Syllabus - Petrologic Mineralogy

Petrologic Mineralogy
Geol 7900

Syllabus (pending hurricanes)
Friday: 11:30 am - 2:20 pm

Instructor: Professor Dr. Barb Dutrow
Office 203, Howe-Russell Building (Old Geology)
Office hours: 2:30-3:30 W or by appointment
Home Page: http://www.geol.lsu.edu/dutrow
E-mail: dutrow@lsu.edu

Reading Materials:
                Required:
                    Geol 7900 Petrological Mineralogy
                                    (course packet available from www.minsocam.org) - page numbers (xx-yy) in course packet given in purple bold italics CP: xx-yy
For Review:
                     Mineralogy textbook
                        e.g. Klein & Dutrow (K-D), Manual of Mineral Sciences, 23rd Edition, J. Wiley & Sons
               Petrology textbook
                         e.g. Winter, J. Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
                     Advances topics: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry (RiM, RiMG) series, Mineralogical Society of America
                                           (become a MSA student member for only $15. and receive a 20% discount. www.minsocam.org

Supplies: Three-ring binder for compiling handouts, notes

Additional information: Some lectures will be split with laboratory exercises and/or problem sets.
            Texting and use of cellular devices is not permitted during class. Cell phones should be turned off and stored during lecture. Photos via cell phones are permitted in lab.

Grading: Based on a combination of lecture tests, assignments, homework, (unannounced) quizzes, presentations, attendance and
participation in class. Final exam is comprehensive.
                Weighing: 30% lecture tests; 30% homework, quizzes; 30% final project; 10% presentations;

                Class absences should be reported PRIOR to class.

Date	Topic: Lecture and Lab	Reading, Assignments To be completed prior to class Homework due next class period

Aug 28	Introduction to and overview of the course: Minerals as indicators of P, T, X, t, provenance: Objectives, Discussion of Projects Knowledge Survey - Review: Basics of Crystallography: Pauling's Rules; Crystal Chemistry, Solid Solution, stoichiometry, balancing chemical reactions Visualizing Mineral Structures	Review your Mineralogy: Crystallography, Crystal Chemistry, Paulings' rules K&D: Chapters 3 - 6, portions as needed Homework: - Select a project related to thesis work (or discuss with me about a project)
Sept 4	Analytical Methods for Imaging and Mineral Chemical Determination: Optical, SEM, BSE, CL, EMPA (Electron Microprobe Analyses) Tour SIF (Dr. Loehn, SIF director) Optical Lab	Geochemical Instrumentation and Imaging pages from SERC SEM, BSE, CL, EMPA** Homework: - Stoichiometric calculations of mineral formulae
Sept 11	Minerals as pressure-temperature indicators Introduction to thermodynamics: Review More thermo: determining equilibrium; element partitioning, KDs, effect of solid solution on mineral stabilities: Activity models: ideal, non-ideal, fugacity	Mineral Stability; K-D P-T, G-X, T-X diagrams (Wood and Fraser) D. Waters: Energy of mixing D. Waters: Ideal mixing , non-ideal Elements 6: 287-292 CP: Homework: calculating stability boundaries, phase diagrams
Sept 18	P-T indicator minerals: Review of garnets, mica, feldspar, amphibole crystal chemistry Mineral Zoning, imaging Optical review	Garnets: K-D p. 487-490 Elements 9: 415-426; 439 - 452; CP: micas, K-D p. 456-467, 519-533 amphiboles: K-D p. 446-450, 505-510 RiMG v. 67, ch. 1 CP: fsp: K-D p. 446-450, 505-510 Miscibility Gaps, Exsolution K-D p. 276-281 Homework: - Stoichiometric calculations of mineral formulae
Sept 25	Geothermobarometry: What makes a good thermometer? barometer? GASP, garnet-biotite geothermometers; gar - cpx Plagioclase-Amphibole, Cpx-Opx	D. Waters: Mineral thermobarometry D. Waters: Thermobarometry tools Classic papers from the literature - Ferry and Spear, Newton, etc. Elements 9: 427 - 432 Homework: calculating P-T
Oct 2	Whole rock phase equilibrium modeling - Theriak Domino or Perplex XRF analyses Comparison with thermobarometry	Elements 6: 309-314 CP: deCapitani, et al. Homework: calculating P-T via pseudosections
Oct 9	Igneous thermometers; pyx - liquid; ol- liquid, 2 fsp; Al-in-hbl; QUILF	Putirka, RiM 69: 61-120; 121 - 142 Homework: calculating P-T
Oct 16	Mid-term exam; work on project
Oct 23	P-T indicators - Single mineral thermobarometers: Ti-in-biotite; Ti-in-zircon, Zr-in-rutile Saturation surfaces Linking P-T to t (student presentations)	Rutile Watson et al. (2006) - Spear et al. (2006) Zircon: RiMG v. 53, ch. 4 CP: Biotite: Henry et al. link for program Ti in Biotite Henry et al. (2005) Am.Min. 90:316-328 CP:
Oct 30	Fall Holiday
Nov 6	Telling Time: Minerals as geochronometers: radiogenic dating Introduction to geochronology: Rb/Sr, Sm/Nd, Lu/Hf systems and equations Garnet again	Isotope Geology text Elements 9: p 433-438 CP: Homework - calculating ages
Nov 13	Geochronometers con't. - U/Pb , Radiogenic minerals: zircon, monazite, titanite Project sample due Analytical techniques (LA-ICP-MS, SIMS-SHRIMP, TIMS) used to obtain U/Pb Case Studies using radiogeneic dating (detrital zircon, P-T-t paths) - student presentations	RiM v. 53: Zircon, ch. 1: 1-25, 2: 27 - 62 CP: Elements 3:13-19 CP: iMG v. 48: Monazite selected reading ch. 4, 7,14 CP: http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/labs/microprobe/monazite/home.html RiM v. 5: Titanite - CP: Geochemical Instrumentation and Imaging pages from SERC Elements 3: 25-31 CP: Geochron homework due
Nov. 20	Minerals as thermochronometers: Ar/Ar, U/Th-He Reliability of ArAr dates	Elements 9:45-51 CP: RiMG v 48 chp 15 CP:
Nov 27	Thanksgiving Holiday
	Minerals as provenance indicators Provenance: Tourmaline, Amphiboles, pyroxene, garnets, oxides, zircon, rutile Homework: determining provenance with mineral chemistry	Armstrong et al. (2013) Henry and Dutrow (1992) (1996) Elements 7: CP:
Dec 4	Project presentations All written papers due	See handout for instructions
Dec 12 12:30 - 2:30 pm	Final Exam -

Policy for + and – grading in class: For each numerical score interval used for a given letter grade (A, B, C or D), the upper third of the interval will be assigned a “+” and the lower third will be assigned a “-“. For example, if a “B” range is considered to in the 80-89 scoring range, a “B-“ will be 80-83, a “B” will be 83-86 and a “B+” will be 86-89.

Policy for late assignments: For each weekday (exclusive of vacation days) in which an assignment is late, 5% will be subtracted from the total score possible on the assignment.
For example, if an assignment is two days late and the student received an 80% on the assignment, the score adjusted for late penalty will be 72% (i.e. 90% possible * 0.8).
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Useful Links:

Prof. Dave Waters Instructional Pages
Practical Aspects of Mineral Thermobarometry

Geochemistry
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/Geochemweblinks.HTML