/8) score to be supplied by your TA. The lab score will be determined by the marks assigned on corrected lab exercises as well other short quizzes to be given during the semester. Note: although the lab score is worth only 1/8 of the final grade, your performance on examinations will rely very strongly on your understanding of this material. Furthermore, the labs will closely reflect material covered in lectures, so it is essential that you hand in and then review your corrected laboratory work!!

Field trip:
You are all strongly encouraged to take part in the 2 day field trip. We will camp 1 night and look at a variety of minerals in northern/central Wisconsin. Because this trip is optional it is essential that you inform us within the first two weeks of the semester whether you will be coming (and that you also turn up for the trip if you say you are going to!). The trip will not involve a cost to you, other than your food and any camping equipment you choose to buy. The department uses gift funds to pay for the bus (Weeks Bequest).