THE CORCORAN AND ROGERS SCHOOLS OF GENERAL
AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct 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. Adjunct 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.
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
of 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.
Adjunct 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: General Economic Geology: Course B1, or its equivalent,
prerequisite.—This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive
account of the origin, nature, distribution and uses of
the metallic and non-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 C2: Petrology: Course B3, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—This course aims to give a thorough knowledge of the determination
of minerals and rocks in the 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 throughout the year. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Geology C3: 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. Adjunct 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 tossils
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.
Geology 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.
Geology 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.
Geology 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.
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. 278.
