Dave Hirsch

Mineral Properties Sheets part of Mineralogy:Activities
This activity consists of a set of 69 mineral sheets to be used as part of a term-length set of labs. Each sheet has spaces to write physical and optical properties for each mineral, and a crystal form diagram ...

Binary Phase Diagram Problems part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
This activity features a problem set designed to make students think carefully about the link between phase diagrams and textures.

Microsoft Excel Basic Tutorial part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
This assignment walks students through the creation of an Excel spreadsheet, step by step. It includes numerical fills via copy, creation of fixed and relative formulas, formula fill via copy, and some summary ...

Introduction to Microsoft Excel part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
This assignment walks students through the creation of an Excel spreadsheet, step by step. It includes fills, references, formulas, and charts.

Indicatrix Movies part of Mineralogy:Activities
These movies show the indicatrix, a mineral, the principal indices of refraction, and the interference color predicted, all changing as the cut through the mineral varies. It is meant to be a lecture aid, or can be ...

Mineral Properties Sheets part of Mineralogy:Activities
A set of 69 mineral sheets to be used as part of a term-length set of labs. Each sheet has spaces to write physical and optical proerties for each mineral, and a crystal form diagram scannned from Nesse and/or ...

Blender part of Visualization:Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations:Visualization Tools
Blender is a free, open-source tool for creating and animating 3D content. It is available for all major operating systems. It allows the creation and modification of graphics primitives, surfaces, etc. along with ...

Advanced Modeling Programs: Perplex part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching Phase Equilibria
Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University, with reference to Julie Baldwin's THERMOCALC page What is Perplex? Perplex is a thermodynamic calculation package suitable for rapidly creating phase diagrams of ...

Advanced Modeling Programs: Perplex-THERMOCALC Comparison part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching Phase Equilibria
Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University and Julie Baldwin, University of Montana Both Perplex and THERMOCALC have the ability to create a wide range of phase diagrams, pseudosections, and estimate mineral and ...

Pseudosections part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching Phase Equilibria
Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University, Julie Baldwin, University of Montana, and Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota What is a Pseudosection? A pseudosection, also called an equilibrium phase diagram, ...

Different Kinds of Reactions part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching Phase Equilibria
Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University Examples of phase diagrams and reactions in jpg, pdf and animated-pdf format are available. A 5 page summary (Acrobat (PDF) 158kB Aug1 07) of this information is ...

Naming/Classifying Metamorphic Rocks part of Petrology:Teaching Examples
This is a two-page embodiment of the draft IUGS standard on naming metamorphic rocks. It's highly simplified, but useful for teaching metamorphic petrology.

Andesites, Basalts, Schists, and More part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Rock and Mineral Exchange:Postings
Dave Hirsch, Western Washington University hirschd@geol.wwu.edu Description of Available Specimens How many pieces are available: Small Group of Specimens Andesites, basalts, blueschist/greenschist (intermediate ...