Structural subdivision of the Department:

• interdepartmental laboratory of X-ray analysis

(Head of laboratory: Dvorianskyi A.M.);

• laboratory of physical research of minerals and rocks and lithology

(Head of laboratory: Burban K.A.);

• Mineralogical Museum named after Academician Yevhen Lazarenko

(Head of laboratory: Buchynska A.V.);

Main disciplines:

• mineralogy;
• genetic mineralogy;
• ore mineralogy;
• crystallography;
• petrology;
• petrography of crystalline rocks;
• metasomatic processes;
• lithology;

Areas of research

• Petrography of magmatic and metamorphic complexes of rocks in western and central Ukraine. Supervisor: Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, associate professor Skakun L.Z.
• Mineralogical and petrographic features of geotourism sites and monuments of cultural heritage of Western Ukraine. Supervisor: Candidate of Geological Sciences, associate professor Borniak U.I.
• Lithostratigraphy of the Phanerozoic sedimentary cover deposits of the southwestern margin of the Eastern European platform. Supervisor: Candidate of Geological Sciences, Kostiuk O.V.