For Graduates.
Geology D1: Advanced Geology: Geology B1 and B3 prerequisite.—A
thorough treatment of the broader problems of the science, involving the
knowledge of stratigraphical principles, as a preparation for independent research.
Stress will be laid upon field work, and 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 are assigned.—Hours by appointment. Brooks Museum.
Professor
Watson and Adjunct Professor
Giles.
Geology D2: Advanced Mineralogy and Petrography: Geology C2 and
C3 prerequisite.—Adapted to the needs of the individual student. Properly
qualified students may pursue work directed along the line of crystallography
(crystal measurements and drawings, and crystal optics), chemical mineralogy
(mineral or rock analysis), or petrographic research.—Hours by appointment.
Brooks Museum. Professor Watson.
Geology D3: Advanced Economic Geology: Geology C2 and C3 prerequisite.—Special
topics in mining geology for advanced students, selected according
to the needs of the individual student. Lectures, laboratory and field
work, reading, reports and theses.—Hours by appointment. Brooks Museum.
Professor Watson.
Geology D4: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians:
Geology C2 and C3 prerequisite.—Detailed study of the mining geology of the
region, especially that of Virginia. 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. Brooks Museum. 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 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.
