How It’s Done… U-Pb Geochronology Slide Shows part of SERC Web Resource Collection

De-mystify the process of isotope geochronology through this illustrated slide set that explains U-Pb geochronology from collecting samples in the field through processing them in the lab and ...

Flame Atomic Absorbance and Emission Spectroscopy and Inductively Coupled Spectrometry - Mass Spectrometry part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a standard textbook on FAAS, FAES, ICP-AES, and ICP-MS instrument theory and techniques that includes color figures and computer animations. Use of this eTextbook is completely free.

Cosmochemistry Illustrated part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website offers short PowerPoint presentations that provide extraterrestrial examples of terrestrial topics. Longer presentations are also available for anyone wishing to go into more ...

Minerals in Earth's Mantle part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This image from the COMPRES galleries shows the various mineral species that make up the composition of the mantle and how that composition varies with depth down to the core-mantle boundary.

Water in the Mantle part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This schematic shows a cross-section of the planet and how water can migrate through the deep interior of the Earth. Blue arrows indicate a movement of water downward, yellow arrows indicated ...

40 Common Minerals and Their Uses part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Of the ninety two elements found in the Earth, forty of them are used in our daily lives. Some of the names are common and well known, and others seem obscure until one sees that it helps create ...

Emergence of an aerobic biosphere during the Archean-Proterozoic transition: Challenges of future research part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The earth system experienced a series of fundamental upheavals throughout the Archean-Paleoproterozoic transition (ca. 2500-2000 Ma). Most important were the establishment of an oxygen-rich ...

Metamorphic Facies and Metamorphosed Mafic Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This 72-slide PowerPoint presentation discusses mineral assemblages and metamorphic facies in terms of temperature and pressure changes. Eclogite, granulite, amphibolite, blueschist, greenschist, ...

Metamorphic Textures II part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This 60-slide PowerPoint presentation discusses regional metamorphic fabrics, covering foliation, cleavage, schistosity, and lineation. This presentation contains photographs and diagrams that show ...

Petrography and Petrology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site is the home page for the petrography and petrology class at Brock University. The site presents general information about igneous petrology, nomenclature and classification information, ...