GEOLOGY 302 - MINERALOGY FALL 2019. 4 credit class
GEOL 101 and 102 (Grade C or above) PREREQUISITES CHEM 211 Monday / Wednesday 10:30 - 11:45 am, Exploratory Hall 1309
CLASS MEETS LAB either Wednesday 12:30 - 3:15 pm, L505 Exploratory Hall
or Wednesday 3:30 - 6:15 pm, L505 Exploratory Hall Dr. Julia Nord, 3453 Exploratory Hall Email Address - [email protected]
Angela Bee, 3417 Exploratory Hall Email Address - [email protected] INSTRUCTORS Shannon Glock, Mineralogy LA. "Learning Assistant" Email Address - [email protected]
Dylan Persinger, Mineralogy LA. "Learning Assistant" Email Address - [email protected] Julia - Tuesday 2:30-4:30 in the lab and by appointment. Angela - TBD OFFICE HOURS Shannon - TBD Dylan - Monday 4:30-6:30 and Thursday 4:00-6:00. William Nesse Introduction to Mineralogy (IM), I'm ok with any edition BUT page numbers are for third edition. IF TEXTS you have a different (cheaper) edition the page numbers will be different. You may want to check the text in the lab to see if you are on the correct pages. Nesse. Introduction to Optical Mineralogy (IOM) Oxford University Press. Editions 2, 3 or 4. Copies in classroom PLEASE NOTE page numbers are for edition 4. LABORATORY TEXT Simon and Schuster. Guide to Rocks and Minerals or Peterson Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals or similar reference book. Get at a Bookstore - or online Pen Knife (please bring your Mason penknife to each lab, you will SUPPLIES get this the first lab) Magnifying glass (10* or better) is provided. But every geologist has their own. Pencils Colored pencils 3 ring binder for lab * Skills in identifying and classifiying minerals in hand-samples in both the laboratory and the field * Ability to use the petrographic microscope and other tools for mineral identification * Skills in identifying minerals in thin-section in the laboratory
* Ability to observe, document concisely and correctly, and interpret mineralogical data collected in both the laboratory and the field setting. LEARNING * Comprehension of the significance of mineral assemblages and OBJECTIVES rock associations * Understanding reactions and processes operating in minerals and mineral associations
* Appreciation of the importance of mineral resources in society * Participation in activities involving professional and / or amateur mineralogical societies
* Preparation for GEOL 304 and GEOL 308
YOUR GOALS FOR THIS CLASS
Recent research shows that humans are not good at multitasking, in fact several peer reviewed journals state that "multitasking results in poorer learning and poorer performance". Please refrain from using phones and computers for text messages, Facebook, internet searching, shopping, IM and other related activities. IF we do not know the answer to a question as a group we can look it up during MULTITASKING the break and have a discussion.
It is better to take notes by hand. IF you use a computer for note taking please do not use it for other purposes. IF you still want to multitask please sit on the back row.
Multitasking Increases Study Time, Lowers Grades
Make it our time: In class multitaskers have lower academic performance
Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
Each lab has been designed to take approximately 6 hours of conscientious work. If this is a problem - or labs are taking much longer than this - please come and see me.
One credit hour is an amount of work that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and two hours of out-of-class student work per week for a semester during the regular academic year. This means that a 4 credit class will have at least 8 hours per week out-of-class time. LABORATORY GUIDELINES You may discuss things with class members and your LA, but all work handed in must be entirely your own.
Labs must be handed in at the beginning of the next lab period. Late labs will be graded for one half credit. Labs will not be accepted after graded labs have been returned
Labs can be "redone" for half credit. PLEASE make sure we can tell what you have corrected. They will be accepted up to 2 weeks after the lab is returned to the class.
You must pass this to pass the course Identify the "big ten" minerals in Hand Sample and Thin Section Demonstrate proficiency in mineral identification and microscope LAB EXAM techniques
You may retake this exam if approved Four fields trips will be offered. You may attend all, BUT you must attend one.
FIELD TRIPS Friday, Sept. 27 - Sunday, Sept. 29th. - Franklin NJ Sunday, Oct. 20th - Gold panning. Saturday, Nov. 9th - Contrary Creek Sunday, Dec. 1st - Difficult Run.
We run the Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show November 22-24 Please be available at least 4 hours on saturday or sunday that weekend.
This course has been identified as a Students as Scholars Discovery of Scholarship course.
This means that you will be learning about how knowledge is generated and disseminated in mineralogy. We will also discuss the importance of scholarship and mineralogy to society.
We will be looking into in these topics by:-
DISCOVERY OF Comprehensively reviewing a Mineralogical Society of America SCHOLARSHIP (MSA) Journal article COURSE by Robert Hazen (and others) on Mineral Evolution. Dr Hazen was a Robinson Professor at GMU
Investigating aspects of a mineral of your choice. This will include evaluation of peer-reviewed literature and websites and applying appropriate scholarly conventions such as the MSA style guide
Helping to run the annual Gem, Mineral and Fossil show at GMU
To learn more about Students as Scholars, visit oscar.gmu.edu.
