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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      Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.virtualmicroscope.co.uk/
      The Virtual Microscope was developed for undergraduate teaching of petrology and geoscience at the Open University in the United Kingdom, allowing students to explore rock hand specimens and thin ...

      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 ...

      Igneous Rock Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animati...
      Through a simple Flash roll over, view hand specimens of different igneous rocks classified according by texture and chemical composition. There are also views of the more common rock forming ...

      Interactive Rock Cycle Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/conten...
      This highly simplified Flash animation displays some of the most common rock-forming processes. Embedded animations include crystallization of magma to form igneous rock, rock erosion to create ...

      Igneous Rock Crystallization Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/conten...
      This Flash animation contains three separate movies, each exhibiting the formation of an igneous rocks in a different environment: a) rocks forming from a deep magma chamber where the slow cooling of ...

      Classification of Igneous Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2002%...
      This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers classification of phaneritic igneous rocks, gabbroic rocks, ultramafic rocks, pyroclastic rocks ...

      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 ...

      Classification of Igneous Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/Petrology/Ch%2002%...
      This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation covers classification of phaneritic igneous rocks, gabbroic rocks, ultramafic rocks, pyroclastic rocks ...

      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 ...

      Geological images part of SERC Web Resource Collection

      https://pages.uoregon.edu/millerm/slides.html
      This site from Marli Bryant Miller, a professor at the University of Oregon, presents images of geological features from around the world. Photographs of glacial features, igneous and metamorphic ...