| Course Description : | This lab introduces the student into the techniques of identifying
rock-forming minerals using the polarized microscope. This
achieved through the measurement of a set of optical properties of
minerals; these include: form, color, pleochroism, interference
colors, types of extinction, interference figures: uniaxial and
biaxial minerals and the 2V angle. The theoretical basis for these
properties will be given as introductions to the labs. The lab will be
given for whole semester three hours weekly. |