Introduction to Minerals & Rocks.

Catalog description

PR: GEOL 101 and GEOL 102 with a minimum grade of C- in each and ( CHEM 110 or PR or CONC: CHEM 115 and CHEM 115L ) and Coreq: GEOL 286L . An introduction to the fundamentals of mineralogy and petrology, focusing on how minerals and rocks form, and how different minerals and rocks are identified, classified, and related to one another through plate tectonic theory and physio-chemical processes. (Required weekend field trip.).