Labs

Students are given approximately a week to complete the below labs using thin sections from the MIT collection.

Labs

1. Rock-forming Minerals: Pyroxene and Olivine (PDF)
2. Rock-forming Minerals: Feldspars, Amphiboles, and Sheet Silicates (PDF)
3. Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB) (PDF)
4. Undersaturated Mafic Magmas (PDF)
5. Magma Mixing (PDF)
6. Sierra Nevadas: Calc-Alkaline Plutonic Rocks (PDF)
7. Stillwater Layered Igneous Intrusion (PDF)
8. Komatiites (Demonstration by Prof. Grove)
9. Meteorites (PDF)