Most of these handouts, unless otherwise indicated, take somewhere between 20 minutes and 1 hour to complete in small groups, with the instructor circulating to answer questions.
Many of the handouts rely heavily on material from Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, as well as thermodynamics handouts from John Winter's website: http://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/. The REE diagram handout uses a figure from Henderson (1982) Inorganic Geochemistry. The melt viscosity exercise is based on a paper by Baker et al., 2004, Journal of Geoscience Education, 52, 363-367.
Physical Properties
Food viscosities as analogs for melt viscosities
Heat loss: diffusion equations
Thermodynamics
SiO2 polymorphs: P-T space and the phase rule
SiO2 polymorphs: Clapeyron Equation
Olivine: Isobaric Phase Rule, Lever Rule, Crystallization
Olivine: Equilibrium and Fractional Melting
Diopside-Anorthite: Lever Rule, Discontinuous Reactions, Eutectic
Di-An-Fo Ternary: Crystallization and Melting (this one is ~2 hours)
Immiscible Liquids on a Ternary: Carbonatite Formation
Geochemistry
Bulk partition coefficient diagrams
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