UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOPHYSICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Paper III - Mineralogy

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Definition of crystral - Morphological characters of crystals - Faces - Forms - Edge - Solid angles - Interfacial angle - Millerian system of notation.

Study of simple forms and their combinations in the Normal class of the following systems: Isometric, Tetragonal, Orthorhombic, Hexagonal, Monoclinic, Triclinic.

Important types of twinning.

Unit II

Physical properties of minerals.

Descriptive mineralogy of the following rock forming minerals : Feldspar group - Amphibole group - Pyroxene group.

Unit - III

Olivine group - Quartz group - Mica group - Garnet group.

Unit IV

Descriptive study of the following minerals : Beryl, Apatite, Fluorite, Kyarnte, Sillimanite, Andalusite, Topaz, Tourmaline, Calcite, Dolomite, Stauolite, Chlorite, Talc, Serpentine, Zircon, Rutile and Epidote.

Unit V

Characteristics of light - Polarized light - Petrological microscope and its parts - Uses of quartz wedge, Gypsum plate and Mica plate - Properties of Isotropic and Anistropic minerals observed under parallel and crossed nicols - Properties of uniaxial minerals - Optic axes - Double refraction - Becke test - Dichroism - Properties of Biaxial minerals - Extinction angle and pleochroism.

Books Recommended

Optical Mineralogy by P.R.J. Naidu, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Bombay, 1981.

Optical Crystallography by E.E. Wahlstrom, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1945.

Elements of Optical Mineralogy by A.N. Winchell, Wiley Eastern Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 1948.

An Introduction to Crystallography by F.C. Philips, Longmans, Green and Co., Great Britian, 1956.

Dana's Manual of Mineralogy by Cornelius S.Hurlbut, John Wiley. and Sons, New York, 1959.

Optical Mineralogy by Paul F. Kerr, McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 1959.

An Introduction of Rock - forming Minerals by W.A.Deer, R.A. Howie and J. Zussman, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1979.

Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy by C.D. Gribble, 27^th Edition, Unwin Hyman, Lodon, 1988.

Dana's Text Book of Mineralogy by W.E. For, 4^th Edition, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1992.