Geos 306, Mineralogy, Fall 2007
Professor Bob Downs
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Lecture Notes
  1. Mon 20 Aug. Introduction
  2. Wed 22 Aug. Origin of the Elements, Nature of the Atom
  3. Mon 27 Aug. The Chemical Bond I.
  4. Wed 29 Aug. The Chemical Bond II.
  5. Mon 3 Sept. No class - Labor Day
  6. Wed 5 Aug. The Packing of Atoms
  7. Mon 10 Sept. Pauling's Rules
  8. Wed 12 Sept. Crystal Chemistry
  9. Mon 17 Sept. Midterm
  10. Wed 19 Sept. Crystallography I. Unit cells
  11. Mon 24 Sept. Crystallography I. Unit cells, continued
  12. Wed 26 Sept. Crystallography I. Unit cells, continued
  13. Mon 1 Oct.Crystallography II. Lattices and Symmetry
  14. Wed 3 Oct.Crystallography II. Lattices and Symmetry, continued
  15. Mon 8 Oct. No Class
  16. Wed 10 Oct. Crystallography III. X-ray Diffraction
  17. Mon 15 Oct. Crystallography III. X-ray Diffraction, continued
  18. Wed 17 Oct. Crystallography III. X-ray Diffraction, continued
  19. Mon 22 Oct. Chemistry of minerals
  20. Wed 24 Oct. Midterm
  21. Mon 29 Oct. No class, GSA
  22. Wed 31 Oct. No class, GSA
  23. Mon 5 Nov. Optics I
  24. Wed 7 Nov. Optics II
  25. Mon 12 Nov. No class - Veterans Day
  26. Wed 14 Nov. Mineralogy of the Earth's Core
  27. Mon 19 Nov. Mineralogy of the Earth's Lower Mantle
  28. Wed 21 Nov. Mineralogy of the Earth's Upper Mantle
  29. Mon 26 Nov. Mineralogy of the Earth's Upper Mantle II
  30. Wed 28 Nov. Mineralogy of the Earth's Crust I
  31. Mon 3 Dec. Mineralogy of the Earth's Crust II
  32. Wed 5 Dec. Biomineralogy
  33. Wed 5 Dec. Last class

Class Project: description, due during class, Dec 5, 2007
Lecture Final exam: Wed 12 Dec, 11-1
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