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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          National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's Operational Significant Event Imagery part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/History/osei/
          This web page provides high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events. Links are available to images on the following subjects: current events, dust storms, fires, floods, ...

          Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/TOMS/tomsl3_dataset...
          This NASA website documents the detection, tracking and measurement of volcanic eruption plumes from space. The site features an image archive of satellite data that has been used to create maps and ...

          Volcanic Emissions and Global Cooling part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://plaza.ufl.edu/airwess/
          This site provides information about the effects of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide volcanic emissions on global climate. Helpful diagrams depict the chemical processes involved in atmospheric ...

          Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
          The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is a research division of Columbia University dedicated to understanding how the planet Earth works. Included in this page are the various areas of research the ...

          Discover Our Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii/220/PRI/PRI_PT_home.html
          Discover Our Earth contains a wide range of information related to Earth science using graphs, maps, and movies. The focal topics are earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, plate tectonics, and sea ...

          Discover Our Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii/220/PRI/PRI_PT_home.html
          Discover Our Earth contains a wide range of information related to Earth science using graphs, maps, and movies. The focal topics are earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, plate tectonics, and sea ...

          Aerosol haze likely source of sulfate in ancient volcanic ash bed part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/jh092303.html#2

          Visible Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
          This site provides a searchable collection of NASA Earth science images, animations and data visualizations. Most images are available at multiple resolutions, with a description of the image and ...

          Cerritos College Earth Science On-Line Tutorial Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://www.cerritos.edu/earth-science/tutor/tutorial_cen...
          This site feature on-line tutorials on a variety of topics including earth materials, earth processes, landform identification, topographic map reviews, earth science math review and more. Students ...

          Black Hills part of SERC Web Resource Collection

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills#Geology
          This Wikipedia page provides a brief introduction to the Black Hills. Topics include history, geology, biosystems, tourism and economy, and Black Hills in film.