Undergraduate Catalog

EPSS 210 Earth Materials

This course introduces the fundamentals of mineralogy, including systematics, chemistry and crystallography, and the physical and optical properties of minerals. The student is introduced to the most common analytical methodologies used in mineralogy and learns to use the petrographic microscope to describe and identify a variety of rock-forming minerals in hand samples and petrographic thin-sections.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CHEM 116, EPSS 200