Study Aids

Concept Maps

• What is a Concept Map?
• How to Make a Concept Map
• Physical Properties of Minerals
• Rock-forming Minerals
• Economic Uses of Minerals

Plate Tectonic Settings

• Plate Tectonic Summary
• Mid-Ocean Ridge divergent margins
• Continental Rift divergent margins
• Ocean-Ocean convergent margins
• Ocean-Continent convergent margins
• Continent-Continent convergent margins
• Transform margins
• Oceanic Hotspots

Geologic Time

• GeoWhen Database, with Stages
  From The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). The GeoWhen project aims to reconcile the international stratigraphic standards with many of the regional and archaic naming schemes that appear in the literature.

• Geologic Time Pie
  From Levin (1999)
• Precambrian time divisions
  From Levin (1999)

• Detailed DNAG timescale
  From Geologic Society of America
• Interactive Timescale #1
  From EnchantedLearning.com
• Interactive Timescale #2
  From UC-Berkeley

Igneous Rock Classification

• Table of Igneous Rock Classification

Volcanism Review Table

• VolcanoReview_2004.pdf

Sedimentary Rock Classification

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Sedimentary Depositional Environments

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Metamorphic Rock Classification

• MMrkID1.jpg