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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    Mineral Resources On Line Spatial Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

    http://mrdata.usgs.gov/index.html
    Ths portal allows users to view or download spatial data on regional and global geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and mineral resources. The data can be accessed by using interactive map browsers of ...

    Ultra-High-Pressure Experimentalist Who Studies the Deep Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

    http://www.amnh.org/explore/resource-collections/earth-i...
    This article profiles the work of Elise Knittle, whose research specialty is mineral physics. The essay gives an overview of the core, mantle, and crust of the Earth, including what we know about ...

    PETDB: Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor part of SERC Web Resource Collection

    http://www.petdb.org/
    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 ...

    The Stillwater Complex, Montana: Geology and Guide part of SERC Print Resource Collection
    This Special Publication contains a geological synthesis of the Stillwater Complex and gives detailed directions to, and descriptions of, outstanding exposures. It is intended to provide the ...