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 ...

Continental Alkaline Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2019%...

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 ...

Oceanic Intraplate Volcanism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2014%...

This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. This 29-slide presentation covers the compositional evolution of basalt using high field strength, large-ion lithophile, ...

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. ...