This software is a discipline that studies the optical properties of mineral crystals under transmitted light. This experimental course is dedicated to satisfying students' abilities in hands-on operation, verifying theoretical knowledge, consolidating knowledge, and deepening understanding; Satisfy students' ability to familiarize themselves with polarizing microscopes and operate them in a standardized and correct manner; Meet the needs of students to master the basic optical characteristics of common transparent rock-forming minerals. Through systematic research on the basic principles and methods of identifying transparent minerals, we can understand and master the optical characteristics and identification characteristics of several common types of rock-forming minerals in rocks. Through learning, students focus on meeting their ability needs to analyze and solve problems. They possess the skills to identify minerals under a microscope, scientific thinking methods in petrographic research, and practical hands-on abilities.

This software mainly includes knowledge of petrology and provides an overview of petrological content. By changing the software, students can master the basic theory, research methods, identification and description methods of petrology, improve their observation and hands-on ability and ability to comprehensively analyze problems, cultivate their experimental operation and team cooperation abilities, and lay a good foundation for subsequent professional courses.

Through this software teaching, students can understand the basic concepts and commonly used terms of mineralogy, understand the basic ideas and logical reasoning process of mineralogy, master the applicable conditions, application characteristics, and mutual connections and differences of commonly used methods for optical properties of metal minerals under the microscope, familiarize themselves with the basic steps and methods of experiments, and aim to cultivate and improve students' hands-on ability, judgment ability, and analytical ability, and verify the theories learned The ability to consolidate knowledge and deepen understanding; And lay the foundation for students to engage in research on the genesis of mineral deposits and guide mineral exploration work in the future. At the same time, as a theoretical foundation course for resource exploration majors, it also provides conditions for students to smoothly learn subsequent courses.

Through virtual simulation teaching software, students can understand what fossils are, understand the formation conditions, petrochemical processes, and preservation characteristics of various fossils, understand the research methods and classification and naming methods of fossils, especially the geological significance of fossils.