MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES   [Archived Catalog]
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog
   

GEOL 1602 - MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the geology of the fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal -- and the more important industrial rocks and minerals such as evaporites, phosphate rocks, crushed stone, clay, sand and gravel, and building stone. Emphasis is on the processes which form the commercial accumulations of these materials and the geological setting in which they occur. Their geographic distribution is also considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis


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