LEGO® Magma Crystallization Activity part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This exercise uses LEGO® Magma Crystallization Activity building blocks to demonstrate in a simple way how zoned crystals can form in magmas. The exercise also shows how the surrounding melt changes in composition ...

Magma Degassing and Eruption Style 2 part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This activity provides an opportunity for students to work with real data collected from samples from the 2008 eruption of Okmok volcano, Alaska. The homework activity explores how magma gas content can be ...

Magma Degassing 1 part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This exercise introduces students to concepts of how magma gas content is important for eruption style. Students use the vesicles preserved in different volcanic rocks to estimate gas content by calculating ...

Obsidian Dome Outcrop Tour part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
Virtual outcrop tour of a part of Obsidian dome in California. This Google Earth based tour shows photos and outcrop/process descriptions of the different lithologies in the Obsidian dome in Eastern California. ...

Bishop Tuff Degrees of Welding Google Earth tour part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This is a kmz file that can be used in Google Earth to explore different outcrop locations along the LADWP road that goes into the Owens River Gorge. This file can be used as a "virtual outcrop" to ...

Magma Degassing, Crystallization, and Eruption style: Undergraduate Labs and Modules part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This group of lab activities and homework modules focuses on magma crystallization, degassing, and eruption style. The activities include those appropriate for lower-level high school or college geology courses, ...