Professor Timothy L. Grove

Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
Building & Room: 54-1220a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-2878; Fax: (617) 253-7102
E-mail: tlgrove@mit.edu

12.109 Petrology Fall 2009 Syllabus

Rock-forming minerals (RFM)

Sep. 10: (no lecture) Reading: WB 429; Lab: Microscope Intro
Sep. 15: RFM I: Olivine and spinel
Sep. 17: RFM II: Feldspars; Reading: WB 318-330; Lab: Minerals I
Sep. 22: RFM III: Pyroxenes; Reading: WB 470-475; Lab: Minerals I
Sep. 24: RFM IV: Pyriboles; Reading: WB 475-482; Lab: Minerals II

Thermodynamics

Oct. 1: 1-Energy functions-E-S-V and G-T-P-X; Reading: Spear, 133-146,175-183; Lab: Minerals II
Oct. 6: P-T-X phase diagrams, Gibbs phase rule; Reading: Spear, 247-288; Lab: Minerals III
Oct. 8: 2-Exchange reactions and Equilibrium constants; Reading: RE; Lab: Textures
Problem Set #1 Exchange reactions
Oct. 15: 3-Earth's outer mantle - phase relations and variation with tectonic setting; Reading: Hess, Ch. 6; Lab: Mantle lab

Igneous petrology

Oct. 20: Mantle rock types and processes; Reading: Boyd (1973); Lab: Basalt lab
Pyroxene thermobarometry; Reading: WF p. 134-139
Oct. 22: Serpentine stability - recycling of mantle; Lab: Review
Origin of mantle rocks - Ig. vs Meta. processes
Oct. 27: 4-Melting & Crystallization Processes; Reading: Hess, Ch. 2; Lab: midterm
T-X-X phase diagrams (3 components)
freezing/melting in crust and mantle
Problem Set #2 Using phase diagrams
Oct. 29: 5-Basalts, komatiites rock series; Reading: Hess, Ch. 8, 9, 18
Nov. 3: 6-Phase equilibria: silicate + H2O, Magma generation in subduction zones; Reading: Hess, Ch. 10; Lab: Calc-alk lab
mantle melting processes
Mid-term (take home)
Problem Set #3 Feldspar and pyroxene thermobarometry
Nov. 5: 7- Granitic rocks and crustal magmatic processes; Reading: Hess, Ch. 15; Lab: Granite lab
Nov. 10: Continental crustal igneous rocks

Metamorphic petrology

Nov. 12: 1-Metamorphic processes, contact, regional, T& P variations; Reading: Spear, Ch. 1; Lab: Met. Minerals
Nov. 17: 2-Metamorphic Facies, Heat flow and heat production in crust; Reading: Spear, Ch. 2 and 3
Nov. 19: 3-Metamorphism of pelitic rocks, minerals and isograds; Reading: Spear, Ch. 10; Lab: Met. Facies
Nov. 24: 4-Pelites - The AKFM system, continuous and discontinuous reactions; Reading: Spear, Ch. 10; Lab: Pelite
Nov. 26: Thanksgiving Holiday
Problem Set #4 Garnet-biotite thermobarometry
Dec. 1: 5-Metamorphism of mafic rocks; Reading: Spear, Ch. 11; Lab: Metamorphism
Dec. 3: Greenschists, Blueschists and Eclogites; Lab: review
Dec. 8: 6-Metamorphism of calc-silicates; Reading: Spear, Ch. 12; Lab: final

Primary texts for 12.109 - Petrology

Hess, P.C. (1989) Origin of Igneous Rocks, Harvard University Press, 336 pp.
Spear F.S. (1993) Metamorphic Phase Equilibria and Pressure - Temperature - Time Paths, Mineralogical Society of America, 799 pp.

Supplemental reading material

Bloss F.D. (1961) An Introduction to the Methods of Optical Crystallography, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 294 pp.
Boggs, S., Jr. (1992) Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks, MacMillan, 707 pp.
Boyd F.R. (1973) Geochim Cosmochim Acta 37, 2533-2546.
Compton R.R. (1962) Manual of Field Geology, John Wiley and Sons, 378 pp.
RE - Roeder P.L. and Emslie R.F. (1970) Contrib Mineral Petrol 29, 275-289.
WF - Wood B.J. and Fraser D.G. (1977) Elementary Thermodynamics for Geologists, Oxford University Press, 303 pp.
WB - Wenk, H-R. and Bulakh, A. (2004) Minerals: their constitution and origin, Cambridge, 646 pp.

Resources for laboratory exercises

Deer W.A., Howie R.A. and Zussman J. (1992) An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals, 2nd edition, Longman Scientific and Technical, 696 pp.
McKenzie W.S., Donaldson C.H. and Guilford C. (1982) Atlas of Igneous Rocks and their Textures, Halsted Press, 148 pp.
McKenzie W.S. and Guilford C. (1979) Atlas of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section, Halsted Press, 98 pp.
Troger W.E. (1979) Optical Determination of Rock Forming Minerals, Part 1, E. Schweizerbartische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 188 pp.
Williams H., Turner F.J. and Gilbert C.M. (1982) Petrography, An Introduction to the Study of Rocks, 2nd ed., W.H. Freeman and Co., 626 pp.