This is a course about mineralogical,
chemical and textural characteristics of igneous, sedimentary, and
metamorphic rocks.
Their occurrence and petrogenesis will be discussed in terms of rock
associations and
relevant physical and chemical processes of formation. Laboratory sessions
will be
devoted to petrographic description, identification and interpretation
of rocks in hand
samples and microscope thin sections. A Saturday field trip is required.
Three
one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
GES 243.
