Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Week: 1. Introduction & Interior of Earth
2	Week: 2. Partitioning of elements between melt and minerals
3	Week: 3. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY: Building blocks of minerals. Bonding forces in crystals. Coordination principle: How building blocks (e.g., Atoms, ions) of minerals are arranged to form crystal structures? What governs this arrangement? Coordination types (12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2-fold coordinations). Crystal types, based on their bonds. Compositional variations in minerals Silicate structures: The way [SiO4]-4 is bonded to form silicate minerals. Structure of olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, mica, feldspar, and SiO2 group minerals. Structural sites in the lattices of these minerals. Examining the ions of which elements can enter into these crystallographic sites.
4	Week: 4. Trace elements
5	Week: 5. Generation of magmas by partial melting - Petrological modeling of melting process & source characteristics
6	Week: 6. Determination of Tectonic settings of basalts & granitoids by geochemistry: tectonic discrimination diagrams
7	Week: 7. Upwelling, emplacement of magma & petrological modeling of fractional crystallization
8	Week: 8. Petrological modeling of Magma Mixing, Replenishment and Mingling processes
9	Week: 9. Modeling of crustal assimilation combined with fractional crystallization process. - DePaolo’s (1981) systematic (using the AFC program of Keskin, 2013) - Aitcheson & Forrest (1994)'s systematic (3D AFC program of Guzmán et al., 2014) - Using EC-AFC (Energy-Constrained AFC) program of Spera and Bohrson (2001) & Bohrson and Spera (2001).
10	Week: 10. Petrological modelling by Ghiorso's MELTS program
11	Week: 11. Magmatic processes in arc settings
12	Week: 12. Magmatism in within-plate settings

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