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NDSU Geosciences Petrology 422/622 Spring 2006
Petrology, Petrography, and Geochemistry Links Page
Petrology and Optical Microscopy
- Intro to Igneous (http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc221/igneous/igneous.html)
Introduction to Petrology from University of British Columbia's Web Site
- Intro to Metamorphic (http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc221/meta/metamorphic.html)
Introduction to Metamorphic Petrology at University of British Columbia's Web Site
- Petrology lecture notes from Tulane University (http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212/index.html#Lecture%20Notes)
An impressive and complete set of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic petrology lecture notes, in both html and PDF formats.
- A links page to online petrology course pages (http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anoncoursepetr.html)
From the Virtual Geoscience Professor (University of Houston, Texas)
- A links page for mineralogy and petrology resources, by John Winter (http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/MinPetLinks.htm)
- Optical Mineralogy Course Notes from Tulane University (http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens211/index.html)
Course notes on Optical Mineralogy can be found in both html and PDF formats on the Tulane University Geology Dept. web site.
- Mineralogy Course Notes from Claude Herzberg (http://geology.rutgers.edu:16080/~herzberg/mineralogy301/)
Includes a great explanation of inverted pigeonite (see #20), with microphotographs.
- Links for Minerals in Thin Section (http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links/petrology/thinsection.html
from Uni-Würzburg.
- Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section (http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~jdl1/petrography.page.html)
Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section from Humboldt State University's Web Site
- Minerals under the Microscope (http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/opmin/mins.html)
Minerals under the Microscope from University of Bristol Earth Sciences' Web Site
- The Open University's Virtual Microscope http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/dualviewj.html)
- U. North Carolina Atlas of Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals, & Textures
(http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html)
- Petrographic Workshop (http://www.pslc.ucla.edu/pet/pet_intro.html)
Petrographic Workshop is an interactive database designed to help students and teachers better deal with the important and challenging discipline of petrography. The program is designed as a source of mineralogical information used in the identification process of rocks and minerals.
- The Sonju Lake Intrusion, Northern Minnesota (http://www.macalester.edu/geology/sonju/sonjuhome.html)
Pictures and descriptions of outcrops, and chemistry from the famous layered mafic intrusion in the Duluth Complex. Hosted by Karl Wirth of Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Oman Ophiolite Pictures (http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/vft/oman.html)
Pictures and descriptions of outcrops from the famous ophiolite in Oman.
- Roberto Weinberg's Geosite (http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/%7Eweinberg/index.html)
Including pictures of Physical Igneous Petrology, Magmatic Structures, Mingling of Pegmatites and Diorites, Layering, Segregation structures, and more
- Practical Aspects of Mineral Thermobarometry (http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa/pt/index.html)
A tutorial with links to software, by Dave Waters.
Petrology and Petrography
Web-accessible Databases of Whole-Rock Geochemical Analyses for Igneous Rocks and related links:
- EarthChem, a 'One-stop-shop for geochemical data': http://www.earthchem.org/ with links to a number of databases.
- Georoc: http://georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de/georoc/
- Navdat: Late Cretaceous to Holocene extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks from the western United States, British Columbia, and northern Mexico. http://navdat.kgs.ku.edu/
- PetDB - A Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor: http://www.petdb.org/
- Geokem: http://www.geokem.com/index.html
Geochemistry of igneous rocks from the
- PLUTO
database from USGS: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/pluto/igneous/
- PETROS, a worldwide database of igneous rock geochemistry: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/petros.html
- IGBA - IGneous data BAse - Global Database in Igneous Petrology: http://www.koka.ac.jp/yamamoto/igba/igba.htm
- Volcanic Glass Data File, Smithsonian Institution: http://www.minerals.si.edu/research/glass/
GeoChemicalData ToolKIT, or in short GCDkit, is a Windows program written by V. Janousek, C. M. Farrow, V. Erban & J. Smid for handling and recalculation of whole-rock analyses from igneous rocks.
* Standard geochemical calculations involving major-, trace-element as well as Sr-Nd data
* Effective data management (searching, grouping)
* Common plots (binary, ternary, spider diagrams)
* Graphic output to publication quality
* Modular architecture (= easily expandable and modifiable)
* Transparent functionality & availability (open sourcefreeware, WWW)
- Petrograph, a program to visualize, elaborate and model geochemical data. http://www.unipg.it/~maurip/SOFTWARE.htm
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