| http://www.odp.usyd.edu.au/Clarke04/Hyperpetmag/WELCOME.htm | Superb! Geoffrey Clarke's microscopy pages for igneous mineralogy - inc. excellent tests and quizzes. |
| http://www.odp.usyd.edu.au/Clarke04/Hyperpetmet/WELCOME.HTM | Fantastic! Geoffrey Clarke's microscopy pages for metamorphic mineralogy - inc. excellent tests and quizzes. |
| http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/opmin/mins.html | a simple but quite good treatment of some aspects of optics |
| http://mineral.gly.bris.ac.uk/Mineralogy/minIIhome.html | more advanced - a lot of good stuff. |
| http://met.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html | the Open University's virtual microscope pages. Mainly an advert for theexcellent CD-ROM. |
| http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html | a good starting point - plenty of other links |
| http://www.uidaho.edu/~mgunter/geol249/geol249.html | a mixture of stuff |
| http://www.brocku.ca/earthsciences/people/gfinn/optical/222lect.htm | another advanced but very good mineralogy/optics course |
| http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/minerals/minerals.html | Excellent atlas of minerals under the microscope. |
Some freely downloadable mineralogy and other geological software.. (there are lots more of these….)
| http://www.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/soft.html | starting point for various bits of geological software for download |
| http://www.geol.uni-erlangen.de/html/software/winsoft.html | inlcudes Polmic - a PC-based mineral identification program for mineralsin TS. |
John Faithfull November 2004