| PREREQUISITES | GEOL 101 and 102 (Grade C or above) CHEM 211 (can be a co-requisit) |
| CLASS MEETS | Monday 1:30 - 3:20 pm, Innovation Room 139 |
| INSTRUCTORS | Dr. Julia Nord, 3055 David King Hall Email Address - jnord@gmu.edu |
| OFFICE HOURS | Julia - Monday 3:30 - 5:00 in the lab others TBD |
| TEXTS | Handouts as appropriate |
| OBJECTIVES |
* Understanding reactions and processes operating in minerals and mineral associations * a course for students in Mineralogy (GEOL 302) or that have taken Mineralogy elsewhere, and are going into GEOL 304, Sedimentary Geology or GEOL 308, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. * as this is the first time for this course, if you have areas of mineraology that you wish to cover, please let me know. |
| FIELD TRIPS | Three fields trips will be offered. Friday, Sept. 28 - Sunday, Sept. 30th. - Franklin NJ Sunday, Oct. 28th - Gold panning. Saturday, Nov. 10 th - Contrary Creek I would like you to participate in the Mineral Show November 16-18 |
| DATE | TOPIC | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| WEEK 1 AUGUST. 27 Monday |
Plate tectonics. Plotting and interpreting data across a subduction zone. | Subduction zone |
| WEEK 2 SEPTEMBER 3 Monday |
LABOR DAY | Hello |
| WEEK 3 SEPTEMBER 10 Monday |
Single phase diagrams. Phase rule. | Quartz phase diagram Water phase diagram |
| WEEK 4 SEPTEMBER 17 Monday |
Concepts of stability and activation energy | Graphite / diamond and calcite / aragonite phase diagrams. |
| WEEK 5 SEPTEMBER 24 Monday Northern Virginia Mineral Club meeting. |
Simple binary. | Anorthite/ diopside phase diagram. |
| SEPTEMBER 28th - 30th friday saturday sunday |
3 day Field trip - Franklin NJ |
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| WEEK 6 OCTOBER 1 Monday |
Simple binaries with thermal divide. Gibbs Free Energy for a binary phase diagram |
Quartz - plagioclase - nepheline phase diagram |
| WEEK 7 OCTOBER 9 Tuesday |
Simple solid solution | plagioclase / olivine / dolomite - ankerite |
| WEEK 8 OCTOBER 15 Monday |
Exsolution. |
Feldspars. Pyroxenes |
| WEEK 9 OCTOBER 22 Monday Northern Virginia Mineral Club meeting. |
Calcite solubility. Calculating and plotting C stability. | Magnesite - dolomite - calcite. |
| OCTOBER 28 Sunday |
Gold Panning |
Potomac, Maryland |
| WEEK 10 OCTOBER 29 Monday |
Congruent and incongruent melting. Basic thermodynamics - what makes a reaction go. Entropy. Enthalpy. | |
| WEEK 11 NOVEMBER 5 | Calculating and plotting Kyanite - andalusite - siliminite in PT space | |
| NOVEMBER 10 Saturday | Contrary Creek, acid mine drainage | near Lake Anna, VA |
| WEEK 12 NOVEMBER 12 | weathering in the tropics. Al stability | |
| NOVEMBER 16th-18th friday saturday sunday | 21st Annual Gem Mineral and Fossil Show | |
| WEEK 13 NOVEMBER 19 | Fe stability. BIF. eH diagrams | |
| THANKSGIVING NOVEMBER 21 - 25 | NO CLASSES | |
| WEEK 14 NOVEMBER 26 Northern Virginia Mineral Club meeting. | Where is the data?. Simple software | |
| WEEK 15 DECEMBER 3 | Isotopes (stable). Simple software. | |
| NO FINAL EXAM | ||
| DECEMBER 19th monday Geological Society of Washington | ||
| DECEMBER 24th monday Northern Virginia Mineral Club meeting. |
| 12 of 14 classes lowest 2 are dropped | 7 points each 84 points |
| attendance | 7 points |
| Participation | 9 points |
| TOTAL | 100 points |