Syllabus
1) Main types of textures in igneous rocks,
2) Minerals (major, minor a accessory) and textures of plutonic rock (granite, granodiorite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite),
3) Microscopy of volcanic rocks (rhyolite, dacite , andesite a basalts),
4) Relationships among minerals and their successive formation during crystallization
5) Autometamorphic and/or metamorphic alteration of igneous rocks,
6) Classification of rocks based mineral modes and textures.
7) Minerals and structures of metamorphic rocks,
8) Metamorphic textures and index minerals in metamorphic rocks,
9) Prograde and retrograde changes in metamorphic rocks,
10) Mineral formation during prograde metamorphism in politic, mafic, quartz-fledspatic, carbonatic and ultramafic rocks.
11)Classification of metamorphic rocks: phyllites, greenschists, blueschists, gneiss, amphibolite, granulites, eclogites and migmatite,
12) Classification and identification of metamorphic rocks based on textures and index minerals.
Annotation
This course assumes familiarity with the polarizing microscope and an ability to identify some common minerals in thin sections. The main goals of this course will be textural relations among minerals ingneous rocks, succession of mineral formation during crystalization.
In metamorphic rocks, the objective of this course will be textures, microstructures and their interpretation, mineral preferred orientations, relict and metamorphic minerals and classification of rock with respect to degree of metamorphism.