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Ε3202 - ROCK-FORMING MINERALS

 

Semester:

3rd

Course Type:

Elective

Course Code:

Ε3202

eClass URL

Hours per Week

- Lecturing:

2

- Practical/Lab Exersices:

2

Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice:

-

ERASMUS:

 

ECTS:

4

Teaching Units:

4

Prerequisites:

-

Expected Prior Knowlegde:

Υ1205
Υ2202


Course Content

Specialized Mineralogy courses with emphasis to rock-forming minerals and their formation processes.

Nucleation and crystal growth of minerals; growth of mineral crystals from magma/melt cooling & hydrothermal fluids (igneous minerals), effect of pressure (metamorphic minerals & deep minerals), sedimentary minerals; Silicates (olivine, SiO2-polymorphs, feldspars, pyroxenes, amphiboles, phyllosilicates) and carbonate minerals (calcite, aragonite, dolomite); Crystal structure, defects-color, solid-solutions, isomorphism, polymorphism, allotropy, polytypism; epitaxy, topotaxy, exsolution, phase diagrams; study of rock-forming minerals by microscopic techniques (optical microscopy & petrographic microscope, SEM, TEM, AFM); basic principles of instrumental characterization & analyses of rock-forming minerals (X-rays, e-, p+, Laser, MS, ion-beams).


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