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: | Υ1205Υ2202 |
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).