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 Rocks of the Convergent Margins part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/converg_margins.htm
This set of lecture notes discusses the occurrence and tectonic settings of igneous rocks near convergent plate margins. A discussion of petrography includes major element composition, calc-alkaline ...

Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/cont_lithosphere...
These lecture notes present a discussion of mineralogical classification of granitic rocks, definitions of hypersolvus and subsolvus granites, tectonic and chemical classification, and depth of ...

Continental Arc Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2017%...
This 27-slide PowerPoint presentation contains a number of schematic diagrams showing continental arc settings. Chemical comparisons of various continental arc magmas are discussed using isotopic ...

Continental Alkaline Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2019%...
This 32 slide PowerPoint presentation presents a list of alkaline rocks followed by an in depth look at continental alkaline magmatism of the East African Rift system. A chemical, geographic, and ...

Continental Arc Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2017%...
This 27-slide PowerPoint presentation contains a number of schematic diagrams showing continental arc settings. Chemical comparisons of various continental arc magmas are discussed using isotopic ...

Continental Alkaline Magmatism part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2019%...
This 32 slide PowerPoint presentation presents a list of alkaline rocks followed by an in depth look at continental alkaline magmatism of the East African Rift system. A chemical, geographic, and ...

Igneous Rocks of the Convergent Margins part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/converg_margins.htm
This set of lecture notes discusses the occurrence and tectonic settings of igneous rocks near convergent plate margins. A discussion of petrography includes major element composition, calc-alkaline ...

Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/cont_lithosphere...
These lecture notes present a discussion of mineralogical classification of granitic rocks, definitions of hypersolvus and subsolvus granites, tectonic and chemical classification, and depth of ...