EPS 301: Mineralogy. Fall 2003

Professor Adrian Brearley

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Welcome to the EPS 301 webpage. I'll be posting useful information about the class on this webpage including homeworks and mineral formulae that you will be expected to know for the class. Typically, I will post both kinds of information as both Word files and pdf format files. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the pdf files. It is free program that can be downloaded by clicking on the button just below.

For 2nd list of minerals names and formulae in Word and PDF format click here

Tentative Syllabus - Subject to change

Lectures 1 (T - Aug 26 -)- Intoduction, overview of physical properties of minerals - Pages 1-17

Lecture 2 (Tr - Aug 28) - History and Mineral Classification - Cancelled - please read chapter 2.

Lecture 3 (T - Sept 2) - Geochemisty of Chemical elements, periodic table

Lecture 4 (Tr - Sept 4) - Periodic table, atomic structure, electonic configuration of atoms, isotopes

Lecture 5 - (T - Sept 9) - Ions, ionic bonding

Lecture 6 - (Tr - Sept 11) - Covalent, metallic, van der Waals, and hydrogen bonding, ionic radii

Lectures 7 - (T - Sept 16) - Coordination of atoms

Lecture 8 (Tr - Sept 18) - Pauling's rules, solid solution mechanisms

Lecture 9 (T - Sept 23) - Solid solution mechanisms

Lecture 10 (Tr - Sept 25) - Chemical analyses of minerals and their graphical representation.

- Test 1, Tuesday - September 30th, 2004 - 33% of final grade.

Lecture 11 (Tr - Oct 2) - Mineral reactions: mineral stability, polymorphism, polytypism

Lecture 12 (T - Oct 7) - Mineral reactions: exsolution.

Lecture 13 (Tr - Oct 9) - Introduction to crystal symmetry and symmetry elements

Lecture 14 (T - Oct 14) - Combinations of symmetry elements: Point groups and crystal systems.

Fall Break - October 16-17, 2003

Lecture 15 (T- Oct 21) - Crystal axes and Miller index notation.

Lecture 16 (Tr - Oct 23) - Crystallographic projection.

Lecture 17 (T - Oct 28) - Translational symmetry elements and Bravais lattices

Lecture 18 (Tr - Oct 30) - Space group elements

- Test II , Tuesday - Nov 4, 2004 - 33% of final grade.

Lectures 19 - (Tr - Nov 6) - Space groups and point groups

Lecture 20 (T - Nov 11) - Architecture of silicates

Lecture 21 (Tr - Nov 13) - Tectosilicates

Lectures 22 (T - Nov 18) - Tectosilicates

Lectures 23 (Tr - Nov 20) - Introduction to inosilicates

Lectures 24 (T - Nov 25) - Inosilicates

Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving Holiday

Lectures 25 (T - Dec 2) - Phyllosilicates

Lectures 26 - (Tr - Dec 5) - Phyllosilicates and nesosilicates

Lectures 27 - (T - Dec 9) - nesosilicates

Lectures 28 (Tr - Dec 11) - Introduction to some oxides, carbonates and phosphates

FINAL EXAM - (T - Dec 16) - Test III 33% of total final grade - 7.30 - 9.30 am Room 340, Northrop Hall (E&PS).