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    Syllabus
    Field trip information
    Minerals you need to know by the end of the class
    Minerals to know by the first exam
    Minerals to know by the second exam
    First midterm exam from 2008
    Second midterm exam from 2008
   
Exercises

   Exercise #1
   Exercise #2
   Exercise #3
   Exercise #4
   Exercise #5
   Exercise #6
   Exercise #7
 
 
Grades

   Grades 11-18-09
 
  
Lecture Notes
   
 
  Introduction
   Symmetry and point groups
   Crystal Faces and Miller Indices
   Zones, Forms, Habits
   Introduction to Optics
   Microscopy, isotropic and anisotropic minerals
   Indicatrix
   Color and Pleochroism
   Interference Figures
   
First Mid-term: Everything through Optics



   
X-Ray Diffraction
   
Crystal Chemistry
     Crystal Structures
     Polymorphism and substitutions
     Crystal Growth and phase diagrams
      Structural Defects


   
Second Mid-term: X-ray Diffraction through Structural Defects

  
    Sytematic mineralogy
    Nesosilicates

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