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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Magma Diversification part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2011%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. Subjects include fractional crystallization, compaction, flow segregation, volatile transport, the Soret Effect, ...

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 ...

GEOROC: Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de/georoc/
GEOROC (Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents) is intended to become a global geochemical database containing published chemical and isotopic data as well as extensive metadata for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magma Diversification part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2011%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. Subjects include fractional crystallization, compaction, flow segregation, volatile transport, the Soret Effect, ...

Anorthosites part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2020%...
This 11-slide PowerPoint presentation presents a short succession of schematic diagrams illustrating the structural evolution of anorthosites. The slides discuss the relative abundance of rare earth ...