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, 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.
