Geos 306, Mineralogy, Fall 2009
Course Software
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Printable periodic
table in pdf format
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Crystal Sleuth is software used to display Raman spectra and X-ray diffraction profiles, and can be used to identify minerals and characterize them.
Download the executable.
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XtalDraw is an interactive computer
program that draws crystal and molecular structures as ball and stick,
polyhedral, and thermal ellipsoid representations. It comes with
a large set of datafiles. It runs only in Windows.
Not only does it read the XtalDraw datafiles, but it can also read the American
Mineralogist Crystal Structure Data Base files found at
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/AMS/amcsd.php
Download
the program.