photomicrograph: borosilicates - werdingite and grandidierite

Rare borosilicates from Namaqualand, S. Africa: an intergrowth of blue grandidierite and dark spinel, 1mm across, invades pale yellow werdingite.

photomicrograph: coesite in garnet

A small remnant of coesite, a high-pressure polymorph of silica, enclosed in garnet from western Norway. Field of view 0.25mm. (Photo by Alice Wain)

Dave Waters - Teaching materials

This is the index of materials related to my taught courses and tutorials. Current course materials are held on WebLearn, the University's central Virtual Learning Environment, and are accessible from anywhere by using an Oxford University username and password. Visitors have limited access to some areas of WebLearn. Older materials are held on the Earth Sciences Teaching Network server, and much of this material is restricted to the Oxford domain. Those that are freely accessible are indicated below.
See also:

Earth Sciences Teaching Network
Home page of the Teaching Network's web site.

WebLearn Earth Sciences
The undergraduate teaching space on WebLearn.

OxTALENT
Oxford University's advisory group on the use of new technology in teaching

Course materials on WebLearn:

First Year Introduction to Geological Maps, Michaelmas Term
First Year Introduction to Metamorphic Rocks, Trinity Term
First Year Geological Data Analysis, Trinity Term
Second Year Metamorphic Petrology, Hilary Term
Second Year Geological Maps, Hilary Term
Third year Petrogenesis: Metamorphism and Mountain Belts, Michaelmas Term
Third Year Methods in Mineralogy, Hilary Term
Third Year Introduction to Ore-forming Processes (lectures on Crustal Evolution - Framework for Ore Deposits through Time)

Course materials on Teachserv:

First Year Introduction to Metamorphic Rocks, Trinity Term. Unrestricted access - visitors welcome
Second Year Metamorphic Petrology, Hilary Term
Third Year Methods in Mineralogy, Hilary Term

Field Course Materials

First Year NW Scotland Field Course

Past Courses

Third Year Microstructures of Ductile Deformation (Michaelmas 1999)
Third Year Continental Tectonics (Precambrian Tectonics: the Making of the Continents, 2001)
Fourth year Petrological Processes (2000-2001)
Field course: Cornwall Field Course (1998-2001)

Tutorials

Tutorials on WebLearn

Tutorials on Teachserv