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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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.

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 ...

Earth Science World ImageBank part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/index.html
This collection of over 1000 geoscience images is made available to the geoscience community and general public for the purposes of enhancing Earth education, and serving the community of science ...

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 ...

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, ...

Microstructures and Deformation Mechanisms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tectonique.net/MeansCD/contribs/jessell/index...
This is the first in a series of lectures for a microstructures short course. These illustrated lecture notes introduce the topic of microstructures and discuss a variety of deformation mechanisms ...

Microstructures and Deformation Mechanisms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tectonique.net/MeansCD/contribs/jessell/index...
This is the first in a series of lectures for a microstructures short course. These illustrated lecture notes introduce the topic of microstructures and discuss a variety of deformation mechanisms ...

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, ...

EarthScope part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.earthscope.org/
EarthScope applies modern observational, analytical, and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes ...

Structure of the Earth and the Origin of Magmas part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/earths_interior.htm
This set of lecture notes covers several topics relating to the earth's interior. Seismic waves and the earth's internal structure are discussed. Several mechanisms for the origin of magma ...