Rocks and Minerals

Minerals

• *** Amethyst Galleries Inc. Contains searchable mineralogical data, plus other information of interest.
• ** Athena: Mineralogy, systematic classification of minerals and other links. Maintained by Pierre Perroud.
• Crystallography sites:
  • Crystallography and mineralogy A great site for the "spacially challenges." Student can rotate shapes and visualize symmetry. Indiana University Molecular Structure Center
  • Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems, Written by Mike Howard - Illustrated by Darcy Howard
• ***Gemology and Lapidary Pages: a comprehensive introduction to gemology and lapidary arts. Includes and excellent gem database replete with good-quality pictures.
• Silicate Chemistry
• Friends of Mineralogy.
  
• *** Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom An interactive guide to Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones
• *** Minerals in Thin Section University of British Columbia.
• Minerals under the Microscope Great introduction to optical mineralogy. Created by Charlotte Gladstone
• Mineralogy Database Maintained by David Barthelmy.
• Mineralolgy databases
• *** USGS Mineral Resource Program
• *** The Image Site "dedicated to high quality video imaging and scanning, with an emphasis on minerals, gemstones, microscopy, and tutorials.
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• Mineral structures database 3-D drawings of crystal structures. Created by Joe Smyth, University of Colorado.
• Online courses and lecture notes:
  • Principals of Mineralogy, University of Wisconsin
  • Mineralogy Lecture notes online Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format(pdf) required. Educational site: http:/ / www.science.smith.edu/ geology/ Mineralogy/ Lecture_Notes.html
  • Geology 311: An Introductory Course on Mineralogy - Taught by Jack Rice at the University of Oregon. Good information; check out the lecture notes.
  • Optical Mineralogy by Greg Finn, Brock University

  Software

  • Crystallography software
  • Mineral Services geoscience software
  • PoleMic: Free software (Windows 95) for the identification of minerals in thin section
  • Erlangen public domain software collection for Geology and Mineralogy

•  ***Robs Granite Page: Thorough site devoted to granite; granite research, introduction to batholiths, granitic massifs, commercial granite quarrying (including a link to the Cape Ann Quarries), and more. Even includes a few mafic rock sites. Maintained by Robert Reed, Structural Geology Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Geol. Sci, Univ. of Texas at Austin
• The very-low-grade metamorphism WWW-server
• Geological Phase diagrams
• *** The Skarn Web Page
• University Courses and Lecture Notes
  • **Introduction to Petrology--University of British Columbia
    • Optical Mineralogy Module

  Virtual Microscopes:

  • ***Open University's Virtual microscope (multimedia) Rotate a rock sample while viewing it in plane polarized and cross polarized light simultaneously!
    
  • *** Hardrock Geology Homepage. Contains nearly 200 photomicrographs of rocks and rock forming minerals. Maintained by John Longshore, Humbolt State University, Geology Dept
  • *** Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals, and textures Virtual Geology Project, University of North Carolina
    • Microtextures of metamorphic rocks
  • ** Kurt Hollocher's Thin Section Gallery

  Software

  • Petroglyph (PPC-Mac and Windows95) "Interactive program designed to simulate a petrographic microscope...designed as an educational tool for use by petrology students."

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