EESC 3000: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Spring 2012
| Lecture Topics | Laboratory Topics | ||
| 01/30 |
Environments of Metamorphism,
Associated Textures (Ch 21, 23) |
02/01 | Introduction
to Metamorphic Rocks Lab Assignment 1 |
| 02/06 |
Classification, Metamorphic
Facies (Ch 22, 25) |
02/08 | Describing
Metamorphic Rocks Met Pet Form Lab Assignment 2 |
| 02/15 | Metabasites
(Week 1) Lab Assignments 3 and 4 |
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| 02/21 |
Metamorphic Reactions (Ch 26) |
02/22 |
Metabasites (Week 2) |
| 02/27 | Metamorphism
of Pelitic Rocks (Ch 28) Lecture Notes |
02/29 | Metapelites Lab Assignment 5 |
| 03/05 | Metamorphism
of Carbonate Rocks; Geothermobarometry (Ch 27, 29) Lecture Notes |
03/07 | Metapelites:
Continued Metaperidotites and Marbles Lab Assignment 6 |
| 03/12 | Metamorphic
Review Lecture Notes |
03/14 | Open Review Lab |
| 03/19 | Metamorphic Fluids and Metasomatism (Ch 30) | 03/21 | Metamorphic Exam Copy of Exam |
| 03/26 | Overview of Igneous Processes; Igneous Rock Classification; Igneous Structures and Field Relationships (Ch 1, 2, 3, 4). Lecture Notes | 03/28 | Classification
and Description of Volcanic Rocks in Hand-Sample Igneous Lab Assignment 1 |
| 04/02 | Thermodynamic
Principles; Phase Rule; One- and Two-component systems. (Ch 5, 6) |
04/04 | Felsic
Igneous Rocks in Hand-Sample and Thin-Section |
| 04/16 | Systems with More than Two Components; Bowen's Reaction Series (Ch 7) | 04/18 | Intermediate
Igneous Rocks in Hand-Sample and Thin-Section |
| 04/23 | Chemical Petrology (Ch 8, 9) | 04/25 | Mafic
Igneous Rocks in Hand-Sample and Thin-Section |
| 04/30 | Generation
of Basaltic Magmas; Magmatic Diversification (Ch 10, 11, 12) |
05/02 | Ultramafic and Silica-Undersaturated Igneous Rocks in Hand-Sample and Thin-Section |
| 05/07 | Subduction-Related Igneous Activity (Ch 16, 17) | 05/09 | Open Review Lab |
| 05/14 | Continental
Magmatic Activity (Ch 18, 19, 20) |
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IUGS Glossary of Metamorphic Terms
Recommendations from the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Metamorphic Rocks