Microscopy of Rocks - MG440C12E

• Title: Microscopy of Rocks
• Czech title: Mikroskopie hornin
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Petrology and Structural Geology (31-440)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/2, C(+Ex) [HT]
• Capacity: 10
• Min. number of students: 3
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Is provided by: MG440C12
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Ing. Shah Wali Faryad, CSc.
• Teacher(s): prof. Ing. Shah Wali Faryad, CSc.

Annotation

English

This course assumes familiarity with the polarizing microscope and an ability to identify some common minerals in thin sections. The main goals of this course will be textural relations among minerals ingneous rocks, succession of mineral formation during crystalization. In metamorphic rocks, the objective of this course will be textures, microstructures and their interpretation, mineral preferred orientations, relict and metamorphic minerals and classification of rock with respect to degree of metamorphism.

Last update: Rubešová Jana, RNDr., Ph.D. (10.11.2006)

Czech

The course includes thin-section microscopy of main rock-forming minerals in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Textural relations among minerals and succession of their crystallization and subsequent replacement as well as formation on new mineral during metamorphism is subject of this course

Last update: Faryad Shah Wali, prof. Ing., CSc. (12.02.2012)

Literature

Dudek A., Fediuk F., Palivcová M. (1962): Petrografické tabulky. NČSAV Praha.

Shelley D. (1993): Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks under the Microscope. - Chapman & Hall, London. 445 pp.

Bard J.P. (1986): Microtextures of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks. - D. Reidel Publishing Company, Holland. 264 pp.

Barker A.J. (1990): Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures.- Blackie and Son Ltd., Oxford.

Last update: Rubešová Jana, RNDr., Ph.D. (10.11.2006)

Requirements to the exam

Attendance 100 percent (in other case it should be consulted with teacher). All protocols should be delivered in time.

Last update: Faryad Shah Wali, prof. Ing., CSc. (05.04.2012)

Syllabus

1) Main types of textures in igneous rocks, 2) Minerals (major, minor a accessory) and textures of plutonic rock (granite, granodiorite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite), 3) Microscopy of volcanic rocks (rhyolite, dacite , andesite a basalts), 4) Relationships among minerals and their successive formation during crystallization 5) Autometamorphic and/or metamorphic alteration of igneous rocks, 6) Classification of rocks based mineral modes and textures.

7) Minerals and structures of metamorphic rocks, 8) Metamorphic textures and index minerals in metamorphic rocks, 9) Prograde and retrograde changes in metamorphic rocks, 10) Mineral formation during prograde metamorphism in politic, mafic, quartz-fledspatic, carbonatic and ultramafic rocks. 11)Classification of metamorphic rocks: phyllites, greenschists, blueschists, gneiss, amphibolite, granulites, eclogites and migmatite, 12) Classification and identification of metamorphic rocks based on textures and index minerals.

Last update: Faryad Shah Wali, prof. Ing., CSc. (12.02.2012)

Entry requirements

Attendance to this course is possible only after microscopy of rock forming minerals or similar course in other university. 

Last update: Jeřábek Petr, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (10.03.2017)