Advanced mineralogy 1300-WMNZAW

The course covers 30 lectures 1.5 hour each and presents the given below issues.
Lecture 1 and 2. Solid vs. amorphous state, polymorphism, polytypism, short-range and long-range order, epitaxy, topotaxy, polysomatic overgrowths, modular crystals, modulated crystal structures, fundamentals on crystalline structures with bent lattice planes.
Lecture 3. "Normal" and inverse structures, solid solutions, spinodal decomposition (shown on spinel group).
Lecture 4 and 5. Polytypic varieties, solid solutions, miscibility gaps, decomposition of solid solutions, ordering and anti-phase domains, microstructures, exsolutions and their genetic importance (shown on group of pyroxenes).
Lecture 6 and 7. Polysomatic overgrowths -ordered and disordered, zipper-type tranformations, polymerisation of silicates, types of linking of silicate chains (shown in biopyribole group)
Lectures 9 and 10. Types of octahedral sites. Ordering of octahedral substitutions and their genetic importance (shown on olivine group). Minerals of Earth's mantle: phase transitions, phase changes of (Mg, Fe)2SiO4 polymorphs compared with phase transitions of other HP (high pressure) phases, meaning of polysomatic intergrowths and defects of crystalline strukture for water transport into Earth's upper mantle (shown on olivines and silicate spinels); mineral intergrowths in UHP (ultra high pressures) rocks documenting the breakdown of HP phases derived from the upper mantle.
Lecture 11, 12 and 13. Ordered and disordered distribution of isomorphic cations and anions substitutions in crystal structure of silicates, polytypism, epitaxy and topotaxy, modulated structures, mineralswith bent lattice planes,homogenic and heterogenic nucletation, polysomatic series of minerals with different crystal structure (shown on serpentinite and mica group minerals).
Lecture 14 and 15. Naural glasses, gels and pseudocolloids, growth of minerals at surface conditions, methods of investigation of amorphous substances (allophans, immogolite, volcanic glasses).