Engelska Studiehandboken kurser
Environmental Planning and Design
SBL026 Microscopy 3.0 ECTS credits
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TIMEPERIOD: Quarter IV
LANGUAGE: Swedish
EXAMINER
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PREREQUISITES
Basic mineralogy or geology.
COURSE AIM
The students will after the course be able to identify some of the most important rock- and ore forming minerals in the microscope and know the possibilities and limitations of the method.
CONTENTS
The petrographic microscope. Mineral properties in polarized light. Minerals in reflected light.
Study of technical properties as grain size and shapes, porosity , grain boundaries and mineral distribution.
TEACHING
Lectures will be given in Swedish.
EXAMINATION
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G
ITEMS/CREDITS
Laboratory work 2.5ECTS
Written exam 0.4ECTS
COURSE LITTERATURE
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