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
- 2 matches General/Other
- Volcanology 2 matches
- Geochemistry 4 matches
- Igneous Processes 6 matches
- Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings 4 matches
- Metamorphic Processes 8 matches
- Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria 3 matches
- PTt Relationships 3 matches
- Metamorphic Rock Suites and Facies 4 matches
- Igneous Rocks 10 matches
- Metamorphic Rocks 15 matches
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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 ...
Introduction to Metamorphism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 83-slide PowerPoint presentation introduces metamorphic agents and changes. Stress, strain, tension, compression, and shear are discussed as well as the lineation or foliation that results from ...
A Classification of Metamorphic Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 24-slide PowerPoint presentation describes the classification of metamorphic rocks using texture and composition. Foliation, lineation, cleavage, schistosity, gneissose structure, hornfels, and ...
Stable Mineral Assemblages in Metamorphic Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 81-slide PowerPoint presentation reviews the phase rule in terms of metamorphic systems, using the brucite-periclase system as an example. Binary and ternary chemographic diagrams are used to ...
Metamorphic Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource provides a comprehensive introduction to metamorphic rocks. The web site has an alphabetical list of metamorphic rocks, metamorphic classification schemes, an introduction to ...
Interactive Rock Cycle Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This highly simplified Flash animation displays some of the most common rock-forming processes. Embedded animations include crystallization of magma to form igneous rock, rock erosion to create ...
Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Virtual Microscope was developed for undergraduate teaching of petrology and geoscience at the Open University in the United Kingdom, allowing students to explore rock hand specimens and thin ...
The Stillwater Complex, Montana: Geology and Guide part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Special Publication contains a geological synthesis of the Stillwater Complex and gives detailed directions to, and descriptions of, outstanding exposures. It is intended to provide the ...
Precambrian and Mesozoic Plate Margins: Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with field guides for the 8th International Conference on Basement Tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This volume describes the geology along the routes of two field trips. The papers in the first part of the volume take the reader from the Stillwater Complex across the Beartooth Plateau, to the ...
Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This guide describes many of the major geologic features of the Park. It is directed toward the Park visitor with little to no background in geology. The guide begins with a short introduction to the ...
