Metamorphic Facies CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. Students plot pressure and temperature points from metamorphic environments (i.e. subduction zone and continental convergence) onto the ...

The rock record of east-dipping Jurassic subduction along the western Cordilleran margin part of Cutting Edge:Courses:Structural Geology and Tectonics:2024 Structure and Tectonics Forum:Abstracts
Sean Mulcahy, Western Washington University Elizabeth Schermer, Western Washington University Nicholas Cunetta, Western Washington University Abstract The age and polarity of subduction along the western margin of ...

Calculating Pressures and Temperatures of Petrologic Events: Geothermobarometry part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
In this lab exercise, students examine one or more metamorphic rocks and use various approaches to estimating and calculating the pressure-temperature conditions at which the rocks equilibrated. The exercise ...

Subduction zone metamorphism part of MARGINS Data in the Classroom:Mini Lesson Collection 2014
This module introduces students to subduction zone metamorphism through the examination of rock samples, calculating P-T-t paths, and comparing them to thermal model predictions of P-T paths.

Metamorphic Petrology part of Course Design:Goals Database
Metamorphic petrology covers the chemical and physical work done in natural systems in response to changing physical conditions. Petrogenetic processes such as recrystallization, continuous and discontinuous ...

Igneous Dike and Metamorphic Rock Lab and Field Project part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
This is a semester-long lab and field project to study the petrology, petrography and tectonics of the Mesozoic dikes and intrusives, and Precambrian granulite facies metamorphic rocks from the Champlain Valley, ...

"Classical" Thermobarometry part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching Phase Equilibria
Donna Whitney, University of Minnesota Thermobarometry is the quantitative determination of the temperature and pressure at which a metamorphic or igneous rock reached chemical equilibrium. The term ...

Metastability during metamorphism (reading a metamorphic petrology paper from the literature) part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
I use this problem set as a way to introduce students (mostly sophomores) to reading a technical article from the literature. The paper is Austrheim, H, 1987, Eclogitization of lower crustal granulites by fluid ...

Progressive metamorphism of pelitic rocks: A lab assignment to facilitate translation from AFM space to P-T space part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
This is an example of a lab activity aimed at teaching students how to go from natural samples to AFM diagrams to P-T conditions of equilibration.

The Central Piedmont Shear Zone of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum Abstracts
Allen Dennis, Univ South Carolina Aiken The central Piedmont shear zone in western South Carolina, sometimes called the Cross Anchor fault, juxtaposes Ediacaran-Cambrian rocks of Carolinia with Silurian Cat Square ...