GSC 424 - Igneous-Metamorphic Petrology - Spring 2000


Lecture: M-W-F 10:00-10:50; Lab: T 13:00-15:50; F 18:00-20:50

Text: Blatt and Tracy, Petrology - Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic

Date

Topic

Reading

March 27

Introduction

1

April 3

General Petrology

2,3

April 10

Phase Diagrams

4,5,6

April 17

Calc-Alkaline Suite

9

April 24

Mafic-ultramafic rocks

7,8

May 1

Alkaline rocks

10

May 8

Metamorphic Rocks and Facies

18,19

May 15

Metamorphic Phase Diagrams

20,21

May 24

Contact Metamorphism

23

May 31

Regional Metamorphism

22

GSC 424 and 425 grades are combined

Field Trip 1 - Field Mapping of Mesozoic intrusives (Spring and Clark Mtns) - April 15-16.

Field Trip 2 - Cenozoic volcanism of the Owens Valley - May 26-28.