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.
Subject: Geoscience
Subject: Geology
- 1 match General/Other
- Environmental Geology 2 matches
- Geochemistry 117 matches
- Geomorphology 9 matches
- Geophysics 21 matches
- Historical Geology 2 matches
- Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 246 matches
- Mineralogy 93 matches
- Sedimentary Geology 24 matches
- Structural Geology 59 matches
- Tectonics 63 matches
Subject: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- 62 matches General/Other
- Geochemistry 60 matches
- Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings 50 matches
- Igneous Processes 72 matches
- Igneous Rocks 33 matches
- Metamorphic Processes 44 matches
- Metamorphic Rocks 18 matches
- Metamorphic Rock Suites and Facies 22 matches
- PTt Relationships 14 matches
- Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria 36 matches
- Volcanology 87 matches
Geologic Setting
Tectonic Setting
Solid Earth Processes
Classes of Earth Materials
- Clays 2 matches
- Deformed Rocks 6 matches Tectonites
- Extraterrestrial Materials 3 matches Meteorites, Interplanetary Dust
- Fluids 9 matches Natural Waters, Brines, Alteration Fluids
- Hydrothermal Rocks 1 match
- Metamorphic Rocks 27 matches
- Ore Deposits 1 match
- Plutonic Rocks 28 matches
- Sedimentary Rocks 2 matches Clastic, Chemical, Biogenic
- Volcanic Rocks 37 matches
Results 61 - 70 of 246 matches
Structure of the Earth and the Origin of Magmas part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This set of lecture notes covers several topics relating to the earth's interior. Seismic waves and the earth's internal structure are discussed. Several mechanisms for the origin of magma ...
Magmatic Differentiation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This set of lecture notes covers a number of topics including magmatic differentiation, chemical variation in rock suites, partial melting, fractional melting, crystal fractionation, Bowen's ...
Igneous Rocks of the Ocean Basins part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These lecture notes introduce magmatism and petrology as they relate to the oceanic lithosphere. The notes cover ophiolite sequences and types of volcanic settings found in ocean basins. A section ...
Igneous Rocks of the Convergent Margins part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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 ...
Types of Metamorphism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This set of lecture notes introduces metamorphic grade and type (contact, regional, cataclastic, hydrothermal, burial, shock), and classification of metamorphic rocks. Further topics include texture, ...
Metamorphic Rock Textures part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These lecture notes discuss metamorphic textures and the mechanisms that create them. A discussion of foliation covers types of stress and the development of foliated rocks from slate to gneiss. Five ...
Contact Metamorphism part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This set of lecture notes about contact metamorphism contains information on contact aureoles, isograds, thermal conductivity, and latent heat of crystallization. Albite-epidote hornfels, hornblende ...
Petrology at Tulane University part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site is the homepage for a petrology class. The primary feature of this site is a comprehensive set of lecture notes. There are 18 separate lectures encompassing igneous and metamorphic ...
Metamorphic Rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource provides a comprehensive introduction to metamorphic rocks. The web site has an alphabetical list of metamorphic rocks, metamorphic classification schemes, an introduction to ...