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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          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 ...

          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 ...

          The Stillwater Complex, Montana: Geology and Guide part of SERC Print Resource Collection
          This Special Publication contains a geological synthesis of the Stillwater Complex and gives detailed directions to, and descriptions of, outstanding exposures. It is intended to provide the ...

          Precambrian and Mesozoic Plate Margins: Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with field guides for the 8th International Conference on Basement Tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
          This volume describes the geology along the routes of two field trips. The papers in the first part of the volume take the reader from the Stillwater Complex across the Beartooth Plateau, to the ...

          Geology and America's National Park Areas part of SERC Print Resource Collection
          This book serves as an introduction to the geology of National Parks and park systems in the United States. An array of photographs, maps, stratigraphic columns, charts, illustrations, and graphs are ...

          Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Western Montana part of SERC Print Resource Collection
          From Great Falls, to Butte, Helena Glacier National Park and Spokane, this field trip crosses onto the leading edge of the Rocky Mountain thrust belt and proceeds to the stratiform copper-silver ...

          Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana part of SERC Print Resource Collection
          This guide describes many of the major geologic features of the Park. It is directed toward the Park visitor with little to no background in geology. The guide begins with a short introduction to the ...