The integrity of the University community is affected by the individual choices made by each of us. GMU has an Honor Code with clear guidelines regarding academic integrity. Three ACADEMIC fundamental and rather simple principles to follow at all times are INTEGRITY that: (1) all work submitted be your own; (2) when using the work or ideas of others, including fellow students, give full credit through accurate citations; and (3) if you are uncertain about the ground rules on a particular assignment, ask for clarification. No grade is important enough to justify academic misconduct.
ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY & Lectures given in this class are my intellectual property. TAPING LECTURES If you have a legitimate reason to tape the lectures from the Office of Disability Services, they will have a form which I can sign. If you want to tape the lectures for other reasons, see me. I have a form for you to sign. If you want to use the recording for your learning, it is best to transcribe the material as soon as you can after the lecture to clarify your notes. If you record also take notes. I will say things in class that may not be correct, or may not be my personal views to start a conversation, or get a response. Please do not transribe or use things said in the lecture by other students as you do not have their approval to record them. Maybe paraphrase their question if you need it to connect to a thought.
It is probably illegal to post my notes to the internet or on any other foram. The University and I own the rights to this material
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COURSE SCHEDULE
DATE TOPIC READINGS LABORATORY
What is Mineralogy? What is a WEEK 1 mineral? Class Mineral: Chapter 1. Hazenite Introduction. Homework: Mineral concept AUGUST 26 Syllabus Monday map. Due Wednesday August 28th
Mineral Concept map. Physical properties of minerals. Chapters 6. Physical AUGUST 28 Chemical Elements and Properties. LAB 1 Physical properties of Wednesday Bonding #1. Chapters 3. Chemical Minerals. Questions on Syllabus? elements. p. 50-67 Tactics to identify minerals in Hand Sample (HS) WEEK 2 Hardness, fracture and luster.
LABOR DAY Chapters 1 and 6 (IM) SEPTEMBER 2 No class Monday
SEPTEMBER 4 Mineral classification. Wednesday Chapter 1 Systematic mineralogy. LAB 2 Hand Specimen Mineralogy. Streak, color, diaphaneity, and cleavage. Atoms and bonding #2. Silicate Chapter 1, and p. 219- WEEK 3 structures. Ionic sizes. 222 SEPTEMBER 9 The "Big 10" minerals Monday Chapters 1 and 6 (IM)
Chapter 2 p. 14-18, 38-46, Table 2.4 6 Crystal Systems. SEPTEMBER 11 Homework: 6 crystal systems Chapter 7, p. 142- Wednesday due september 16th 149.
Light. Literature LAB 3 Assignment 1. Go over minerals from Lab 2 Due September 25 Introduction to petrographic microscope 6 Crystal Systems and light Thin Sections (TS). (continued). Light (PPL and X-pols) WEEK 4 Big Bang and elements. Chapter 7 p. 142-149 (IM) Journey to the Center of the Assigned readings. Chapters 1 and 2 (IOM) Earth. SEPTEMBER 16 Hazen - paper Monday Homework: History of the Earth - Time scale due September 18th in class
History of the Earth continued. Mineral Quiz 1 SEPTEMBER 18 Crystallization. Symmetry Chapter 2 p 12-14 Wednesday concepts, 2-D and 3-D space. LAB 4 Cubic symmetry. Crystalization from an aqueous solution WEEK 5
Minerals in Sedimentary rocks Cubic System symmetry.
calcite / aragonite Chapter 7 p. 149-150 (IM) Northern Virginia phase diagram due september Chapters 2 and 5 - isotropic Mineral Club meeting. 25 minerals (IOM)
p. 128-136
calcite / aragonite Literature
SEPTEMBER 25 Assignment 1 due Color in Minerals. Chemical Wednesday today. substitution LAB 5 Literature Luminescence Precipitation. Assignment 2 Anisotropic minerals. due October 9th Pleochroism Extinction SEPTEMBER 27th - 29th 3 day Field trip - Franklin Interference colors or birefringence friday saturday sunday NJ
Carbonates in TS and HS WEEK 6 One component phase diagrams e.g. quartz and water Chapter 5. 89-91 P. 150-155, 164-165 (IM) Phase diagrams and phase SEPTEMBER 30th Chapter 5 (IOM) Monday rule.
OCTOBER 1st - Selective Withdrawal OCTOBER 29th
OCTOBER 2 Minerals in Igneous Rocks Wednesday (Intro text) Mineral Quiz 2 Mineral formulae. Homework: balancing simple LAB 6. equations due october 10th Crystal growth from melt. Crystal symmetry: tetragonal and hexagonal Anisotropic minerals: Uniaxial WEEK 7 Uniaxial interference figures.
OCTOBER 7 EXAM 1 Quartz and Calcite revisited Monday P. 158, 167-172 (IM) Chapter 6 (IOM)
Literature Minerals in Metamorphic rocks assignment 2 due OCTOBER 9 (Intro Text). today. Wednesday Plotting mineral compositions LAB 7. on diagrams Literature Anisotropic minerals. Biaxial Assignment 3 monoclinic, orthorhombic and due October 23rd. triclinic symmetry
OCTOBER 14 Biaxial interference figures and 2V. UNIVERSITY IS CLOSED Monday extinction angles.
