JEO 331E - Petrography

Course Objectives

The aim of the course; to understand origin and evaluation of the different kind of rocks and
their physical, chemicaland petrographical features. The main goal of this course is identify
and classification of different kind of rocks (mainly magmatic and metamorphic rocks) by using
their mineralogical and petrographical properties. Simple tests and practice on the hand sample
together with the polarisan microscope studies are also very common method for identify the
different rocks.

Course Description

Structure of the earth crust, magma, physical and chemical conditions of the magma, crystallization of magma, emplacement of magma, classification of the magmatic rocks using different methods, petrographic features of the different rock suites, metamorphism, mode of occurence, metamorphic conditions, kinds of the metamorphism, paragenesis and facies,metamorphic textures, kinds of the metamorphic rocks .