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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Igneous Petrology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2001%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation provides an introduction to the structure of the earth in the context of the generation of igneous ...

Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/cont_lithosphere...
These lecture notes present a discussion of mineralogical classification of granitic rocks, definitions of hypersolvus and subsolvus granites, tectonic and chemical classification, and depth of ...

Igneous Petrology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2001%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation provides an introduction to the structure of the earth in the context of the generation of igneous ...

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 ...

Layered Mafic Intrusions part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2012%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. This 50-slide presentation introduces layered mafic intrusions around the world. The chapter discusses various layered ...

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, ...

Island Arc Magamatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2016%...
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 ...

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. ...