Answer the questions below after reading Chapter 4 in the textbook and the corresponding study materials. Make sure that you give your answer in a clear and well-reasoned manner providing necessary explanation on how did you come up with it. Please first post your initial thread by Thu then please reply to the posts of at least 3 peers by Sun. In to reply click […]

The homework is another fillable PDF. This week there arent any graphs or diagrams for you to do — the entire assignment consists of matching and fill-in-the-blank questions. Heres the PDF: Mineral uses.pdf. As always as you fill out the homework save often. When you’re done save one last time and then close the file and quit Acrobat Reader (or whatever app youre using to […]

Interpret and outline major phases in the geologic history of rocks exposed in the footwall of the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault in the 7.5-minute Fort Douglas quadrangle (see below*) – using maps provided (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/111_kMaDty1…) Turn in: An annotated outline of Salt Lake City area geologic history (2 pages) part of which will be incorporated in the Geologic Settings section of your […]

The purpose of this lab is to learn the characteristics of minerals and to identify minerals in hand samples from their physical properties. You will become familiar with a number of common rock-forming minerals and several other minerals that are less common but are important because they are the principal sources of economically important materials (such as iron and copper). The objective of this lab […]