Petrography Course
Master rock textures, mineral identification, and petrographic reporting to interpret hand samples and thin sections with confidence. Ideal for geology and geography professionals assessing rock quality, quarry potential, and engineering suitability.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Petrography Course gives you practical skills to identify minerals, classify rocks, and interpret textures in hand samples and thin sections, even with limited data. Learn to use QAPF and TAS diagrams, estimate modal proportions, recognize alteration, and link mineralogy and microstructures to engineering performance, so you can write clear, concise petrographic reports and confident suitability recommendations.
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Develop skills
- Petrographic mineral ID: Quickly recognize key rock-forming and secondary minerals.
- Rock texture analysis: Classify igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary microstructures.
- Igneous rock naming: Assign precise rock names from modal mineralogy and QAPF/TAS.
- Engineering assessment: Judge rock suitability for aggregates and dimension stone use.
- Petrographic reporting: Produce concise, professional quarry suitability summaries.
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