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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EarthRef: Website for Physical and Chemical Earth References part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://earthref.org/index.html
The EarthRef web site contains several online databases, downloadable modeling tools, and more. The databases include GERM (Geochemical Earth Reference Model), the EarthRef Digital Archive, the ...

Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Geochemistry
This website contains an abundance of data on the geochemistry of igneous rocks. The site provides very brief descriptions of many types of terrestrial and lunar igneous rocks, their regional ...

MELTS Home Page part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://melts.ofm-research.org/
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 ...

Radiogenic Isotopes And Geochronology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/geol423/topic_4.htm
This resource provides illustrated lecture notes from a geochemistry course offered by Dr. Scott Wood at the University of Idaho. Topics include the law of radioactivity and the general ...

Radiogenic Isotopes And Geochronology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/geol423/topic_4.htm
This resource provides illustrated lecture notes from a geochemistry course offered by Dr. Scott Wood at the University of Idaho. Topics include the law of radioactivity and the general ...

Mantle Plumes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mantleplumes.org/index.html
This site provides a broad suite of information and resources about "hot spots" and the current debate as to their existence. The site features technical tutorials and publications on a ...

Introduction to Petrography part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/petrography/petrography.html
This Introduction to Petrography homepage from the University of Houston contains a variety of instructional materials. Topics covered include tectonics, the rock cycle, mineralogy, sedimentary, ...

Introduction to Petrography part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/petrography/petrography.html
This Introduction to Petrography homepage from the University of Houston contains a variety of instructional materials. Topics covered include tectonics, the rock cycle, mineralogy, sedimentary, ...

Magmatic Differentiation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/magmadiff.htm
This set of lecture notes covers a number of topics including magmatic differentiation, chemical variation in rock suites, partial melting, fractional melting, crystal fractionation, Bowen's ...

Phase Rule and Binary Systems part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2006%...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers the crystal behavior of melts through the phase rule, pressure/temperature diagrams, isobaric ...