<p>Lecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 1. Recommended: completion of chemistry requirement. Principles of mineralogy. Mineral structure and bonding and crystal chemistry, with focus on materials of interest for Earth and planetary sciences and major rock-forming minerals. Laboratory study of relationship between mineral structure and properties, including hand sample identification, microscopy (optical and electron), X-ray diffraction, and spectroscopy techniques. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

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College of Letters and Science

The disciplines of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleobiology, and space physics are concerned with the structure and evolution of the solar system, Earth, and life.

General Catalog

Mineralogy: Earth and Planetary Materials

EPS SCI 51

4 units