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This collection, from the "On the Cutting Edge" workshop series, features educational resources useful for teaching undergraduate igneous and metamorphic petrology courses. The collection includes lab exercises, classroom activities, problem sets and more. Full description.
Grade level: College (13-14), College (15-16)
Resource type: Classroom activity, Lab activity, Problem set
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This is a chapter on spectroscopy from The Manual of Remote Sensing, Volume 3, Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences. Topics in the chapter include an overview of spectroscopy, the reflection and absorption process, causes of absorption, spectra of miscellaneous minerals and materials, the sensitivity of absorption bands to crystal structure and chemistry and the scattering process. The chapter also ... Full description.
Grade level: College (13-14), College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Ref. material, Book - text
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This website describes the animations and software Crystal Movies, XtalDraw, and XPow. Crystal Movies are gif animations that illustrate the evolution of crystal structures as functions of pressure, temperature, chemistry, or orientation. XtalDraw is an interactive Windows-based software that draws ball and stick, polyhedral, and thermal ellipsoid representations of crystal and molecular structures. ... Full description.
Grade level: College (13-14), College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Visualization - scientific, Software
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This site, maintained by the Environmental and Soil Geochemistry group at Dartmouth, is an overview of three types of spectroscopy, including X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction. A brief description of each process and its applications is included. Full description.
Grade level: College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This resource provides study directions and materials for a unit on deformation and creep as part of a lecture from a structural geology course taught by Dr. David McConnell at the University of Akron. The notes briefly cover microscopic deformation mechanisms, including microfracturing, cataclasis, frictional sliding, mechanical twinning, and kinking, as well as diffusion, dissolution, and dislocation ... Full description.
Grade level: College (15-16)
Resource type: Syllabus, Glossary, Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This site features a lecture by Dr. Stephen Nelson from Tulane University that explores a systematic way to define crystallographic angles. The lecture discusses crystallographic angles and gives an introduction to the use of stereographic projections for depicting the angular relationships between crystal faces. Scientific illustrations clarify the text. Full description.
Grade level: College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Illustration - scientific, Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This site is a lecture by Dr. Stephen Nelson from Tulane University that explores the use of the Miller Index notation to designate crystal forms. Topics include crystal forms, general and special forms, and open and closed forms. Also discussed is the relationship between form and crystal faces, along with zones and zone symbols, the vectorial properties of crystals, and crystal habit. Tables and ... Full description.
Grade level: College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Illustration - scientific, Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This resource is a 43 page pdf document on the principals of optical mineralogy. Topics include light, the polarizing light microscope, the refractive index, optical classes and indicatrix theory, the relationship of optical properties to crystal chemistry, and advanced methods in optical mineralogy. The website features both text and figures. Full description.
Grade level: College (13-14), College (15-16), Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This resource is an outline of a course on optical mineralogy. Topics include Properties of Light, Refractometry, Isotropic Materials, Anisotropic Minerals, Optical Properties, Uniaxial Minerals, and Biaxial Minerals. This website features tables with the optical properties of many minerals, along with thin section photographs and lecture notes. The website would be useful for students of mineralogy ... Full description.
Grade level: High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16)
Resource type: Course, Syllabus
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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This website, from the American Museum of Natural History, highlights a former exhibition about diamonds. Beginning with a basic definition, it covers the formation, history, and mining & distribution of diamonds, as well as their use as gemstones and as an industrial material. Full description.
Grade level: Informal
Resource type: Illustration - scientific, Photograph, Index / Bibliography, Ref. material
Subject: Mineralogy or petrology
 
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