Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: Advanced Geology: Courses B1 and B3 prerequisite.—
This course aims to fit the student for independent and original research.
He will study as thoroughly as possible the broader problems
of the science, involving the knowledge of stratigraphical principles.
Especial attention will be given to imparting a practical
knowledge of the various rocks, and of the animal and plant fossils
of the different eras, with a view to using them in determining unknown
formations. Stress will be laid upon field work, and the
methods of determining and describing the geology of new regions.
To impart such knowledge the student will be required to work up
some particular region or formation, and report his results. Topics
involving a knowledge of the literature and growth of opinion in relation
to particular questions may be assigned to form the subject
of theses. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor
Grasty.
Course D2: Advanced Mineralogy.—Adapted to the needs of
the individual student. Properly qualified students may pursue
work directed in the line of crystallography (crystal measurements
and drawings, and crystal optics), chemical mineralogy (mineral
or rock analysis), or petrographic research. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course D3: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Open to those students
who have had Course C2 or its equivalent. This course is designed
to supplement Course C2 by giving advanced students an opportunity
to follow out more thoroughly special topics in mining geology.
The course will necessarily vary with the needs of the individual
student. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor
Grasty.
Course D4: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Open to those students who have had Course C2 or its equivalent.
In this course the mining geology of the region, especially that of
Virginia, is covered in considerable detail. Excursions to various
parts of the region will be taken and individual reports required.
Original investigation of an assigned area, based upon field work, is
required of each student. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson.
Geological Seminary.—Review and discussion of the more important
current geological literature, and the preparation of papers
on special subjects based on field and library investigations. All instructors
and advanced students in geology are expected to take part
in the discussions at these meetings. Time to be arranged.
