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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 ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Metamorphic Textures I part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This PowerPoint presentation covers metamorphic textures such as relict, deformation, recrystallization, and recovery. Contact metamorphic textures are discussed, including decussate, granoblastic ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
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 ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Petrology, Chapter 24: Metamorphic Mineral Assemblages 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 ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Binary and Greater Systems part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers isobaric ternary T-X diagrams (An-Di-Fo), liquidus, intensive variables, cotectic, peritectic, ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Major Element Chemistry part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation includes a diagram describing how modern spectrographic instruments sample emitted radiation and ...Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes
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 ...Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes
Island Arc Magamatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 50 slide PowerPoint presentation introduces the basic structural facets of an island arc system. Magma series (tholeiitic, alkaline, calc-alkaline) and differentiation within magma series are ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Maps, Images/Illustrations
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, ...Resource Type: Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
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 ...Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Maps, Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations