GEOL 2312
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Syllabus (pfd)
Instructors: Jim Miller Steve Hoaglund (TA)
Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 12-1, or by appt. Wed 1-2
Office: 211 Heller Hall 216 Heller Hall
Phone: 726-6582 726-7935
E-mail: mille066@umn.edu hoagl029@umn.edu
Class Meeting Time/Location:
Lecture: 11:00 - 11:50 AM, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Heller Hall 216
Labs: 10:00-11:50 AM, Tuesday and Thursday, Heller Hall 118
Lecture and Lab Schedule (subject to change)
Week |
Lecture (Mon) |
Lab (Tues) |
Lecture (Wed) |
Lab (Thurs) |
Lecture (Fri) |
Take Home Exercises |
1 |
1/19 MLK Holiday | 1/20 Course Overview, Microscope Review (pdf) |
1/21 Earth's Physical & Chemical Structure (W-Ch. 1) (PwrPt) | 1/23 Textures of Igneous Rocks (W-Ch. 3) (PwrPt, pdf) |
1/24 Classification of Igneous Rocks (W-Ch. 2) (PwrPt) |
1)Mineralogy & Chemistry of Ig Rx (pdf) |
2 |
1/26 Field Occurences of Volcanic Ig Rx (W-Ch. 4) (PwrPt) |
1/27 Rocks of the Sonju Lake Intrusion (Petrog Form) |
1/28 Intrusive Ig Rx / Intro to Sonju L Intr (W-Ch. 4) (PwrPt) | 1/29 Sonju Lake Intr- Petrography/Mineral Chemistry (Petrog pdf) (Alteration Pwrpt) | ||
3 |
2/2 Thermodynamics (W-Ch. 5) (PwrPt) |
2/3 Sonju Lake Intr- Petrography/Mineral Chemistry | 2/4 Phase Diagrams: 1- & 2-Component Systems (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 6) |
2/5 Sonju Lake Intr- Petrography/Mineral Chemistry | 2/6 Phase Diagrams: 2-Component Systems (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 6) |
2) Phun with Phase Diagrams (pdf) |
4 |
2/9 Phase Diagrams: 3-Component Systems (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 7) |
2/10 Sonju Lake Intr-Petrography/Mineral Chemistry | 2/11 Chemistry of Igneous Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 8&9) |
2/12 Working with Geochemical Data using Excel and IgPet (W-Ch. 8, Appendix) | 2/13 Quiz (key) | |
5 |
2/16 Generation of Mafic Magma (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 10) |
2/17 M & M Magma Chamber (pdf, Xcel) | 2/18 Diversity of Magmas (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 11) |
2/19 M & M Magma Chamber | 2/20 Layered Mafic Intrusions (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 12) |
3) Modelling Fractional Xtallization (pdf ,Excel) |
6 |
2/23 MORB and OIB Volcanism (PwrPt) (W-Chs. 13 & 14) |
2/24 Skaergaard Intrusion (pdf) | 2/25 Continental Flood Basalts (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 15) |
2/26 North Shore Volcanics, Hawaii and Iceland Volcanics (pdf) | 2/27 Quiz (key) | |
7 |
3/2 Island Arc Magmatism (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 16) |
3/3 Japan Arc Volcanics (ES) | 3/4 Continental Arc Magmatism (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 17) |
3/5 Idaho Volcanic Suite (pdf) | 3/6 Petrology of Granitic Rx (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 18) |
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8 |
3/9 Alkaline Magmatism (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 19) |
3/10 Sierra Nevada Batholith (pdf) | 3/11 Anorthosites (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 20) | 3/12 Anorthositic Rocks of the Duluth Complex (Ex Credit) | 3/13 Quiz (key) | |
9 |
3/16 -3/20 SPRING BREAK |
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10 |
3/23 Intro to Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 21) | 3/24 Metamorphic Rocks in Hand Sample (pdf) (W-Ch. 22) | 3/25 Textures of Contact & Highly Sheared Meta-Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 23) | 3/26 Metamorphic Rocks in Hand Sample | 3/27 Textures of Regionally Meta-Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 23) | |
11 |
3/30 Stable Metamorphic Mineral Assemblages (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 24) |
3/31 Metamorphic Rocks in Thin Section (pdf) | 4/1 Metamorphic Facies (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 25) |
4/2 Metamorphic Rocks in Thin Section | 4/3 Quiz (key) | 4) Chemographic Diagrams (pdf) |
12 |
4/6 Metamorphic Reactions I (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 26) | 4/7 High Pressure Metamorphic Rx (pdf) | 4/8 Metamorphic Reactions II (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 26) |
4/9 High Pressure Metamorphic Rocks | 4/10 Metamophism of Pelitic Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 28) |
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13 |
4/13 Metamorphism of Calcareous and Ultramafic Rocks (PwrPt) (W-Ch. 29) | 4/14 Interpretation of Metamorphic Terranes (pdf) | 4/15 No Class | 4/16 Interpretation of Metamorphic Terranes |
4/17 Quiz (Chs. 26, 28, 29) and Past Quizzes | 5) Metamorphic Reactions (pdf) |
14 |
4/20 SLI Project | 4/21 SLI Project | 4/22 SLI Project | 4/23 SLI Project | 4/24 NO CLASS | |
15 |
4/27 SLI Project | 4/28 SLI Project | 4/29 Precambrian Geology of Northern Michigan | 4/30 Igneous and Metamorphic Rx of Northern Michigan | 5/1 NO CLASS Leave for FT - 3PM |
5/2 - 5/3 Field Trip : Upper Michigan |
16 |
May 4-8 |
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Sonju Lake Final Report Instructions (pdf)
Sample Location Maps: Northern Traverse, Southern Traverse
SLI Worksheets (Excel)
Sonju Lake Intrusion Articles
Miller and Ripley (1996) Layered Intrusions of the Duluth Complex, in Layered Intrusions, Grant Cawthorn (ed.), Elsevier
Miller and Chandler (1997) Geology of the Beaver Bay Complex, GSA Sp. Paper 312
Miller (1999) PGE mineralization in the Sonju Lake Intrusion, MGS IC-44
Miller et al (2002) Geology of the Duluth Complex and related rocks, MGS RI-58 (see chapter 7)
Miller et al. (1993) Bedrock Geologic Map of the Finland and Doyle Lake quadrangles, Lake Co, MN, MGS Misc Map 72
Sonju Lake Related Figures
General Geology of NE MN (jpeg)
Geology of the Southern Beaver Bay Complex (jpeg)
Geology of the Sonju Lake Intrusion (jpeg)
SLI Modal and MinChem stratigraphic variaiton (jpeg)
SLI Cryptic Var (Fo, En, An) B&W) (jpeg)
SLI-Skgd comparision (jpeg)
NSVG AFM (jpeg)
Mafic Rock Classification (jpeg)
Useful Links
J. Winter Petrology Website (Whitman College)
Atlas of igneous and metamorphic rocks and textures in thin section (University of North Carolina)
Petrographic Workshop (UCLA interactive workshop)
Athena Mineralogy (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Minerals under the microscope - University of Bristol
Geochemistry of igneous rocks (Bernie Gunn)
Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) (geochemical database)