From: web-form@Oswego.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 9:22 AM To: ucc@oswego.edu Subject: Web Form: Course_Submission Department_Chair: Alfred J. Stamm Department_Chair_Email: stamm@oswego.edu Additional_Contact: Paul B. Tomascak Additional_Contact_Email: tomascak@oswego.edu Course_Number: GEO 310 Course_Type: Updated Course Course_Title: Mineralogy Catalog_Description: This is a course concerned with the materials that form rocks. Major topics include physical and chemical properties of minerals (including crystallography and mineral optics), conditions of formation of minerals, and mineral identification. The course includes both lecture and laboratory study. Prerequisites: CHE 111 and either GEO 100 or OCE 100 Fl - every Fall: Yes Semester_Hours: 4 Justification: Mineralogy is a required course for the Geology B.A., Geology B.S., Geochemistry B.S., and Adolescence Education - Earth Sciences programs. Course_Objectives: To be successful in most of the upper level courses in geology, it is critical to be able to rationally assess physical and chemical properties of materials, and that means mineralogy. Success in this course requires the demonstrated ability to: (1) interpret the chemical and physical processes that govern mineral formation in different environments, (2) to identify major minerals in Earth materials, both in hand sample and via petrographic microscope, and (3) to understand the significance of minerals and their occurrences. Course_Description: GEO 310 -- Mineralogy -- Lecture and Laboratory Schedule, Fall 20XX date topic reading: ch.(pg.) laboratory topic Thr - Introduction & expectations Fri Crystal chemistry 1, 3 (39-44) Mon No Meeting - Labor Day Wed Crystal chemistry 3 (41-51) Thr - Lab #1 Essentials of hand sample Fri Crystal chemistry 3 (45-55) mineral identification (text chapter 6) Mon Crystal structure 4 (57-65) Wed Crystal structure 4 (66-71) Thr - No Meeting - Rosh Hashana Fri Crystal structure 6 (102-107) Mon Crystal growth 5 (74-81) Wed Crystal growth 5 (81-83) Thr - Lab #2 Crystallography and Fri Crystal growth 5 (84-92) symmetry (text chapter 2) Mon * Exam 1 * Wed Minerals in rocks 11 Thr - Lab #3 Mineral identification in Fri Minerals in rocks 11 complex samples: rocks (text chapter 6) Mon Minerals in rocks 11 Wed Native elements 20 Thr - Lab #4 Native elements, sulfides, Fri Sulfides 19 oxides, hydroxides, halides (ch. 18, 19, 20) Mon Sulfides, oxides 18, 19 Wed Oxides 18 Thr - Lab #5 Carbonates, sulfates, & the Fri Field Trip - No Meeting other non-silicates (text chapter 17) Mon Oxides, hydroxides, halides 18 Wed Carbonates 17 Thr - Lab #6 Ortho-, di-, cyclo-, & Fri No Meeting - Fall Break Day chain silicates (text chapter 14, 15, 16) Mon Sulfates, phosphates, borates, etc. 17 Wed * Exam 2 * Thr - Lab #7 Sheet- & Fri Mineral optics 7 (114-121) tectosilicates (text chapter 12, 13) Mon Mineral optics 7 (121-129) Wed Mineral optics 7 (130+) Thr - Lab #8 Optics, part 1: petrographic Fri Mineral optics 7 (130+) microscope, grain mounts (text chapter 7) Mon Introduction to the silicates 11 Wed Orthosilicates: overview 16 Thr - Lab #9 Optics, part 2: isotropic and Fri Orthosilicates 16 uniaxial materials (text chapter 7) Mon Disilicates, cyclosilicates 15 Wed Chain silicates: overview 14 Thr - Lab #10 Optics, part 3: biaxial Fri Chain silicates 14 materials (text chapter 7) Mon Sheet silicates: overview 13 Wed Thanksgiving Recess - No Meeting Thr – Thanksgiving Recess Fri Thanksgiving Recess - No Meeting Mon Sheet silicates 13 Wed Tectosilicates: overview 12 Thr - Lab #11 Optics, part 4: minerals Fri Tectosilicates: silica minerals 12 in thin section Mon Tectosilicates: feldspars 12 Wed Chemical analysis 9 Thr - * Laboratory Final Exam * Fri Determination of mineral formulas 9 Final Exam: Friday Piez rm. 207 8:00 - 10:00 Resources: This is primarily a “tools” course, where in-class and in-lab content is everything students will need. However, some short assignments require students to use library materials (major mineralogical journals such as American Mineralogist) either in print or online. Students also are given links to important mineralogical/geochemical databases such as www.webmineral.com, www.mindat.org, and www.earthref.org through the course web site--these references are helpful for additional information in mineral identification and in gathering data for short out-of-class assignments and lab exercises. Bibliography: Blackburn WH and Dennen WH (1997) Encyclopedia of Mineral Names. The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication 1, 360 pp. Bloss FD (1971) Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry: An Introduction. Holt, Reinhart and Winston, New York, 545 pp. Deer WA, Howie RA and Zussman J (1992) An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals (2nd Ed.). Longman, 696 pp. Hibbard MJ (2002) Mineralogy: A Geologist’s Point of View. McGraw-Hill, New York, 562 pp. Klein C and Dutrow B (2008) Manual of Mineral Science (23rd Ed.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 675 pp. Nesse WD (1986) Introduction to Optical Mineralogy. Oxford University Press, New York, 325 pp. Nesse WD (2000) Introduction to Mineralogy. Oxford University Press, New York, 442 pp. Perkins D and Henke KR (2004) Minerals in Thin Section (2nd Ed.). Pearson Eductaion, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 163 pp. Putnis A and McConnell JD (1980) Principles of Mineral Behaviour. Elsevier, New York, 257 pp. Smyth JR and Bish DL (1988) Crystal Structures and Cation Sites of the Rock-Forming Minerals. Allen and Unwin, Boston, 332 pp. Wenk H-R and Bulakh A (2004) Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin. Cambridge University Press, New York, 646 pp. Other_Comments: IP_Adress: 129.3.26.147