GEOL 3261 - MINERALOGY FALL 2009

Prof. Charles L. Smart

Office: Science Building C-325

E-mail: csmart@kean.edu

Website: http://www.kean.edu/~csmart

Lectures: http://www.kean.edu/~csmart/Mineralogy/Lectures/

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday 3:30-4:30

Scheduled Meetings - Lab and Lecture: Mon, Wed 4:30 - 7:15 p.m.

All Meetings in Science C-340.

Course objectives: We will study the important minerals. Students will learn to identify hand specimens of minerals using their appearance, crystallography, and physical and chemical properties. We will also introduce identification methods from Optical Mineralogy and X-ray Diffraction.

Grading: Your grade will be based on a Midterm and Final (60%), a mineral identification test (15%), 1 term paper ( 10%), a field trip report (5%) and lab assignments (10%)

Field Trip: An all day Saturday trip to the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mine District, with zinc and iron ores and some very rare minerals. Date to be announced. Bring money for food.

Required text: Perkins, Dexter Mineralogy Prentice Hall.

Recommended: Klein, C. and Dutrow, B. The 23rd edition of Manual of Mineral Science. John Wiley & Sons.

or: Klein, C. The 22nd edition of Manual of Mineral Science. John Wiley & Sons.

Available used online.

Selverstones: Optical Mineralogy in a nutshell. Three Powerpoints in your Lectures folder courtesy of Prof. Jane Selverstone.

Date	Topic		Reading
Oct 14	Lecture 1 - Crystal Systems, Miller Indices, Hermann-Mauguin, Stereo Plots Lab – Recognition of common minerals (continued)		198,203 Box 9.6, 244-245,196, Box 9.1 Ch.3
Oct. 19	Lecture 2 – Review of Elements and Ions Lab – Wooden Models: Symmetry and Miller Indices Prep for next Lab		6 – 21 Previous lecture Read Selverstones
Oct. 21	Lecture 3 – Review of Bonding and Ionic Radii Lab - Intro to the Optical Microscope: Grain mounts, Isotropic and Anisotropic Minerals		Ch.1 Ch. 4
Oct 26	Lecture 4 part a - Coordination of Ions part b Pauling’s Rules and Visualizing Crystal Structures		Ch. 13
Oct 28	Lecture 5 - Mineral Formula Calculations Lab – Coordination Principles; Atomic Structure from model construction		Ch 1 end, Box 1.5 271-284
Nov. 2	Lecture 6 – Thermodynamics Lab – Coordination Lab (continued)		145 - 153
Nov. 4	Lecture 7 Phase Diagrams and Eh-pH diagrams Lab - Packing 2, Halite and Fluorite		95-101
Nov. 9	Lecture 8 – 9 X-ray Diffraction Lab – Intro to X-ray Diffraction	Ch 12
Nov. 11 Nov. 14	Lecture 10 - Mineral Resources and Mining Review of Topics Covered FIELD TRIP meets 9am at the Flagpole between Science and Hennings	Ch. 8 Returns 6 pm
Nov 16	MIDTERM
Nov. 18	Lecture 11 Crystal Forms and Twinning Lab: Recognizing Forms on real crystals	187-203
Nov. 23	Lecture 12 2-D Internal Symmetry Lab: Recognizing Minerals from characteristic twinning – hand specimens	Ch 9
Nov. 25	Lecture 13 3-D Internal Symmetry Lab: Recognizing Minerals from characteristic twinning – Optical microscope	Ch. 10, 11
Nov. 30	Lecture 14 Native Elements and Sulfides Lab – Elements, Sulfides	Ch. 10 346-360
Dec 2	Lecture 15 part a - Halides and Sulfates Lab – Halides and Sulfates	361-363 387-390
Dec 7	Lecture 15 part b - Oxides, Hydroxides, Carbonates and others Lab - Oxides, Hydroxides Carbonates and others	364-386 391-400
Dec 9	Lecture 16 Silicates I: Introduction, Nesosilicates, and Sorosilicates Lab: Nesosilicates and Sorosilicates	332-345
Dec 14	Lecture 17 Silicates II: Inosilicates, Cyclosilicates, Phyllosilicates and Tectosilicates Lab - Inosilicates, Cyclosilicates, Phyllosilicates and Tectosilicates	297-331
Dec 16	Review for Final MINERAL IDENTIFICATION TEST (One (1) Hour) hand specimens
Dec 21	FINAL