Educational Resources for Teaching Petrology

Examining chromite horizons at the Stillwater mine

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.

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Structure of the Earth and the Origin of Magmas part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/earths_interior.htm

This set of lecture notes covers several topics relating to the earth's interior. Seismic waves and the earth's internal structure are discussed. Several mechanisms for the origin of magma ...

Igneous Rocks of the Ocean Basins part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/ocean_basins.htm

These lecture notes introduce magmatism and petrology as they relate to the oceanic lithosphere. The notes cover ophiolite sequences and types of volcanic settings found in ocean basins. A section ...

Granitoid Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2018%...

This 16-slide PowerPoint presentation discusses the characteristics of granitoid rocks including geographic occurrence, rare earth elements, enclave characteristics, pressure-temperature conditions, ...

Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2013%...

This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. This 37-slide presentation starts by presenting a generalized map of the earth's rift system. The composition of ...

Continental Flood Basalts part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2015%...

This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. This 17-slide presentation addresses the major flood basalts. The Columbia River flood basalts are discussed in detail. ...