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Lab lecture 1
Introduction to Optical Mineralogy: We will discuss the syllabus,
assign microscopes, and go over the details of their use and
care. There will be a short lecture on the properties of visible
light and its interaction with crystalline (and glassy) matter.
Click on Lab lecture 1 (above) for a powerpoint summary of lab lecture
1 and click on lab 1 (below) for details on the first lab assignment.
Lab
1 Exercise (Introduction to microscope)
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Lab
Lecture 2
Lab
2a Exercise (Isotropic minerals, Refractive indices)
Lab
Lecture 3
Lab
2b Exercise (Uniaxial minerals)
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Lab Lecture 4
Lab
3 Exercise (Mon and Wed) Biaxial minerals
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Lab
Lecture 5
Lab 3
Exercise (cont.) (Mon) Biaxial minerals
lab 4
exercise (Wed) Review of common felsic minerals
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Lab
4 exercise (cont.) (Mon) Felsic minerals
Lab
5 Exercise (Wed) Review of mafic minerals
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Lab
6 Exercise Mon and Wed (Ultramafic rocks)
Ultramafic
rocks classification diagram
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Lab
7 Exercise Mon and Wed Mafic volcanics
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Lab
8 exercise Mon and Wed Mafic Plutonics
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Lab
9 Exercise Mon and Wed Intermediate and felsic volcanics
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Lab
10 Exercise Mon and Wed Intermediate and felsic plutonics
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