Optical Mineralogy and Petrography

GEOL-G 403

Prerequisites: G205 and G222

Semester(s) Offered:
Not Currently Offered

Identification of rock-forming minerals in fragments and thin sections using principles of optical crystallography and the petrographic microscope. Description of common igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and interpretation of their genesis using hand specimens and thin sections.

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