Igneous+&+Metamorphic+Petrology


 *  Oh the mountains, what a beautiful scene, **
 *  And basaltic lava with olivine! **
 *  Granite, slate and diamonds galore, **
 *  Volcanoes and earthquakes, plus so much more! **
 *  Everywhere we look the earth just sings, **
 *  And petrology can answer all these things. **
 * Subduction of plates leads to grinding of rock, **
 * making earthquakes and faults, and aftershock. **
 * Fractionation allows crystals to sink, **
 * but phase diagrams are, just to hard to think. **
 * "Well what about trace elements", you just might ask. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> But to calculate these is quite a task. **

By Emily Simmons
Welcome to the University of Miami's Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology class (2010). This page serves to educate the 2010 class, as well as future petrology classes on specific geologic samples that represent different regions and tectonic environments around the world. The regions represented this year are....

Newfoundland, Canada Death Valley, CA Juan de Fuca Ridge, WA Maui, HI San Carlos, AZ Gaspe Peninsula, Canada