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
- 1 match General/Other
- Environmental Geology 2 matches
- Geochemistry 74 matches
- Geomorphology 9 matches
- Geophysics 22 matches
- Historical Geology 2 matches
- Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 195 matches
- Mineralogy 70 matches
- Sedimentary Geology 24 matches
- Structural Geology 52 matches
- Tectonics 44 matches
Subject: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- 54 matches General/Other
- Geochemistry 40 matches
- Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings 32 matches
- Igneous Processes 53 matches
- Igneous Rocks 31 matches
- Metamorphic Processes 27 matches
- Metamorphic Rocks 14 matches
- Metamorphic Rock Suites and Facies 12 matches
- PTt Relationships 9 matches
- Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria 19 matches
- Volcanology 70 matches
Geologic Setting
Tectonic Setting
Solid Earth Processes
Classes of Earth Materials
- Clays 1 match
- Deformed Rocks 3 matches Tectonites
- Extraterrestrial Materials 2 matches Meteorites, Interplanetary Dust
- Fluids 5 matches Natural Waters, Brines, Alteration Fluids
- Hydrothermal Rocks 1 match
- Metamorphic Rocks 15 matches
- Ore Deposits 1 match
- Plutonic Rocks 16 matches
- Sedimentary Rocks 1 match Clastic, Chemical, Biogenic
- Volcanic Rocks 21 matches
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Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site comprises more than 100 images of whole petrographic thin sections, mostly in paired plane- and polarized-light views. Images are hosted at gigapan.com, and most are >20,000 ...
Thin Section Scans part of SERC Web Resource Collection
An online library of high resolution, full color scans of over 200 "exotic" igneous, metamorphic and metasomatic rocks in thin section, displayed under both natural ...
Shear zones and crustal blocks of southern India part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This volume is a collection of papers on the shearing and petrological evolution of southern India. It can be used to introduce students to the granulite/upper amphibolite facies rocks. Proceedings ...
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 ...
Allen McNamara's Educational and Research Images and Movies [of Mantle Convection] part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page offers a collection of animations and images related to mantle plumes, mantle convection (2D and 3D), and thermochemical piles.
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 ...
Geology photo search page part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page contains a search engine to locate specific photos by keyword. All photos are freely downloadable and are at resolutions sufficient for power point.
ModeMaker Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a program for the Macintosh that allow the user to create diagrams with up to five phases each with a known size mode shape color aspect ratio and alignment. These diagrams can be used by ...
Igneous Rock Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Through a simple Flash roll over, view hand specimens of different igneous rocks classified according by texture and chemical composition. There are also views of the more common rock forming ...
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 ...