MRED 202 PETROLOGY

Minerals and rocks; composition of Earth interior; rock forming minerals, igneous minerals; magma and its composition, magmatic crystallisation; magmatic differentiation; terminology and classification of igneous rocks; sedimentary rocks; clastic sediments (shales, marls, mudstones, sandstones, breccias, conglomerates), chemical and biogenic sediments (limestones, dolomites, evaporites, phosphorites, coals); metamorphic rocks, and their mineralogical components; metamorphic field relations; classification of metamorphic rocks; metamorphic fabrics; parameters controlling metamorphism.

Laboratory exercises: 1. Rock forming minerals; 2. Microscopy; 3. Orthoscopic study using analyser; 4. Conoscopic study; 5. Granodiorite thin section study; 6. Ryolite thin section study; 7. Andesite and basalt thin section study; 8. Oivinite thin section study; 9. Macroscopic observation of sedimentary rocks; 10. Marble and gneiss thin section study; 11. Macroscopic study of plutonic, subvolcanic, volcanic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.