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| GSCI310 Home | Syllabus | Schedule | Homework Blackboard Login Required: Quizzes | Gradebook |
| Week | Date - Lecture Notes | Podcast |
Topics | Reading Assignments from Introduction to Mineralogy |
| Week 1 | Mon 8/24 - Lecture #1 Outline | Podcast |
Syllabus, Course Overview Basic Questions: What are minerals? How do they form? How can we distinguish them from each other? |
Chapter #1 |
| Wed 8/26 - Lecture #2 Outline | Podcast |
Historical Development of Mineralogy Plane Symmetry (Translational Symmetry in 2D) |
Chapters #1 & #2 | |
| Fri 8/28 - Lecture #3 Outline | Podcast |
Plane Symmetry (Translational Symmetry in 2D) Translational Symmetry in 3D |
Chapter #2 | |
| Week 2 | Mon 8/31 - Lecture #4 Outline | Podcast |
Translational Symmetry in 3D (continued) Point Symmetry (Wooden Blocks) |
Chapter #2 |
| Wed 9/2 - Lecture #5 Outline | Podcast |
The 6 Crystal Systems and 32 point groups | Chapter #2 | |
| Fri 9/4 - Lecture #6 Outline | Podcast |
Combining Point Symmetry and Translational Symmetry to Generate Space Groups |
Chapter #2 | |
| Week 3 | Mon 9/7 No Lecture |
Labor Day Holiday | Catch Up! Read Ahead! |
| Wed 9/9 - Lecture #7 Outline | Podcast |
Laws of Haüy and Bravais Miller Indices |
Chapter #2 | |
| Fri 9/11 - Lecture #8 Outline | Podcast |
Crystal Forms & Habits | Chapter #2 | |
| Week 4 | Mon 9/14 - Lecture #9 Outline | Podcast |
Crystallography Wrap-up and Review | Chapter #2 |
| Wed 9/16 - Lecture #10 Outline | Podcast |
Electron Configuration and the Organization of the Periodic Table Ions & Chemical Bonding |
Chapter #3 | |
| Fri 9/18 - Lecture #11 Outline | Exam - No Podcast |
Exam #1: Crystallography Study Guide |
Chapters #1 & #2 | |
| Week 5 | Mon 9/21 - Lecture #12 Outline | Podcast |
Valence and Non-Valence Bonding Size of Atoms and Ions |
Chapter #3 |
| Wed 9/23 - Lecture #13 Outline | Podcast |
Structure Controls in Metallic, Covalent, and Ionic Bonding | Chapter #3 | |
| Fri 9/25 No Lecture |
No Class - Oktoberfest | Ein, Zwei, Drei, Zuffa! | |
| Week 6 | Mon 9/28 - Lecture #14 Outline | Podcast |
Pauling's Principles | Chapter #3 |
| Wed 9/30 - Lecture #15 Outline | Podcast |
Pauling's Principles (continued) Quizzes #1-4 Due by Midnight |
Chapter #3 | |
| Fri 10/2 - Lecture #16 Outline | Podcast |
Crystallization Processes | Chapter #4 | |
| Week 7 | Mon 10/5 - Lecture #17 Outline | Podcast |
Mineral Stability & Nucleation Crystal Growth |
Chapter #5 |
| Wed 10/7 - Lecture #18 Outline | Podcast |
Crystal Growth (continued) | Chapter #5 | |
| Fri 10/9 - Lecture #19 Outline | Podcast |
Defects; Post-Crystallization Processes Crystal Chemistry Wrap-up and Review |
Chapter #5 | |
| Week 8 | Mon 10/12 - Lecture #20 Outline | Podcast |
Physical Properties Identification of Minerals | Chapter #6 |
| Wed 10/14 - Lecture #21 Outline | Exam - No Podcast |
Exam #2: Crystal Chemistry Study Guide Quizzes #5-10 Due by 5:00pm |
Chapters #3, #4, & #5 | |
| Fri 10/16 - Lecture #22 Outline | Podcast |
More Physical Properties | Chapter #6 | |
| Week 9 | Mon 10/19 - Lecture #23 Outline | Podcast |
Video Lecture: X-Ray Crystallography | Chapter #8 |
| Wed 10/21 - Lecture #24 Outline | Podcast |
Video Lecture: Chemical Analysis of Minerals | Chapter #9 | |
| Fri 10/23 - Lecture #25 Outline | Podcast |
Strategies for Study | Chapter #10 | |
| Week 10 | Mon 10/26 - Lecture #26 Outline | Podcast |
Optical Mineralogy Intro: Properties of Light | Chapter #7 |
| Wed 10/28 - Lecture #27 Outline | Podcast |
The Petrographic Microscope | Chapter #7 | |
| Fri 10/30 - Lecture #28 Outline | Podcast |
Isotropic Minerals | Chapter #7 | |
| Week 11 | Mon 11/2 - Lecture #29 Outline | Podcast |
Anisotropic Minerals | Chapter #7 |
| Wed 11/4 - Lecture #30 Outline | Podcast |
Uniaxial Minerals | Chapter #7 | |
| Fri 11/6 - Lecture #31 Outline | Podcast |
Biaxial Minerals | Chapter #7 | |
| Week 12 | Mon 11/9 - Lecture #32 Outline | Podcast |
Analytical Methods Wrap-up and Review | Chapters #6 thru #10 |
| Wed 11/11 - Lecture #33 Outline | Podcast |
Exam #3: Analytical Methods Study Guide Quizzes #11-15 Due by 5:00pm |
Chapters #6 thru #10 | |
| Fri 11/13 - Lecture #34 Outline | Podcast |
Silicate Classification Overview | Chapter #11 | |
| Week 13 | Mon 11/16 - Lecture #35 Outline | Podcast |
More Silicate Classification Info | Chapter #11 |
| Wed 11/18 - Lecture #36 Outline | Podcast |
Framework Silicates: SiO2 Phase Diagrams | Chapter #12 | |
| Fri 11/20 - Lecture #37 Outline | Podcast |
All You Ever Wanted to Know about the Feldspars... and Less! | Chapter #12 | |
| Week 14 | Mon 11/23 Wed 11/25 Fri 11/27 |
No Class - Thanksgiving Break | Catch Up! Read Ahead! |
| Week 15 | Mon 11/30 - Lecture #38 Outline | Podcast |
The Biopyriboles: I-beam Structures and Cleavage Relationships on the Discontinuous Branch of Bowen's Reaction Series |
Chapters #13 & #14 |
| Wed 12/2 - Lecture #39 Outline | Podcast |
More Biopyriboles: I-beam Structures and Cleavage Relationships on the Discontinuous Branch of Bowen's Reaction Series |
Chapters #13 & #14 | |
| Fri 12/4 - Lecture #40 Outline | Podcast |
Orthosilicates: Olivine Group, Garnet Group, the Aluminosilicates Bowties and Rings: Disilicates and Cyclosilicates |
Chapters #15 & #16 | |
| Week 16 | Mon 12/7 - Lecture #41 Outline | Podcast |
The Other -ates: Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Etc. | Chapter #17 |
| Wed 12/9 - Lecture #42 Outline | Podcast |
Minerals of Ore Deposits: The -ides and the Native Elements | Chapters #18 thru #20 | |
| Fri 12/11 - Lecture #43 Outline | Podcast |
Mineral Groups Wrap-up and Review | Chapters #11 thru #20 | |
| Exam Week | Wed 12/16 1:30 pm to 3:10pm |
Exam #4: Mineral Groups Study Guide Quizzes #16-20 Due by 5:00pm |
Chapters #11-#20 |
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