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GEOS443    Mineralogy
Fall 2004
Beryl. [Photo credit: Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History]
 


 

Millington Mineral Paper (Kent and Butkouwski, 2000)
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Check out the largests crystals on record!How about a garnet that is 60 Meters Across!?

Click here for review questions for the final (compiled and edited from various Mineralogy course homepages) 


Course Description:
This course covers crystallography, optical mineralogy, and silicate mineralogy.  Emphasis is placed on determinative techniques and applications of mineralogy to ennvironmental problems.  The origin, occurrence, and properties of commmon minerals will be studied in lab.  This is a 4-credit lab science course designed for undergraduate majors and graduate students.

Quartz (var. amethyst). [Photo credit: Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History]
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