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EOSC 321: Preliminary Lecture Syllabus 2018

Location: ESB 2012

Lecture Times: Tues & Thurs 11-12 AM

Teaching Assistants: Ehsan Salmabadi (Head TA), Sofya Niyazova and Dylan Cone

 

Date

Topic

Lecturer

Reading: Chapters in Winter  custom edition

Reading: Chapters in Winter 2001 and 2010 textbook

Additional

material for studies

Lecture notes with answers to wake-up problems

 

1

Week 1-1

 Imagine Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Week 1-2

 Introduction

Kopylova

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Week 2-1

 Igneous Petrology: Review and Significance

 

Kopylova

p. 36-62

 “Igneous Structures and Field relationships”

4

 

 

 

4

Week 2-2

 Mineral Formulae Quiz 1. Rock classification and rock norm

 

Kopylova

p. 23-33,  213-214

Appendix,

“Classification and nomenclature of igneous rocks”

 

2, 8.4, Appendix

List of minerals to memorize for the class

 

 

5

Week 3-1

Interpretation of fabric. Crystallization behavior of melts

 

Kopylova

p. 66-71,

97-104,

“Textures of igneous rocks”

 

3.1, 6.1, 6.2

 

 

 

6

Week 3-2

 Binary Systems

Kopylova

p. 105-110

“The phase rule and one-and two-component systems”

 6.5.1-6.5.2

 

 

 

 

7

Week 4-1

 Binary Eutectic and Peritectic Systems

Kopylova

p. 105-110

 6.5.1-6.5.3

 

 

 

Answer key to worksheet

 

9

Week 4-2

 Zoning and other applications of phase diagrams

Kopylova

p.117-120

 

 3.1.3, 6.5.4

 

 

 

10

Week 5-1

 Ternary Systems I

Kopylova

p.117-120

 7.1.1

 

 

 

11

Week 5-2

 Ternary Systems II. Bring a ruler and a calculator to the class

Kopylova

p. 70-71,

113-115

 

Home assignment

 

 

12

Week 6-1

Mantle petrology

Kopylova

 

p. 161-165

 10.1

 

 

13

Week 6-2

 Melting

 

Kopylova

p. 165-168,

130-134

 

7.4-7.5, 10.2

 

 

 

14

Week 7-1

Interpretation of major element chemistry

 

Kopylova

p. 207-218,

182-184,

193

 8.5, 9.5, 9.6

 

 

 

15

Week 7-2

 Batch Melting m

 

Kopylova

p. 185-186,

224-228

 9.2.1,   8.7

 

 

 

16

Week 8-1

 

Tholeiitic and Alkaline magmatism. Rare Earth Elements

  Kopylova

p. 187-191

9.3

 

 

 

17

Week 8-2

 Isotopes

Kopylova

p. 194,

196-197,

199-204

9.7.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18

Week 9-1

Mid-Term Exam

 

 

19

Week

9-2

 MOR Magmatism

 

Kopylova

p. 288-313

13

 Download template for tectonomagmatic cheat sheet

 

20

Week

10-1

Large Igneous Provinces

 Moerhuis

 

 

 

 

21

Week

10-2

Ocean Island Basalts  

 Kopylova

p. 255-286

 14

  

 

22

Week

11-1

 Continental Rifts

 Kopylova

p. 413-424,

 

 

19.1

  

 

23

Week

11-2

Mineral Formulae Quiz 2. Carbonatites and kimberlites

 

Kopylova

p. 424-450

19.2, 19.3

 List of minerals to memorize for the class

 

24

Week

12-1

Island Arc Magmatism

Kopylova

p. 346-368

16

  

 

 

25

Week

12-2

Continental Arcs

 

 

Kopylova

p. 385-410

17

 

 

 

26

Week

13-1

Student presentations of lab projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27

Week 13-2

 Student presentations on Lab projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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