EASC 219 — Practical Crystallography
Earth Science · University of Ghana
This is a practical course involving the essentials of geometrical crystallography and internal order of crystals. The detail syllabus is as follows: Essentials of geometrical crystallography: Crystal description, symmetry elements, crystal symmetry, crystallographic axes. Parameters, indices, crystallographic notation, principal laws geometric crystallographhy. Faces, forms, zones, crystal habit, measurement of crystal angles. Law of rational indices, classification of crystals, crystal systems, thirty-two crystal classes, spherical projection, stereographic projection, intergrowth of crystals. Essentials of Internal Order of crystals: Symmetry elements, space lattice, unit cell, space groups.
- Credits
- 1
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- EASC 209 — Earth’s Materials and Resources
- EASC 210 — Geological Field Methods I
- EASC 211 — Natural Hazards and Disasters
- EASC 213 — Geological Structures
- EASC 214 — Principles of Geochemistry
- EASC 215 — Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
- EASC 216 — Fundamentals of Geophysics
- EASC 217 — Optical Mineralogy
- EASC 218 — Introduction to Palaeontology
- EASC 222 — Petrography
- EASC 280 — Internship in Earth Science I
- EASC 101 — Physical Geology
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).