Educational Resources for Teaching Petrology
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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Subject: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Show all
- 62 matches General/Other
- Geochemistry 7 matches
- Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings 5 matches
- Igneous Processes 9 matches
- Igneous Rocks 4 matches
- Metamorphic Processes 2 matches
- Metamorphic Rocks 3 matches
- Metamorphic Rock Suites and Facies 2 matches
- Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria 6 matches
- Volcanology 2 matches
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Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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 ...
Shear zones and crustal blocks of southern India part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This volume is a collection of papers on the shearing and petrological evolution of southern India. It can be used to introduce students to the granulite/upper amphibolite facies rocks. Proceedings ...
Allen McNamara's Educational and Research Images and Movies [of Mantle Convection] part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page offers a collection of animations and images related to mantle plumes, mantle convection (2D and 3D), and thermochemical piles.
Geology photo search page part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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 ...
From ODP to CPR; using Ocean Drilling Program data in calibrated peer review assignments part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In the past two decades an enormous amount of data has been accumulated by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). Much of ODP's data are accessible on ODP's webpage (http://www-odp.tamu.edu), ...
GeoDIL: A Geoscience Digital Image Library part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 ...
EarthRef: Website for Physical and Chemical Earth References part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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 ...