Instructor: Glen S. Mattioli
Teaching Assistant: Drew Lonigro
Lecture Text: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Myron G. Best
Laboratory Text: Various handouts
Class Annoucements
GEOL3313 homework assignment 1 is due in class Monday, January 28, 2008
GEOL3313 homework assignment 2 is due in class Monday, February 4, 2008
GEOL3313 homework assignment 3 is due in class Wednesday, February 13, 2008
GEOL3313 homework assignment 4 is due in class Monday, February 25, 2008
GEOL3313 St. Francois Mtns. Field Trip report is due in class Monday, April 14, 2008
GEOL3313 homework assignment 5 is due in class Friday, April 18, 2008
GEOL3313 homework assignment 6 is due in class Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Please find homework assigments below.
Midterm is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Field Trip is scheduled for Friday, April 4 to Sunday, April 6, 2008
Final Examination is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 10:00AM to 12:00PM
PowerPoint Presentations
Lecture 1: Introduction to Earth Structure and Principles of Petrology
Lecture 2: Igneous Rock Classifications
Lecture 3: Rock Types, Silica and Alumina Saturation, Basalt Tetrahedron
Lecture 4: Trace Elements and Isotopic Systematics
Lecture 5: Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Lecture 6: Volatiles in Magmatic Systems
Lecture 7: The Phase Rule and Simple Binary Phase Diagrams
Lecture 8: Ternary Phase Diagrams and Granite Systematics
Lecture 9: Earth Structure and Constraits on Mantle Phase Transitions (pdf)
Lecture 9b: Upper Mantle Structure and Composition: Ophiolites and Ridge Crests (new)
Lecture 10: Mantle Chemistry, Melt Generation, and Trace Elements (revised)
Lecture 11: Primary melts and MORBs (pdf)
Lecture 12: Island and Continental Arc Magmatism (pdf)
Lecture 13: Introduction to Metamorphism Rocks and Processes
Lecture 14: Metamorphic, Terranes, Facies, and Reactions
Laboratory Handouts and Assignments
Lab 1: Mineralogy Review and Study Guide
Lab 3: Visual Estimates of Modes, Ig. Rock Classifications, Plotting
Lab 4a: Distinguishing Characteristics of Common Minerals
Lab 4b: Ultramafic Thinsections
Lab 5: Mafic (Basalts) Thinsections
Lab 6: Feldspar Twinning Review
Lab 8: Syenite-Trachyite Thinsections
Lab 9: Monzonite-Latite Thinsections
Lab 10: Extrusive: Granite-Rhyolite Thinsections
Lab 11: Intrusive: Granite-Rhyolite Thinsections
Lab 12: Metamorphic Thinsections – I
Lab 13: Metamorphic Thinsections – II
Thinsection Photomicrograph Archive
Part 1: Thinsection Database (Igneous Rocks 1-20 & Metamorphic Rocks)
Part 2: Thinsection Database (Igneous Rocks 21-43)
Study Guides and Home Work Assignments
Homework 1: Mantle Temperatures and Pressures
Homework 2: Earth’s Heat Budget and Radiogenic Heat Production
Homework 3a: Calculation of the CIPW Norm – Data
Homework 3b: Calculation of CIPW Norm – Instructions
Homework 4: Radiogenic Isotope Systematics and Age Dating
Midterm Examination Study Guide
Homework 5: REE partioning in mantle-derived melts
Homework 6: REE in the residual mantle and two-stage melting
External Links and Web Resources for Petrology
Links for Mineralogists, University of Würzburg, Institute of Mineralogy
Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Textures, UNC, Chapel Hill
How to Describe an Igneous Rock Lab, University of Aberdeen
David Hirsch’s Portal for Mineralogy & Petrology Links, Western Washington University
Jeff Ryan’s Rocks Under a Microscope Web Tutorial, University of South Florida
John Longshore’s Photomicrographs of Hard Rocks and Minerals, Humbolt State University
Ken Hon’s Portal to Virtual Mineralogy Resources on the Web, U. Hawaii, Hilo
Mark Ghiorso’s MELTS Home Page, University of Washington
Volcanology Links
World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO)
Montserrat Volcano Observatory