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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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 ...

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 ...

The Mineral Gallery part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mineral.galleries.com/index.html
This web page provides access to a constantly growing collection of mineral descriptions, images, and specimens. The user can search by mineral name, class, groupings - gemstones, birthstones, etc. - ...

Ultra-High-Pressure Experimentalist Who Studies the Deep Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/explore/resource-collections/earth-i...
This article profiles the work of Elise Knittle, whose research specialty is mineral physics. The essay gives an overview of the core, mantle, and crust of the Earth, including what we know about ...

Mineral Structure Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ruby.colorado.edu/~smyth/min/minerals.html
This site consists of a compilation of crystallographic and physical property data for most of the rock-forming minerals. Thirteen mineral groups are included: single oxides, multiple oxides, ...

Radiometric Dating part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/radiometric_dati...
This set of lecture notes covers the concept of radiometric dating. Topics covered include half-life, parent, and daughter isotopes, Rb/Sr systems, and Ur/Th/Pb systems. Determination of the age of ...

Metamorphic Fluids and Metasomatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2030%...
This 33-slide PowerPoint presentation introduces metamorphic fluids and metasomatism. Topics covered include fluid speciation, solubility of chemical species, equilibrium of mineral species in zones, ...

Radiometric Dating part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/radiometric_dati...
This set of lecture notes covers the concept of radiometric dating. Topics covered include half-life, parent, and daughter isotopes, Rb/Sr systems, and Ur/Th/Pb systems. Determination of the age of ...

Metamorphic Fluids and Metasomatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2030%...
This 33-slide PowerPoint presentation introduces metamorphic fluids and metasomatism. Topics covered include fluid speciation, solubility of chemical species, equilibrium of mineral species in zones, ...