2024-2025 / GEOL1037-2

Analytical mineralogy, Part A

Duration

10h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Frédéric Hatert

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course contains 5  chapters:

1. Production of X-rays

2. The structure factor

3. X-ray powder diffraction techniques

4. The scanning electron microscope

5. The electron microprobe

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aim of this course is to introduce the students to two main tools of the Mineralogist: X-ray diffraction techniques and the scanning electron microscope.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The content of the course "Cristallographie et Minéralogie" must be known.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Practicals: X-ray powder diffraction and EDS spectroscopy.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Further information:

Practicals are OBLIGATORY.

This lecture will be given in "Vintage Teatching" mode (see https://www.minera.uliege.be/ for more details).

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Buy the book: F Hatert. Minéralogie: connaître et reconnaître les minéraux. Editions Ellipses, Paris. Price 35 Euros.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )


Further information:

Written examination for theory. Practical examination on the identification of minerals by powder X-ray diffraction.

No partial dispense.

Work placement(s)

None.

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Laptops, tablets and mobile phones forbidden.
 

This lecture will be given in "Vintage Teaching" mode.

For more details on this teaching method, visit the website: https://www.minera.uliege.be/ 

Contacts

Professor Frédéric HATERT
fhatert@ulg.ac.be
04/366.21.43




Assistant Martin Depret
04/366.22.28
Martin.Depret@uliege.be

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