Microscopy of Rock-forming Minerals - MG440C08E

• Title: Microscopy of rock-forming minerals
• Czech title: Mikroskopie horninotvorných minerálů
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Petrology and Structural Geology (31-440)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2020 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: 3
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (07.04.2022)

Target students: bachelor and master level

Goals of this course are to become familiar with the function, adjustment, and use of the petrographic microscope, to understand crystal optics and practical methods of identification of rock-forming minerals (relief, pleochroism, extinction, birefringence, etc.). The student will become familiar with most common rock-forming minerals.

The course material can be found at the following link: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjA0ODAxMDA0ODU2?cjc=bte25bs

Czech

Last update: RNDr. Jana Rubešová, Ph.D. (10.11.2006)

Kurs zahrnuje práci s polarizačním mikroskopem, optické metody studia horninotvorných minerálů (určování indexu lomu, úhlu zhášení, dvojlomu, charakteru minerálu), izotropní a anizotropní minerály, určování optických vlastností jednoosých a dvojosých minerálů při rovnoběžných a zkřížených nikolech a poznávání nejběžnějších horninotvorných minerálů.

Literature

English

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (13.09.2022)

The study material related to all lectures can be found at the following link: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjA0ODAxMDA0ODU2?cjc=bte25bs

Raith MM, Raase P and Reinhardt J (2012, 2nd ed.):  Guide to Thin Section Microscopy:  http://www.minsocam.org/msa/openaccess_publications/#Guide

UK Virtual Microscope: https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/content/uk-virtual-microscope

video atlas of minerals in thin section:  https://www.rockptx.com/

optical mineralogy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hMpllR88i2uZbQ4S1OPhQ/featured

Interactive Michel-Levy Chart (Android):  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barlowax.birefringenceandroid

Interactive Michel-Levy Chart (iOS):  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/birefringence/id1354688131?mt=8

Mineralogy database: http://www.webmineral.com/

Petrographic data files: http://www.science.smith.edu/geosciences/petrology/petrography/mineral_list.html

Deer WA, Howie RA and Zussman J. (2013): An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals 3rd edition.- 498 pp, The Mineralogical Society, London.

Gribble CD et al. (1992): Optical Mineralogy - Principles and Practice. - Springer US, 303 pp.

MacKenzie WS and Guilford C. (1980): Atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin section.-98 pp, Longman Scientific and Technical, New York.

Czech

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (05.04.2022)

The study material related to all lectures can be found at the following link: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjA0ODAxMDA0ODU2?cjc=bte25bs

Raith MM, Raase P and Reinhardt J (2012, 2nd ed.):  Guide to Thin Section Microscopy:  http://www.minsocam.org/msa/openaccess_publications/#Guide

UK Virtual Microscope: https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/content/uk-virtual-microscope

video atlas of minerals in thin section:  https://www.rockptx.com/

Interactive Michel-Levy Chart (Android):  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barlowax.birefringenceandroid

Interactive Michel-Levy Chart (iOS):  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/birefringence/id1354688131?mt=8

Mineralogy database: http://www.webmineral.com/

Petrographic data files: http://www.science.smith.edu/geosciences/petrology/petrography/mineral_list.html

Deer WA, Howie RA and Zussman J. (2013): An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals 3rd edition.- 498 pp, The Mineralogical Society, London.

Gribble CD et al. (1992): Optical Mineralogy - Principles and Practice. - Springer US, 303 pp.

MacKenzie WS and Guilford C. (1980): Atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin section.-98 pp, Longman Scientific and Technical, New York.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (21.09.2021)

The exam consists in the identification and description of various minerals by using the optical microscope or the online interactive video atlas.

Syllabus

English

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (05.04.2022)

Syllabus

1) Polarized microscope and its accessories, 2) Refractive Index and mineral relief, 3) polarized light and polarizers, 4) symmetry of minerals and optical properties of uniaxial minerals, 5) Uniaxial Indicatrix, 6) Optical properties of biaxial minerals, 7) Interference colours and interference colour figures, 8) birefringence , 9) Determination of mineral sign, 10) Microscopy of uniaxial minerals under polarized light (cleavage, relief, refractory index, shape, grain size, inclusions). 11) Optical study of minerals under cross nicols (extinction angle, interference colour, birefringence). 12) Practical determination of amphiboles, pyroxenes, olivines, feldspars, feldspathoids, quartz, oxides, apatite, micas, titanite, calcite, epidote, garnets, rutile, zircon.

Czech

Last update: doc. Alessandro Fabbrizio, Ph.D. (21.09.2021)

Syllabus

1) Polarized microscope and its accessories, 2) Refractive Index and mineral relief, 3) polarized light and polarizers, 4) symmetry of minerals and optical properties of uniaxial minerals, 5) Uniaxial Indicatrix, 6) Optical properties of biaxial minerals, 7) Interference colours and interference colour figures, 8) birefringence , 9) Determination of mineral sign, 10) Microscopy of uniaxial minerals under polarized light (cleavage, relief, refractory index, shape, grain size, inclusions). 11) Optical study of minerals under cross nicols (extinction angle, interference colour, birefringence). 12) Practical determination of amphiboles, pyroxenes, olivines, feldspars, feldspathoids, quartz, oxides, apatite, micas, titanite, calcite, epidote, garnets, rutile, zircon.