This set of lecture notes covers several topics relating to the earth's interior. Seismic waves and the earth's internal structure are discussed. Several mechanisms for the origin of magma are offered. These lecture notes are in outline form with definitions and instructive diagrams. This resource is part of the Teaching Petrology collection. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology03/index.html Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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This site describes where volcanoes are found in terms of plate tectonics and explains why they occu...
This page contains study questions related to volcanic processes. There are 10 questions on concepts...
This activity focuses on indirect evidence, based on earthquake waves, for the internal structure of...
These lecture notes provide information on magma production, types of igneous rocks, and volcanic pr...
This PowerPoint presentation is part of the Whitman College petrology course. The presentation provi...
These lecture notes provide an introduction to igneous rocks. The notes cover information about char...
This website contains class notes from a Geology 101 (physical geology) course. It discusses the com...
These lecture notes present a discussion of mineralogical classification of granitic rocks, definiti...
This United States Geological Survey (USGS) publication discusses the interior of the Earth, includi...
This set of lecture notes covers a number of topics including magmatic differentiation, chemical var...
These lecture notes introduce magmatism and petrology as they relate to the oceanic lithosphere. The...
This lesson discusses the interior structure of the earth as defined by research on the behavior of ...
This resource identifies the sources of the Earth's internal heat energy as extraterrestrial impacts...
Since this course is about how Earth processes can adversely affect us as human beings, we need to f...
This site is the homepage for an introductory petrology class. It contains notes and self-directed e...
This site describes where volcanoes are found in terms of plate tectonics and explains why they occu...
This page contains study questions related to volcanic processes. There are 10 questions on concepts...
This activity focuses on indirect evidence, based on earthquake waves, for the internal structure of...