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GEOL 350
Petrology
Dr. Andrew H. Wulff
Lecture: 11:10 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. EST room 316 |
Textbook: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology – John Winter (Prentice-Hall)
Feel free to go to John Winter's homepage - which has downloadable PowerPoint presentations, using figures and tables from his text. Click on Petrology (on the left) and it will take you to the download page.
Attendance: Attendance is required and participation strongly encouraged. Students are responsible for all material covered in class, whether or not they are in attendance. I expect students to be on time for both lecture and lab sessions.
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World
Wide Web
The WWWeb will be used as a resource to supplement our texts and additional readings. There are quite a few good sites on the WWWeb that offer lecture notes from other universities, software and freeware, photos and photomicrographs, geochemical modeling programs, ........ and just a lot of fun and cool stuff pertaining to rocks and volcanoes and such. So - This course page will exist primarily as a clearing house for a number of good sites. Some of these are included on other WKU pages. So - Have at it!!
You all will need to review Optical Microscopy techniques for the labs.
So – might as well start with this Short Review of Optical Microscopy
Petrogenetic
and Geochemical Modeling
Mineral Data Sets Links
Minerals in Thin Section Links
Chemical data obtained from the WWWeb.
The Interactive Periodic
Table at this site (Los Alamos National Lab) is one of the best available
on the WWWeb, as is this Periodic Table and this one. There are many others - in all languages - and
with slightly different emphases.
A word of caution: some contain erroneous information - so -
BEWARE.
Reference Materials
A downloadable reference file and links
to other reference sites
A list of online (and
other) journals having to do with volcanoes
Tephra Base
UC-Santa Barbara - Volcano
Information Center
A Couple of Additional Links
A comprehensive page of Links for Petrologists from UNI-Wuerzburg
A Tour of Igneous
Rocks from John Francis at
A page on Magma Mixing based on papers by Blake and Ivey
A page of Igneous Textures from
Peter K. Haff at
Another page of Igneous Textures
from
A page of common Metamorphic
Textures from
Referencing the WWWeb
A final word concerning any of the information you glean from the WWW; there is
no peer review process in place for WWWebsites -
which means that ANYONE can put something on the WWWeb.
Be careful to check all the sources and (if you can) find out a bit concerning
the person (s) in charge of maintaining the site. If you do use materials from
the WWWeb, be sure to reference them accordingly. A
few suggestions may be found in an article called: “Beyond the MLA Handbook:
Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet by Andrew Harnack
and Gene Kleppinger.
It shows examples of how to cite web pages, newsgroups, email, etc. You may find it at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/inbox/mla_archive.html.
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