THE CORCORAN AND ROGERS SCHOOLS OF GENERAL
AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Associate Professor Grasty.
Mr. Cline.
Required for Admission to the Work of the Schools: The general
entrance requirements.
For Undergraduates.
Geology B1: General Geology.—Three lectures and six laboratory
hours per week throughout the session. A general discussion of
dynamical, structural, physiographical, and historical geology, with
practical work in the laboratory and excursions in the field. As
full an exposition of the fundamental principles of geology will be
given as the time will allow. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Laboratory, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 3-5. Associate Professor
Grasty.
Geology B2: General Physical Geology.—A course of three (3)
lectures per week and nine (9) additional hours per week for laboratory
and field work, and private study, throughout the year. The
divisions of Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical Geology are
covered in considerable detail. Especial emphasis is given the rock-forming
minerals, and rocks, building stone, and ores. Special course
for students in Engineering. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Laboratory, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, 10-12. Professor Watson, Mr. Cline.
Geology B3: Mineralogy.—Three hours of lectures and six laboratory
hours throughout the year. This course is for beginners, and
it serves both as a general course in the subject, and as an introduction
to more advanced work. Especial attention is given to Crystallography,
Physical and Chemical Mineralogy, and Descriptive Mineralogy.
The second portion of the course will be devoted to Descriptive
Mineralogy, including a study of the classification, properties,
modes of formation, association and occurrence, and uses of
minerals. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.) Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Grasty.
Term Course: Second Term: Determinative Mineralogy.—A
practical study of mineral species by means of blow-pipe analysis.
The object of this course is to gain familiarity with the common
minerals and facility in their identification. Six hours laboratory
work per week, winter term. Hours by appointment. Mr. Cline.
A laboratory fee of three dollars is required.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Geology C1: Petrology: Course B3, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—This course aims to give a thorough knowledge of the determination
of minerals and rocks in thin sections under the microscope.
It includes:
(A) Physical Crystallography.—A full discussion of optical and
microscopical mineralogy, with especial reference to the behavior
of minerals as constituents of rock masses.
(B) Petrography.—A discussion of the microscopic structure, mineralogical
composition, genetic relations, and distribution of
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. The laboratory
work supplements the lectures, and enables the student to become
familiar with the various groups of rocks by means of the
polarizing microscope. Lectures and laboratory work to the
amount of 19 hours a week throughout the year. Hours by
appointment. Professor
Watson, Mr.
Cline.
Geology C2: Geology of Ore Deposits: Course B1, or its equivalent,
prerequisite, and course C1 in addition is recommended.—
This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive account
of the origin, nature, distribution, and uses of the metallic
products, with especial reference to those of the United States.
Lectures, collateral reading, laboratory and field work, to the amount
of twelve (12) hours per week throughout the year. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson.
Geology C3: Geology of the Nonmetallic Minerals: Course
B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite and course C1 in addition is recommended.—This
course gives a comprehensive account of the origin,
nature, distribution, and uses of the nonmetallic products, with
especial reference to those of the United States. Lectures, collateral
reading, laboratory and field work, to the amount of twelve (12)
hours per week throughout the year. Hours by appointment. Professor
Watson.
As outlined, Courses C2 and C3 make up the subject of General
Economic Geology. Each is a full year's course and may be taken
independent of the other. The two courses are planned to be given
in alternate years; course C2 will be given in 1914-15.
Geology C4: Geological Field Methods.—This course is designed
to familiarize the student with the methods employed and the instruments
used in making topographic and geologic maps. The
structural relationships of rocks and the proper cartographic representation
of these occurrences in nature are especially emphasized.
Special course for students in geology and engineering. Lectures
and field work. Hours by appointment. Associate Professor Grasty
Mr. Cline.
Primarily for Graduates.
Geology 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, Associate Professor
Grasty.
Geology D2: Advanced Mineralogy and Petrography.—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, Associate Professor Grasty.
Geology D3: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Open to those students
who have had Courses C2 and C3 or their equivalent. This course is
designed to supplement Courses C2 and C3 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,
Associate Professor Grasty.
Geology D4: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.
—Open to those students who have had Courses C2 and C3 or their
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.
THE LEWIS BROOKS MUSEUM.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the
main subdivisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is
arranged so as to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the
same time offers a large variety of subjects for advanced study. In
Geology the specimens show all the different kinds of rocks, classified
according to mineral character and the formation in which they
occur; the collection of fossils, plaster casts, maps, etc., is exceptionally
fine, and fully illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy
the principles of the science are made plain by well-chosen suits of
specimens, models of crystals, etc. The general collection of minerals
contains all the important species, and many of the rarer ones,
in good specimens. In addition to the above, a beginning has been
made of a collection to illustrate the geology and mineralogy of the
State of Virginia, and this is being increased as rapidly as possible.
For summer school courses in Geology, on which college credit
will be allowed, see p. 293.
