Kursöversikt

Welcome to the course GVG210 Mineralogy, 7.5 credits, Spring 2022

This course consists of different elements, book chapters, recorded lectures, on-line lectures, on-site mineral identification practicals, on-site microscopy and on-line microscopy. Furthermore, I offer you on-line question and answer sessions as well as individual on-line meetings in order to clarify potentially open questions. In order to enable you to structure the course I will explain the different elements in the following:

The book chapters

For this as well as for the Petrology GVG 270 I have chosen a text book:

Cornelis Klein and Anthony Philpotts

Earth Materials 2nd Edition: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1316608852

ISBN-10: 1316608859

It is available at the Cremona Book Store, which is located at the Chalmers campus at the entrance to the cafeteria. Here is the address:

Cremona Chalmers Bokhandel / Chalmers Konferens & Restauranger
Sven Hultins gata 2b | S - 412 58 Göteborg l +46 (0)31-772 39 45
www.chalmersstore.se (Länkar till en externa sida.), www.cremona.se (Länkar till en externa sida.)

I have created a schedule that should serve you as a guide through that course. In this schedule I list all the chapters from the text book that should be read on the respective day. The chapters include explanations, a summary of each chapter, review questions as well as suggestions for further reading. You should read through the chapter, the summary and check your understanding by answering the review questions. Reading the chapters is mandatory as the content of the book forms the basis for the understanding of mineralogical concepts.

The recorded lectures

Some chapters of the book are a very broad and need some further explanations. Therefore, I have recorded several lectures that are linked to the book, but provide additional information about the topics in the book chapters. The recorded lectures are uploaded as video files in the “Files” section of this canvas page. Watching and listening to the recorded lectures is also mandatory as the content of the recorded lectures is important for the practical parts of that course. However, you can watch/listen to the recorded lectures whenever you want, but before the first on-site mineral identification practical you should have listened to the first 7 recorded lectures.

The on-site lectures

Before the mineral identification practicals and the microscopy practicals I will give on-site introductory lectures. 

The question and answer (Q + A) sessions

I have scheduled several Q + A sessions during this course. In these sessions you will have the chance to ask questions and to discuss various topics regarding the lectures and book chapters. I very much encourage you to use this opportunity to clarify open questions. Mineralogy is a very complex topic and the course is certainly very demanding. Thus, it is very likely that everyone has one or more questions regarding one or more topics. Therefore, it is helpful if you write down your questions during reading of the chapters or listening to the lectures and ask them in the Q + A sessions. In case you need further, personal assistance you can also schedule an individual meeting.

The individual meetings

In addition to the Q + A sessions you can send me an email with open questions and, if time allows, I will schedule a short meeting with single students or smaller groups. Do not hesitate to formulate the questions already in the email, so that I can possibly answer the question directly or know at least what the topic of the meeting should be.

The mineral identification and microscopy practicals

Mineralogy is the science that investigates minerals, hence without investigating minerals in a hand specimen this course would be rather pointless! 

• In Berglabbet (2.014) there is limited space and the number of microscopes is also limited, hence, we need to schedule several dates for the mineral identification and microscopy practicals. We will try to do that at the introductory meeting on March 24^th. Dependent on how many students take this course I will try to reduce this number as much as possible.

Have fun 

Matthias

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Kursledare: Matthias Konrad Schmolke

 Studievägledare: Emily Whitehurst Zack

Kursadministratör:  Eugenia Andersson

Utbildningsansvarig: Johan Hogmalm  

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