296-492 Crustal Materials Class Notes

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of 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 (Titanite)
    • 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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Created Sept. 3, 1997, Last Update 13 September 2018

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