Silicate minerals & Chapter 7 (IM) WEEK 8 classification Chapter 11. P. 74-77, 88, 94-105 (IOM)
OCTOBER 15 Homework silicate minerals: Mineral Evolution Tuesday Early stages in Earth Formation Paper due wednesday 17th
Earth Formation
OCTOBER 16 Economic Minerals. Assigned readings Wednesday Economic Minerals Homework Mineral Quiz 3 due October 21 LAB 8 OCTOBER 20 Length fast / length slow Potomac, Maryland Sunday Gold Panning Polymorphs
Economic Minerals Part 1. WEEK 9
Internal order and symmetry Native elements Sulfides. Halides. OCTOBER 21 Plane lattices. Chapter 2 (HS) Monday H-M symbols. Stereographic projections .
Chapter 5
Literature assignment 3 due OCTOBER 23 Phase diagrams - binaries and today. Wednesday LAB 9 solid solution. Economic Minerals Part 2. Oxides Literature and Hydroxides. Assignment 4 due November 13th Crystallography and symmetry. Part 1. A paper and computer lab WEEK 10 Symmetry Lab
OCTOBER 28 Symmetry. Chapter 2 Monday Northern Virginia Mineral Club meeting.
Chemical analysis of minerals p. 200-208, OCTOBER 30 Wednesday Mineral evolution Mineral Quiz 4 Mineral Evolution Minerals and the complexity of paper LAB 10. life due November 5th
WEEK 11 Systematic review of silicates. Part 1. Review for Test 2 Orthosilicates, Sorosilicates, and NOVEMBER 4 Cyclosilicates Monday
NOVEMBER 6 Exam 2 Wednesday
Contrary Creek, acid mine Mineral Quiz 5 Assigned NOVEMBER 9 drainage This is done one-on-one. Get Saturday near Lake Anna, VA Angela, Shannon, Dylan or I when you are ready to take this quiz. Complete before Thanksgiving Mineral Evolution Paper and current
WEEK 12 Extreme conditions and readings mineralogy LAB 11 Literature Systematic review of silicates. Part NOVEMBER 11 Homework: Mars mineralogy Assignment 5 2. Monday due November 13 assigned. Phyllosilicates and Inosilicates. Due November 20th onwards
Current readings LAB 12 NOVEMBER 13 Extraterrestrial mineralogy. Systematic review of silicates. Part Wednesday Mars Rovers Literature 3. assignment 4 due tectosilicates today.
WEEK 13
Dr Robert Hazen LAB 13 Smithsonian lab - due NOVEMBER 18 monday December 2nd. Monday
Presentations 1. NOVEMBER 20 Chapters 11-16 Wednesday FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNED Silicates Revisited Describing thin sections. Due on Friday December 6th at 5:00 NOVEMBER 22nd-24th 25th Annual Gem Mineral pm friday saturday sunday and Fossil Show Time to work on final project in WEEK 14 class Presentations 2.
NOVEMBER 25 Mineral Show: Show and Tell Mineral Quiz 6 Assigned Monday This is done one-on-one. Get Angela, Shannon, Dylan or I when you are ready to take this quiz. THANKSGIVING Complete before 5:00 pm December 6th NO CLASSES NOVEMBER 27 - DECEMBER 1 WEEK 15 Presentations 3. LAB 13 due today DECEMBER 2 Silicates Revisited Monday
DECEMBER 5 LAB EXAM WednesdayWEEK 15 Asbestos You must pass this to pass the course
MINQUIZ 6 must be DECEMBER 7 completed by today Friday at 5:00
FINAL EXAM
DECEMBER 13th 10:30 - 1:15 p.m. wednesday Reading Days - December 9- 10.
LAB IS REQUIRED Lab topics will not always coincide with lecture topics
GRADING Exam I 20 points Exam II 20 points Final Exam 35 points 11 of 13 Labs 55 points lowest 2 are dropped 5 of 6 Mineral quizzes 25 points lowest is dropped Literature assignments 20 points 10 points Homeworks Graded 2, 1, 0 Final Project 10 points Pesentation 5 points attend 5 out of 7 Seminars. Thursday 4:30 exchange for what you need Lab or mineral quiz- 100% TOTAL 200 points
IMPORTANT - ALL STUDENTS NEED TO READ THIS
• ALL EXAMS MUST BE TAKEN AS SCHEDULED • NO-ONE MAY START AN EXAM AFTER THE FIRST STUDENT HAS FINISHED AND LEFT THE ROOM • All exams will emphasize material presented in lecture BUT you are also responsible for material contained in the readings. • Exams will also test your ability to apply the knowledge-learned to other situations. • The course operates under the rules of The Honor Code.
Please be familiar with THE HONOR CODE.
• Exams are closed book and your answers must be your own. • It is advisable to read the assigned material before it is covered in class. • Personal identification maybe REQUIRED during exams so please be sure that you have your student ID Card with you on exam days.