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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      Magma Generation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2010%...
      This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers the origin of basaltic magmas. Two types of basalt in ocean basins are compared (tholeiitic and ...

      Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Class Materials part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/JDW_PetClass.htm
      This web site is maintained by John Winter of Whitman College, and contains 31 PowerPoint presentations for an igneous and metamorphic petrology course. The course and the lectures are keyed to his ...

      Magma Generation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2010%...
      This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers the origin of basaltic magmas. Two types of basalt in ocean basins are compared (tholeiitic and ...

      Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Class Materials part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/JDW_PetClass.htm
      This web site is maintained by John Winter of Whitman College, and contains 31 PowerPoint presentations for an igneous and metamorphic petrology course. The course and the lectures are keyed to his ...

      Montana High-Potassium Igneous Province part of SERC Print Resource Collection
      This field trip guidebook was published as part of the 28th International Geological Congress and features six road logs to major and minor igneous centers in central Montana. This broad area has ...