Below are the PowerPoint presentations used during lecture at the beginning of lab. The lectures will be posted at the beginning of each week. Paper copies of these notes will not be provided to you in class, so if you want them during the lecture you will need to print them out before class.
Streams Lab - no lecture notes (complete the pre-lab)
Minerals and Mineral Identification
Rocks in your life - a campus tour
Structural Geology & Geologic Maps
Review sheet for the FinalInformation on the images in the banner (from left to right):
Potgietersrus Platinum, Sandsloot pit, footwall to the Platreef mineralisation - Image courtesy of the Bushveld Complex Research group at the University of Witswatersrand, South Africa, at http://www.wits.ac.za/science/geology/bic.htm
Photomicrograph of inverted Pigeonite in cross-polars - Image courtesy of GEOExpeditions at http://www.geotoursafrica.com/english/home.htm
Garnet sample -- Image Copyright © United States Geological Surveye; Image courtesy Earth Science World ImageBank http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank
Otter Cliffs of Acadia National Park during winter -- Image Copyright © National Park Service; Image courtesy Earth Science World ImageBank http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank
Photomicrograph of a talc-tremolite schist - Image courtesy of the Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html
Baltimore gneiss chevron fold - Copyright
© Chris Keane, AGI; Image courtesy Earth Science
World ImageBank