GEOLOGY 212

PETROLOGY

Prof. Stephen A. Nelson

This course has been replaced by EENS 212  - Petrology

Please see the new web page at www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212

Note that most links below now redirect to similar pages in new courses.

Spring 2003  
 

Professor  Stephen A. Nelson
Send e-mail to Prof. Nelson -  snelson@tulane.edu

 

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Lecture Notes

Note:  Two versions of each set of lecture notes are shown in the table below.  The first is in html format, optimized for viewing on the Web at screen resolutions greater than 800x600.  You can print this version directly from your Web browser, but there is no guarantee that the pages will break where they are supposed to, since each person's browser can be set up differently (margins, fonts, font sizes, etc.). 

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Note: Only Links with a red asterisk (*) have been updated for the Spring 2003 semester. 

Textures and Structures of Igneous Rocks*

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General Classification of Igneous Rocks*

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Simple 1 and 2 Component Phase Diagrams*

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Ternary Phase Diagrams*

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The Interior of Earth and Formation of Magmas*

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Magmatic Differentiation*

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Igneous Rocks of the Oceanic Lithosphere*

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Igneous Rocks of Convergent Margins*

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Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere*

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Types of Metamorphism*

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Metamorphic Rock Textures*

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Triangular Plots in Metamorphic Petrology*

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Metamorphic Mineral Assemblages*

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Thermodynamics and Metamorphic Mineral Assemblages*

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Metamorphic Reactions*

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Contact Metamorphism*

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Regional Metamorphism*

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Radiometric Age Dating*

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Links to Petrology Web Sites of Interest

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