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Chapter 3: Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks

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Chapter 3: Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks

Most of these sites are course pages and photos that university instructors have posted to assist their own students.

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anoncoursepetr.html
John Butler at the University of Houston maintains a list of web pages of igneous petrology courses offered by schools around the country. Many of these course pages contain useful information about igneous rocks and their mode of formation.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Ermr/index.html
Rob's Granite Page at the University of Texas at Austin is a unique web site devoted to graduate student Robert Reed's love of this common intrusive igneous rock.

http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/plutonic-micro%7F/plutonicmicro.html
The Microtextures of Plutonic Rocks page at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill illustrates what some common instrusive igneous rocks look like as thin sections under a polarizing microscope.

http://duke.usask.ca/~reeves/prog/geoe118/geoe118.012.html
The Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan provides several web pages explaining the origin and classification of igneous rocks.

http://www.geo.duke.edu/geo41/rks.htm
Photos of common igneous rocks and their textures are provided on this course homepage from Duke University.

http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/rock_cycle/igneousrx.html
This site provides an igneous rock classification chart courtesy of the University of British Columbia.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Igrocks/Igindex.htmlAn igneous rock slideshow showing several of the most common intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks.

http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol100/cag/slides/igneous/pluoc0.html
Professor C.A. Giovanella at the University of British Columbia maintains a slideshow of plutonic igneous features.

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