Geology 301 Laboratory

Lab TA: Mr. Robert Graves

Rob doesn't have a web page yet, but he will later this quarter....

Materials needed for lab:

In general, always bring your copy of Klein and Hurlburt's text, pencils, rulers, a protractor, and a pocket calculator;

Purchase a hand lens and a small magnet by the fourth week of the quarter.

Special note:

Please be very careful with materials provided for your study in lab. You can do this in two ways: 1) put samples and other materials back in their original location when you are through studying them; and, 2) make sure the lab door is closed and locked when you leave.

The weekly schedule for labs, for the ten weeks of the quarter, are as follows:

Lab #1: Introduction to the lattice, unit cell, and Miller indices. Crystal systems, classes, and forms.

Lab #2: Crystal systems and crystal classes, continued.

Lab #3: X-ray Diffraction Analysis.

Lab #4: Measurement of Physical Properties of Minerals; Native Elements, Oxides, Hydroxides, and Sulfides.

Lab #5: Halides, Phosphates, Sulfates, and Carbonates.

Lab #6: Silicates I: Tectosilicates. Quartz, Feldspars, Feldspathoids, Scapolites, Zeolites.

Lab #7: Silicates II: Phyllosilicates

Lab #8: Silicates III: Inosilicates.

Lab #9: Silicates IV: Cyclosilicates, Sorosilicates, and Nesosilicates.

Beginning with Lab #5, there will be quizzes in lab over the precceding week's material.

A lab final will be given in your last lab meeting, in the week following the Thanksgiving break.