GEOL8550 Spring 2008 Lab Exercises

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• Lab - W - Periods 1 and 2, 8:30 - 9:55 AM (Rooms 325, 322 and 303)
• Phone: 706-542-2384 

Exercise #1 - Make your own Excel settling time calculator

Exercise #2 - XRD analysis of SRM675 Synthetic Fluorophlogopite

Click here for basic XRD operations protocol

Exercise #3 - XRD analysis of your unknown clay sample

Exercise #4 - Recalculation of oxide analysis.

Exercise #5- Calculation of mixed-layer XRD patterns.

The textbook for this class is X-ray Diffraction and the Identification and Anaysis of Clay Minerals by Duane M. Moore and Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. (1997) 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, New York 378 p.