Mineralogy

Catalog description

Introduction to mineralogical processes on Earth and the terrestrial planets. Topics include: crystallography; crystal chemistry; fundamentals of mineralogical thermodynamics and kinetics; mineral defects and their dynamics; physicochemical properties of minerals and magmas. Laboratory study devoted to analytical techniques for minerals/materials analysis: X-ray and electron diffraction; reflectance spectrometry; transmitted optical microscopy; electron microscopy; X-ray spectrometry. In addition to Earth scientists, the course should be of interest to chemical/materials engineering and chemistry concentrators. Prerequisites: EEPS 0230 , CHEM 0100 or 0330 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.