Educational Resources for Teaching Petrology
This collection of internet resources is intended to help faculty in teaching or designing petrology courses. Many of the resources are lecture notes or PowerPoint presentations that are illustrated with useful diagrams, graphs and figures. There are also course syllabi, petrology projects, and on-line galleries of photomicrographs.
Suggest a URL of an internet resource for this collection. These links may not necessarily have instructional activities associated with them, but they could support teaching of igneous and metamorphic petrology. Examples may include links to government agencies, professional societies, institutions, and include images, maps, databases, tools and reports.
Subject: Geoscience
Subject: Geology
Subject: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- 6 matches General/Other
- Volcanology 23 matches
- Geochemistry 23 matches
- Igneous Processes 54 matches
- Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings 25 matches
- Metamorphic Processes 6 matches
- Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria 10 matches
- PTt Relationships 2 matches
- Metamorphic Rock Suites and Facies 1 match
- Igneous Rocks 17 matches
- Metamorphic Rocks 6 matches
Geologic Setting
Tectonic Setting
Solid Earth Processes
Results 1 - 10 of 54 matches
NAVDAT: The Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The NAVDAT project is compiling existing age, chemical, and isotopic data from Late Cretaceous to Holocene extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks from the western United States, British Columbia, and ...
Geochemical evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an abstract of an online journal (Geology) article which presents geochemical compositions of basalts from the Polynesian "superswell" region of the South ...
Trace Elements in Igneous Processes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is a chapter from a book on geochemistry by Dr. W. M. White used in a geochemistry course at Cornell University. All aspects of trace elements are discussed, including the definition, ...
Geology Fieldnotes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Park Service (NPS) site delivers a brief description of the geology of the Black Hills National Park. Links to park maps, a photo album, books, videos, CDs, and a searchable data base ...
Weird Geology: The Devil's Tower part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page features a brief introduction to the several theories about the geological processes that formed Devil's Tower, which rises 1,267 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River and is still ...
Magma Generation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers the origin of basaltic magmas. Two types of basalt in ocean basins are compared (tholeiitic and ...
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Class Materials part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web site is maintained by John Winter of Whitman College, and contains 31 PowerPoint presentations for an igneous and metamorphic petrology course. The course and the lectures are keyed to his ...
Continental Arc Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 27-slide PowerPoint presentation contains a number of schematic diagrams showing continental arc settings. Chemical comparisons of various continental arc magmas are discussed using isotopic ...
Granitoid Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 16-slide PowerPoint presentation discusses the characteristics of granitoid rocks including geographic occurrence, rare earth elements, enclave characteristics, pressure-temperature conditions, ...
Continental Alkaline Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 32 slide PowerPoint presentation presents a list of alkaline rocks followed by an in depth look at continental alkaline magmatism of the East African Rift system. A chemical, geographic, and ...
