Geochemistry, GEO-302 – Kurt Hollocher

I have retired, and so this course is no longer taught by me. I have abbreviated the content of this page, so it no longer has course-specific rubbish or content getting increasingly out of date. If you find any of the things here useful, that’s good.

Syllabus (pdf) Moon short course notes (pdf)
Instrument pages	ICP-MS at Union College Ion chromatograph at Union College
Useful utilities and information	Alkalinity calculation (xlsx) Hardness calculation (xlsx) Table of isotope abundances (xlsx) Black body radiation calculator (xlsx)
Why geochemistry is so much fun!
Geochemical discriminant diagrams! Fill in missing lanthanide (REE) values! (xlsx)

SVG vector graphics files for figures I use in this course (native Inkscape).

We did not do field titrations for alkalinity because, at -7°C, the water samples kept freezing. — Sampling and conducting field measurements in the Hans Grootkill, Union College campus, after a late February snowfall, 2003.

Writing down data. Each person took data from three pH meters, for example. We wore rubber gloves to keep our hands from freezing. — Sampling and conducting field measurements in the Hans Grootkill, Union College campus, after a late February snowfall, 2003.