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
Subject: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
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Mineral Identification: The Beauty of Nature part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website contains a set of lessons on mineral identification. Upon completing this exercise, the student will be able to identify many of the common minerals by using the following physical ...
MELTS Home Page part of SERC Web Resource Collection
MELTS is a software package for modeling crystallization of magmatic systems. The MELTS home page provides acess to three types of modeling tools. The software can be used to calculate phase ...
How Do Rocks Melt? Magma, Lava and their Products part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These lecture notes provide a basic introduction to internal earth processes, magma generation, and igneous rock formation. Specific topics include sources of heat, mechanisms for heat loss, the ...
How Do Rocks Melt? Magma, Lava and their Products part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These lecture notes provide a basic introduction to internal earth processes, magma generation, and igneous rock formation. Specific topics include sources of heat, mechanisms for heat loss, the ...
The Aleutian Arc Data System part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Aleutian Arc Data System is an interactive database providing access to chemical, petrographic and spatial data concerning the geology of the Aleutian islands. A summary of physical ...
PETDB: Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page provides an interactive petrological database of the ocean floor. The ultimate goal is to provide a robust, complete reference data library for the petrology and whole earth science ...
GEOROC: Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 Rocks of the Ocean Basins part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 ...
Igneous Rocks of the Convergent Margins part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This set of lecture notes discusses the occurrence and tectonic settings of igneous rocks near convergent plate margins. A discussion of petrography includes major element composition, calc-alkaline ...
Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 ...