Don José Alberto Padrón Navarta, geólo e investigador español de la universidad francesa Recherche Scientifique nos da una video conferencia sobre minerales.

1. Encuentro online con los
alumnos de 2º del CEIP Maestro
José Fuentes (Sevilla)
José Alberto Padrón-Navarta
(CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Francia)

2. What is my profession and why I have chosen it?
¿Cuál es mi profesión y por qué decidí dedicarme a esto?
• I am researcher in Earth Science
• Study of Earth dynamics
• …and by extension other planets/moons
• From surface to the core (6,371 km)
• In time (4.54 Ga) and space
• Tools (chemistry/physics/biology/
mathemathics) and other more specifics:

3. What is my profession and why I have chosen it?
¿Cuál es mi profesión y por qué decidí dedicarme a esto?
Field workGeological tools (hammer,
compass, maps, etc…)

4. What is my profession and why I have chosen it?
¿Cuál es mi profesión y por qué decidí dedicarme a esto?
• More specifically I am
(experimental) petrologist

5. What is my profession and why I have chosen it?
¿Cuál es mi profesión y por qué decidí dedicarme a esto?

6. What’s the difference between minerals
and rocks?

7. What’s the difference between minerals
and rocks?

8. How do we know about the composition of
minerals and what instruments do we use?

10. How do we know about the composition of
minerals and what instruments do we use?
http://www.virtualmicroscope.org/explore
http://www.virtualmicroscope.org/rock_sample?asset=tc_t2/
index.html?x=23.83&y=12.15&zoom=0&s=0

11. How minerals are transformed?
What about diamonds?

12. How minerals are transformed?
What about diamonds?

13. How minerals are transformed?
What about diamonds?

14. How minerals are transformed?
What about diamonds?
How minerals are transformed?
What about diamonds?

15. Experimental
petrology
Geophysical Laboratory 1911
Percy Bridgman and the
General Electric Diamond project (1940)

16. What’s the difference between pyrite and gold?
Au (Pure element) Fe2S (sulfide)

17. Where do you find minerals?
In which countries do you find more?
• Everywhere!!!
• Mineral resources are
more localised
• If you want to learn more
contact your local mineral
collector association
(http://
www.gmmadrid.com/)

18. Mineral hardness scale (Mohs scale)

19. How did I learn minerals’s names?