Students are given approximately a week to complete the below labs using thin sections from the MIT collection.
Labs
- Rock-forming Minerals: Pyroxene and Olivine (PDF)
- Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars, Amphiboles, and Sheet Silicates (PDF)
- Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB) (PDF)
- Undersaturated Mafic Magmas (PDF)
- Magma Mixing (PDF)
- Sierra Nevadas: Calc-Alkaline Plutonic Rocks (PDF)
- Stillwater Layered Igneous Intrusion (PDF)
- Komatiites (Demonstration by Prof. Grove)
- Meteorites (PDF)
