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Metamorphic Petrology LinksThis page contains annotated links to material about metamorphic rocks, migmatites and granitoid rocks, and related areas of "hard-rock" geology. Volcanoes capture the public imagination, but other areas of petrology are under-represented on the Web, and resource indexes rarely give petrology its own section. I hope this page will help to draw some of the existing resources together.
I have tried to stick to petrology - i.e. studies of rocks. It would be easy to fill the page with mineralogical links, but others have covered this area pretty well. I have included mineral links where, for example, they show images of metamorphic minerals in the context of the rock. On the theoretical side, I have included links to the thermodynamics of metamorphic and igneous rock systems.
I have organised them into the following categories:
Links for Mineralogists, Würzburg University,
Germany
A very thorough set of links maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber.
Several of these pages have metamorphic content.
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html
John Winter
Has a set of Mineralogy and petrology links of similar scope to
Andrea Koziol's
http://people.whitman.edu/~winterj/
Jürgen Kraus's
Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology Resources on the
WWW
http://craton.geol.BrockU.CA/guest/jurgen/struct.htm
(Probably not updated since 1998)
Petrology from PSIgate
Physical Sciences information gateway from the UK academic
community's Resource Discovery Network
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/ROADS/subject-listing/earth/552.html
Metamorphic
Rocks from GeologyLink, from the Houghton Mifflin
Company
This is a publishers' support site, though quite a useful one.
Many other lists of on-line resources have some petrology content, although it's not usually in a category of its own. Try my general Earth Science resources page.
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Home page, with information (e.g. on Society meetings) and
resources, and access to Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals
ONLINE
http://www.minersoc.org/
Mineralogical Society of America
Publications, details of forthcoming meetings, membership info,
WWW resources, crystal structure database.
http://www.minsocam.org/
Geological Society of America
Check out relevant meetings, publications (Geology,
Bulletin), the Data Repository.
http://www.geosociety.org/
American Geophysical Union
Includes a facility to search the abstracts of AGU meetings, and
links to AGU journals, including the electronic journal
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed).
http://earth.agu.org/
American Mineralogist
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/AmMineral.html
Journal of Petrology
http://petrology.oupjournals.org/
or
http://intl-petrology.oupjournals.org
Geology (Geological Society of America)
http://www.aescon.com/geosociety/pubs/geology.htm
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00410/index.htm
Mineralogical Magazine
http://www.catchword.com/titles/minsoc/0026461x/contp1-1.htm
Andrea Koziol (Dayton, Ohio) keeps a fuller list of mineralogy and petrology journals.
Geoscience Journals
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoJournals.html
Links to publishers:
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers.html
Geo-Tectonics
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/GEO-TECTONICS.html
Geo-Mineralisation
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/GEO-MINERALISATION.html
Petrological research groups are listed in the following compilations:
Otherwise, make use of the following lists of Earth Science departments:
N American Geoscience Departments (V.J. Ansfield, S
Dakota)
http://www.usd.edu/esci/geodepts.html
Links To More Geoscience Department Directories
http://www.usd.edu/esci/other.html
I have listed here a small selection of hard rock researchers' home pages which are worth a visit for the variety or quality of material they offer.
Frank Spear, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
USA
http://ees2.geo.rpi.edu/spear/spear.html
Illustrated research activities, and downloadable Mac software,
including the Gibbs program.
Garnet
Images (colour composition maps)
Accompany the American Mineralogist paper "Pressure-temperature-
reaction history of metapelitic rocks from the Maryland Piedmont
based on correlated garnet zoning and plagioclase inclusions" by
H.M. Lang.
G.M.
Dipple's Metamorphic Group @ UBC
Give summaries of their field and modelling studies in thermal
aureoles
[Can't connect Jan 2004]
Larry
Meinert's Skarn Page
An illustrated review paper and other information about
metasomatic rocks and their economic potential.
Microstructures
of Metamorphic Rocks
An on-line poster describing how crystal size distributions
shed light on aspects of metamorphic reaction kinetics.
Crystal
Size Distributions
In volcanic rocks (but of more general applicability) by Tony Peterson.
[Not currently available Jan 2004]
Origin of Granulites: an annotated reading list.
Caltech Experimental
Petrology Home Page
Igneous petrology and mineral spectroscopy, mainly, but good
accounts of current research (Ed Stolper, Peter Wyllie, and George
Rossman).
Episodic,
Channelled Fluid Flow from Internal and External Sources: Reynolds
Range, Central Australia
by Ian Cartwright (Department of Earth Sciences, Monash
University),.Ian Buick and Julie Vry
Metamorphic
Petrology Group, University of Basel, Switzerland
Featuring an
appreciation
of the life and career of Prof. Martin Frey, who lost his life
in a mountain accident in September 2000, and a number of case
studies:
The Llano
Uplift
From Rob's Granite Page © ... "the igneous and metamorphic
heart of Texas".
