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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Cosmochemistry Illustrated part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/cosmoeye/index.html
This website offers short PowerPoint presentations that provide extraterrestrial examples of terrestrial topics. Longer presentations are also available for anyone wishing to go into more ...

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 ...

Minerals by Chemical Composition part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/chemical.html
This interactive periodic table displays a listing of minerals by element, sorted by percent of the element. Clicking on a symbol on the table leads users to information on the element (atomic mass ...

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 ...

Metamorphic Phase Diagrams part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PETROLGY/METPHASE.HTM
This site is part of a petrology course offered by Dr. Steve Dutch at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. Topics covered include the phase rule, metamorphic phases and phase diagrams (including ...

Physics Applets part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/index.html
These physics applets involve astrophysics, energy and environment, mechanics, and thermodynamics. The astrophysics applets are related to spectroscopy, photometry, orbital mechanics and cosmology, ...

Metamorphic Phase Diagrams part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PETROLGY/METPHASE.HTM
This site is part of a petrology course offered by Dr. Steve Dutch at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. Topics covered include the phase rule, metamorphic phases and phase diagrams (including ...

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 ...

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 ...