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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Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://strabospot.org/giga/
This site comprises more than 100 images of whole petrographic thin sections, mostly in paired plane- and polarized-light views. Images are hosted at gigapan.com, and most are >20,000 ...

Thin Section Scans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.rockptx.com/thin-section-scans/
An online library of high resolution, full color scans of over 200 "exotic" igneous, metamorphic and metasomatic rocks in thin section, displayed under both natural ...

Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.virtualmicroscope.co.uk/
The Virtual Microscope was developed for undergraduate teaching of petrology and geoscience at the Open University in the United Kingdom, allowing students to explore rock hand specimens and thin ...

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 ...

Geology photo search page part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.marlimillerphoto.com/search.php
This page contains a search engine to locate specific photos by keyword. All photos are freely downloadable and are at resolutions sufficient for power point.

ModeMaker Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://geology.wwu.edu/dept/faculty/hirschd/research/cod...
This is a program for the Macintosh that allow the user to create diagrams with up to five phases each with a known size mode shape color aspect ratio and alignment. These diagrams can be used by ...

Igneous Rock Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animati...
Through a simple Flash roll over, view hand specimens of different igneous rocks classified according by texture and chemical composition. There are also views of the more common rock forming ...

GeoDIL: A Geoscience Digital Image Library part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20180325211426/http://www.geo...
The Geoscience Digital Image Library (GeoDIL) is a searchable collection of Earth science images intended as a general teaching resource, to specifically facilitate virtual field trips, to enhance ...

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 ...