P-T-time models for the Himalayan slab: a slide show illustrating how the rate and timing of exhumation is deduced from metamorphic thermobarometry and cooling age data.
Nanga
Parbat - mountain uplift and tectonics
A virtual field trip from Rob Butler, Leeds University.
Tutorials, examples, software and on-line P-T calculations.
Generalized Thermobarometry: WEBINVEQ with the TWQ 1.02 data base
Submit the activities of end-members of coexisting minerals, and WEBINVEQ will compute a least-squares estimate of the pressure and temperature of equilibration.
http://ichor.geo.ucalgary.ca/~tmg/Webinveq/inveq0.htmlGeoff Nichols' Thermobarometry
For high-grade metapelites with Grt-Crd-Spl-Sill/Ky-Qtz, using data from Nichols et al. (1992), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 111: 362-377.
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/geology/geoff/geotherm/html/Practical Aspects of Thermobarometry
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa/pt/pt-start.html
My own on-line tutorial, aimed at beginning graduate students. Uses Holland and Powell's THERMOCALC program and data set.Software for Thermobarometric calculations
See the compilation (last mod 2001) by Terry Gordon (University of Calgary)
http://ichor.geo.ucalgary.ca/~tmg/Research/thermo_links.html.
Metamorphic
Petrology Group, University of Basel, Switzerland
Also some on-line posters.
Albany
Microstructures
Analogue modelling of microstructural development (with movies) by
Youngdo Park, Jin-Han Ree & Win Means, at the State University
of New York, Albany (via Monash!)
ELLE
project home page
Numerical modelling of microstructures
Stress,
Strain and Structure
Volume 2 of the Journal of the Virtual Explorer, contains 19
contributions dealing with theory, analogue modelling and field
studies, includes animations and movies.
Tektonophysics
Group at Mainz
Describes active research at Tectonophysics in Mainz by Cees Passchier and
his group, with a publication list, and some figures
from the book Microtectonics.
Structure
and Metamorphism Research at James Cook University
Includes useful bibliography of papers by Bell, Rubenach etc..
Microstructure
and Deformation, University of Basel
Atlas of deformation microstrutures, information on orientation
imaging, and more.
Myrmekite
and Metasomatic Granite
A list of case studies by Lorence G Collins, aiming to
show that certain granite types result from K-metasomatism.
What
determines the size of secondary fluid inclusions?
Summary of a mailing-list discussion posted by Dirk Hellwig,
Marburg.
Research group of Dr J Mullis, Basel, Switzerland (links not functioning correctly, Jan 2004)
US
National Reports to the IUGG 1991-1994
Originally published in Rev. Geophys. Vol. 33 Suppl., © 1995
American Geophysical Union, these reports are available on-line (the
text, anyway). The articles most relevant to petrology are:
Metamorphic Rocks
Good quality large format photomicrographs of a variety of
samples. Other rock types also illustrated at this site, compiled
by J.M. Derochette.
http://www.users.skynet.be/jm-derochette/metamorphic_rocks.htm
See also Course Materials for Metamorphic Petrology, below.
The University of
Oregon microprobe laboratory
has a few images and some useful information about the method.
Bilby
Research Center, Northern Arizona University
James H Wittke: information about the microprobe lab and a course
syllabus.
Oxford
Brookes' University SEM facility
has a few inline images of metamorphic rocks. It has some
explanation of the principles of SEM imaging, a small library of
EDS spectra, and is part of the teaching material for a
geochemistry module.
Also at Brookes is a page of links to other analytical electron microscopy sites
Here is an updated link to the Microbeam Analysis Society.
Geology collection, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton.
Many course outlines are available on the Web. For some links, see those listed by John Butler and Jürgen Kraus. I've selected some which have additional useful materials, such as images or study aids.
University of British Columbia, Geology 202: Introduction to Petrology
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/
A notable on-line petrology resource, at an introductory level.
Most higher-level course materials are now password-protected, and
so cannot be accessed from outside UBC. Some useful components
are:
John Winter - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
John Winter has a set of large Powerpoint presentations based on
the chapters of his text book available for download. Follow the
Petrology link from
http://people.whitman.edu/~winterj/.
Lynn Fichter, James Madison University
On-line, well-illustrated lecture notes, some also available in
PDF format
http://geollab.jmu.edu/Fichter/MetaRx/
Metamorphic Petrology Lectures
Six lectures forming part of a general petrology course by Professor
S.A. Nelson, Tulane University, available in HTML and PDF formats
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212
Atlas of igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals and
textures
Department of Geology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html
Petrography
Humboldt State University Geology Dept. Includes metamorphic minerals
and textures in thin section.
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~jdl1/petrography.page.html
Brock University, Canada,
ERSC
3P21
Year 3 Petrology and Petrography course, notes and thin section
mineral atlas by Greg Finn.
Here is a page with petrological teaching links:
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