89.301 schedule

Class Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment	Laboratory
9/4	Introductory Remarks
9/6	Introduction	Chapt. 1	Chapter 1 - 1, 2, 3, 4 (Due 9/16)	No Lab
9/9	Materials of the solid earth	Chapt. 2	Chapter 2 - 1, 7, 9, 10, 26 (Due 9/16)
9/11	Fundamentals of Crystal Structures Types of Bonding	Chapt. 4	Chapter 4 - 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (Due 9/27)
9/13	Atomic packing and coordination numbers, Pauling's Rules		Coordination numbers & bond strength Ionic radii	Lab 1 - Crystal Structures (Due 9/20)
9/16	Silicate structures, Ionic substitutions
9/18	Introduction to Crystallography - Symmetry Operations, Point Groups, Crystal Systems	Chapt. 5	Chapter 5 - 1, 4, 7, 8, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25, 26 (Due 10/4)
9/20	Crystal forms and Miller Indices		Symmetry and Miller Indices exercise	Lab 2 - Symmetry & Miller Indices
9/23	GSA - no class - Independent study
9/25	GSA - no class - Independent study
9/27	Twins and space groups			Lab 2 - Continued (Due 10/4)
9/30	Space groups and polymorphs
10/2	Mineral Properties and Identification	Chapt. 3	Chapter 3 - 1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13 (Due 10/18)
10/4	Mineral Properties and Identification		Crystal forms, systems, and symmetry exercise	Lab 3 - Crystal Forms (Due 10/11)
10/7	Mineral Properties and Identification, X-ray Crystallography		Bragg's Law calculations
10/9	Review
10/11	Exam I: Chapts. 1,2,4, & 5		X-ray crystallography exercise Data Sheet for X-ray crystallography exercise Forensic exercise	Lab 4 - X-ray Crystallography
10/14	No class - Columbus Day
10/15	Polarizing Light Microscopy	Chapt. 6	Chapter 6 - 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 (Due 10/25)
10/16	Polarizing Light Microscopy
10/18	The Polarizing Light Microscope			Lab 4 - continued (Due 10/25)
10/21	Polarizing Light Microscopy
10/23	Igneous Rock Forming Minerals	Chapt. 7	Chapter 7 - 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 20, 22 (Due 11/1)
10/25	Igneous Rock Forming Minerals		Determination of specific gravity exercise Mineral Separation on the basis of magnetic properties exercise	Lab 5 - Density and Magnetism Group 1
10/28	Igneous Rock Forming Minerals
10/30	Sedimentary Rock Forming Minerals	Chapt. 11	Chapter 11 - 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 (Due 11/8)
11/1	Sedimentary Rock Forming Minerals			Lab 5 - Density and Magnetism Group 2
11/4	Metamorphic Rock Forming Minerals	Chapt. 14	Chapter 14 - 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 21 (Due 11/15)
11/6	Metamorphic Rock Forming Minerals
11/8	Earth Materials and Human Health	Chapt. 18	Mineral Identification Mineral Identification Worksheet	Lab 6- Identification of Minerals in Hand Specimen
11/11	No class - Veterans Day		Chapter 18 - 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 (Due 11/25)
11/13	Review
11/15	Exam II: Chapts. 3, 6, & 7			Lab 6 - Continued (Due 11/22)
11/18	Earth Materials and Human Health
11/20	Earth Materials and Human Health
11/22	Earth Materials and Human Health			Lab 7 - Determination of the index of refraction of an isometric mineral - Group 1
11/25	Earth Materials and Human Health
12/2	No class (snow day)
12/4	Student Mineral Presentations		See Supplemental Material page for Mineral Presentations
12/6	Student Mineral Presentations			Lab 7 - Determination of the index of refraction of an isometric mineral - Group 2
12/9	Student Mineral Presentations
12/11	Student Mineral Presentations

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