Class notes for GEOL3010 Earth Materials

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• Lecture Schedule - M, W -  9:05- 9:55 AM (Room 325)
• Lab Schedule- M, W - 1:25-3:20 PM or 3:35-5:30 PM 
• Course format
  
• Phone: 542-2384
• e-mail: schroe@gly.uga.edu
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Lecture 1 - Introduction - Definition of a mineral

Lecture 2 - Ordered patterns

Lecture 3 - Geometric operations

Lecture 4 - Crystal morphology

Lecture 5 - Bravais lattices

Lecture 6 - Miller indices

Lecture 7 - Directions in a crystal

Lecture 8 - Polymorphs and polytypes

Lecture 9 and 10 - X-ray crystallography - Bragg's law

Lecture 11 - X-ray crystallography - Crystal structure determination

Lecture 12 - Crystal chemistry - Atomic radii and bonding

Lecture 13 - Crystal chemistry - Coordination principles

Lecture 14 - Crystal chemistry - Pauling's rules

Lecture 15 - Crystal chemistry - Elemental analysis and unit cell contents

Lecture 16 - Crystal chemistry - Solid solutions