Mineralogy
GEL220 - Prof. Kurt Friehauf
Lecture and
Lab - Boehm Science Bldg. #126
Office - Boehm Science Bldg. # 135 - coffee's probably brewing so follow your nose
Tel. (610) 683-4446
(not
a great method for catching me)
email 
Course
syllabus
Contents
Pop Quiz Materials
Term Presentation
This will be a 5 minute presentation for Tuesday, December x, 2012.
There is a very high standard required
for this short presentation, so do not put this off to the last
minute!!!!
This presentation is worth worth 300,000,000 points. (If
points were years, that would be late
Pennsylvanian - long before dinosaurs developed
-- if points were seconds, that would be almost 9½ years!)
- Your objective is to explain the research thoroughly to your
classmates:
- the background science,
- the relevance of the research,
- the research discovery itself, and
- the broader implications.
- Use of note cards is strictly forbidden. Know your
material.
- Practice your talk at least once to make sure you're timing is
appropriate. Presentations that are too short or too long
will suffer.
- Dress business
casual to International
business attire - as you would for a professional
presentation in a business setting or to a group of fellow
scientists. Poor attire will result in points docked.
- You will need to use supplementary graphics not included in
the paper.
- You may elect to redraft graphics using CorelDraw or Adobe
Illustrator that are of substandard quality and/or do not
clearly serve your intended purpose.
- There will be a short question/answer session afterward -
another reason to know your material.
Assignment - please email
your title/topic to me ASAP
- Note:
Our library carries Geology in
electronic format accessible via the web - simply go to
the Rohrbach Library Catalog and
do a Journal Title Search
for Geology
(Boulder) published by the Geological Society of
America. We have both paper copies in the Periodicals Collection
and Online Resource:
Electronic Journal access (since January 2006).
Electronic Journal articles are in PDF format and are
instantly available (i.e., no Inter-library Loan
delays!) Accessing electronic journal articles from off
campus, however, is often not possible - you'll need to use
university computers.
My writing tips
for term papers, etc.
(please revisit this section later
in the semester)
Lab notes
- Current
mineral list
- Spreadsheets for lab
- Basic mineral list (minerals you should recognize with 95-100%
consistency)
- Intermediate level mineral list (minerals you should be able
to recognize at least 80% of the time)
- Advanced level mineral list (minerals you should be able to
recognize more often than not.)
- Supcrt92 thermodynamic database (with annotated instructions)
- Notes on making thin sections - using microscopes
- Percent estimation practice
(This took me about two hours to make, so please use it!)
- Chemical
Classification of Minerals flash cards (It's 25 megabytes,
so it may take a few moments to download - please be patient.)
Adirondack
Field
trip - Thursday August 30 through Monday September 3, 2012
- Itinerary
- Leave Boehm parking lot at 8:00 sharp
- Two hour drive to Ogdensburg,
NJ
- 10:00-10:15 Snack
- Tour cost: $9.00
- Mine/museum tour 11:00
- Lunch 1:00 - 1:30
- Collect
on rock pile for a while
- Return to Kutztown - probably back around 5:00
- Equipment needs:
- Comfortable boots or sports shoes (i.e., not sandals,
flip
flops, heels, etc.)
- Hand lens
- Swivel magnet
- Scratching tool
- Hammer
- Safety glasses (e.g., here,
here,
here, etc.)
(we
need to talk about these)
- Reasonably warm jacket - we'll be outside collecting and
it's cool underground
- Collecting
- I've requested that we be allowed to collect samples
- They charge $1.50
/ pound of rock (part of how they fund the museum)
- I'll bring a portable UV lamp and box for darkness (to test
samples for fluorescence)
Miscellaneous data
Required
reading - quiz material
- Review questions for Origin of Color article
- (more will be posted
throughout the semester)
Exam study questions
- Exam 1 questions - see Adirondack field trip guidebook -
Tuesday October 4, 2011
- Exam 2 topics - Friday October 28, 2011
- Exam 3 topics - Tuesday November 22, 2011
- Exam 4 topics - Monday December 12, 2011
- Equilibrium constant examples
- Weathering example from class - highly recommended reading!
Extra Credit
There are currently
no
opportunities for extra credit in this class. You must succeed in learning the
required material.
Helpful
and
interesting mineralogy links
Field gear notes
- Hand lenses
- The most common hand lens I've seen geologists use is the
Bausch & Lomb Hastings Triplet 10x (roughly $33).
Higher magnification models have smaller fields of view +
shorter depths of field and so become harder to use.
- I've never seen one of the Value
10x models Kooter's sells, but it looks good (i.e.,
triplet-type optics, larger field of view, and has a very low
price).
With the larger field of view, their 15x or 20x might be worth
looking at! I'll order one for you to see.
(note: Kooter's has a good page
discussing how to choose the right hand lens for you)
- Hammers
- Geologic hammers vary in style, weight, length, and handle
material
- Style: the
front end is always a hammer, but the back end can either be
- pointy spike ("hard rock" hammer) - the pointy end is good
for fitting into small irregularities along fractures in
hard rocks to prying the fracture apart
- flat chisel ("soft rock" hammer) - the flat end is good
for prying apart bedding in sedimentary rocks
- another hammer (crack hammer) - for serious whacking
- Weight: the weight
of the head obviously affects the amount of force you can
impart on the rock
- most hammers have a 22-23 ounce head (pound and a half)
- crack hammers are
- Length: longer
handles give your swing a greater arc and so the head has a
greater velocity at time of impact with the rock.
- 12 inch = most common standard hammer
- 16 inch = common longer style handle
- 24 - 36 inch = specialty handles usually attached to
heavier heads
- Handle material: the material of which
the handle's made affects the vibration in your hands
- rubber (encases steel shaft) = extremely durable, but some
say not as shock absorbent - try to make sure the hammer
head and handle core are part of a single forged piece and
not two pieces of welded metal because the longevity of your
hammer depends
on it!
- leather (encases steel shaft) = sexy leather is said to
absorb shock, but I've found the leather rings eventually
break off, which exposes the metal core and becomes much less
comfortable
to use
- wood = common with longer picks. One of my hammers
has a 3 pound chrome-moly steel head mounted on a standard
sledge handle which I cut down to a comfortable
length. Wood is nice and flexible, but will ultimately
wear as the hammer gets abused (at which time I simply
replace the handle and keep the head).
- Field books
- Some people like plastic and others like cardboard, but in
any case, I strongly recommend a hard cover. I
like the Rite in the Rain TM models. The style of page lining
(columns, fine grid, horizontally lined, etc.) is definitely a
personal choice.
- Dealers
Not particularly useful
links
Recommended preparations
