296-492 Crustal Materials Class Notes

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, Universityof Wisconsin - Green Bay

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• Composition of the Earth
  • How to Identify Rocks and Minerals
• symmetry
• symmetry around a Point
• One-Dimensional symmetry
• symmetry in the Plane 
• The 14 Bravais Lattices
• Three-Dimensional Point symmetry
• The 32 Crystallographic Point Groups
• Optional: The 230 Three-Dimensional Space Groups
• Crystals and Unit Cells
• Atomic structure
  • Atomic structure and Density
  • Pauling's Rules
  • Coordination
  • Close-Packed structures
  • Symmetrically Packed structures
• Important Atomic structures in Minerals
• Ice structure
• Halite structure
• Diamond structure
• Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite
• Pyrite structure
• Spinel structure
• Rutile structure
• Perovskite structure
• Calcite structure
• Goethite-Diaspore structure
• Lepidocrocite-Boehmite structure
• Silicate structures
  • Nesosilicates and Sorosilicates
    • Olivine
    • Garnet
    • Andaluslite
    • Kyanite
    • Sillimanite
    • Sphene.htmSphene
    • Lepidocrocite and Boehmite structure
    • Topaz
    • Zircon
    • Staurolite
    • Epidote
  • Cyclosilicates
    • Benitoite and Wadeite (3-membered rings)
    • Beryl and Cordierite
    • Tourmaline
  • Inosilicates
  • Phyllosilicates
  • Tectosilicates
    • Quartz
    • Silica polymorphs
    • Feldspar
    • Scapolite
• The Stereographic Projection
• Crystals and Light
• Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section
• Identification Charts for Minerals in Thin Section
• Classification of Igneous Rocks
• Norms
• Variation Diagrams
• Igneous Phase Diagrams
• Metamorphic Phase Diagrams
• Schreinemaker Analysis
• Metamorphic Rocks
  • Low-Temperature (Zeolite) Facies
  • Contact (Hornfels) Facies
  • Low-Pressure (Abukuma) Facies
  • "Normal" Moderate-Pressure (Barrovian) Facies
  • Barrovian Metamorphism of Carbonate Rocks
  • Granulite Facies
  • Blueschist Facies

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