Links for Mineralogists: Table of Contents
| Ternary Diagrams Thermo- and Geobarometry Mineralogical and Geoscience Software Geostatistics |
Microscopy Photography The Spindle Stage Inevitably for all purposes: Search Engines |
Binary Diagrams
G. Finn, Brock University: Binary Phase
Diagrams. To determine compositions of phases and the relative proportions of phases
to each other in binary diagrams the LEVER RULE is used.
Information about ternary plotting
Geology202, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Ternary Diagrams. Explanations with exercises.
G. Finn, Brock University: Ternary Phase Diagrams, General Rules.
Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Leuven: Chapter
5: Thermodynamics. Very interesting points are "5.2 The calculation of phase
diagrams" and "5.3 Software development"
Downloadable Ternary Plot Programs (shareware)
Steve J. Baedke and Todd A. Thompson, Indiana: Triplot for Windows. An interactive plotting program that eases the burden of constructing and plotting trilinear, or ternary diagrams.
Daryl Clarke´s New Pet Software: triplot2. The ternary plotting prog by Baedke and Thompson.
Rechenzentrum der Universität Würzburg (ftp-server): triplt22.zip. Plot ternary diagrams using HP-GL/2 commands. Mirrored from SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository.
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa: Ternplot: an Excel spreadsheet for
Ternary Diagrams. The minimum hardware and software requirements are an IBM PC or
compatible with Windows and Excel 4.0 (or 5.0). The program is available from the anonymus
ftp site iamg. org.
Ternary plotting programs for sale
DeltaGraph 4.0 for Windows Fact
Sheet
PAZ Software / Pierre A. Zippi
Index of Thermo- and Geobarometry Programs
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary: Software and Data for Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibrium Calculations in Geology. This superb web page includes programs about igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology, aqueous geochemistry, commercial sites, web directories and programming tools.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge: Software written by members of the Department of Earth Sciences. Most programs written by Tim Holland.
Christian de Capitani, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Basel: Thermodynamic Modeling. Including software development for phase diagram calculations. (Theriak, Domino etc.), experimental and theoretical investigations of melts and the encyclopedia of thermodynamics. See the General Index (biography data).
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago: Thermodynamics Research Laboratory. Focus areas are analytic statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, e.g. asymmetric and micro/macromolecular mixtures, associating fluids and molecular aggregation kinetics, equations of state, analytic fluctuation theory, heavy fractions characterization, phase transitions modeling, radial distribution functions, variational and perturbation theories, etc. Visit the Classical & Statistical Thermodynamics & Mechanics Educational Sites, the Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites, and Related or Interesting Web Sites to Visit.
Matthias Gottschalk, Experimental Petrology and Geochemistry, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ): Internally consistent dataset for rock-forming minerals. The data set presented here has been published by M. Gottschalk (1997) in European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 175-223. A downloadable file of thermophysical datas ( conset) is available (Excel spreadsheet).
Dave Waters, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Tools and accessories. See
also Dave Water´s Private Homepage.
Thermo- and Geobarometry Programs
Peter Appel, Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut und Museum University of Kiel: Software for Petrology. Downloadable programs are: ThermoBaro1.01 - Macintosh software for the calculation of temperatures and pressures of metamorphic equilibration from the mineral compositions. CalcFormula - A DOS program to calculate mineral formulas from microprobe analyses. MinMacro - A Microsoft Excel international macro for the calculation of mineral formulas and end member compositions of various minerals that include a matrix method for the determination of 9 pyroxene endmembers.
C. de Capitani, Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut Universität Basel: THERIAK. A program collection to calculate equilibrium assemblages and equilibrium phase diagrams.
Jamie Connolly, Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Zürich: PERPLEX. A collection of fortran programs for calculating and displaying petrologic phase equilibria.
Mark Stefan Ghiorso, University of Washington, Seattle and Richard Olmsted Sack, Purdue University, West Lafayette: MELTS. MELTS is a software package for modeling crystallization of magmatic systems. The MELTS manual can be accessed via Copenhagen.
G. Godard, C. Chat, Laboratoire de Petrologie Metamorphique, Universite de Paris: PETROCALC Required Hardware. APPLE MACINSTOSH running at least system 6, with 2Mbytes RAM. Language of Program and Documentation in French.
Terry Gordon, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary: Generalized Thermobarometry. WEBINVEQ with the TWQ1.02 database. WEBINVEQ solves the inverse chemical equilibrium problem, i.e. given the activities of end-members of coexisting minerals, the program computes a least-squares estimate of the pressure and temperature of equilibration of the minerals. INVEQ Concepts [45 kbytes] contains a simplified explanation of this approach.
Roger Powell and Tim Holland: THERMOCALC. At present this site is under construction (unfortunately).
Frank Spear, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA: Program Gibbs. GIBBS is a general algorithm to perform Gibbs method calculations. The program (for Macintosh)is designed for drawing a P-T univariant curve, contouring P-T space with mineral composition and abundance, calculating a P-T path from a zoned garnet, and for modeling the metamorphism of a pelitic schist along a prescribed P-T path.
For Macintosh: ftp://harold.geo.rpi.edu/pub/spear/
Frank Spear´s programs for P-T-t, thermobarometry, diffusion, heat flow modelling,
amphibole site occupancy calculations, and more.
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Geo-Software Indexes
Access to special geosoftware programs
Download with Archie
Software of all topics
Software Notices. American Mineralogist provides postings of software that are made available to the mineralogic and petrologic community.
Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium: Mineralogy Software. Annotated index to some mineralogy, gemmology and crystallography software and database.
ATHENA, University of Geneva: Scientific Shareware. Briefly annotated list.
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas, Austin: Geoscience and Engineering Software. A collection of software related to various Geoscience and Engineering fields. Access to Computer Oriented Geological Society, Cornell University, Geology Department, GSLIB, Int. Association of Math. Geologists, U.S. Department of Energy codes, U.S. Geological Survey codes.
S. Baum,Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University: Software for Graphics and Data Analysis.
Bob´s Rock Shop: Software for Rockhounds. Web page provides a mineral database and identification software and compression software.
Virtual Library (from Calgary): Earth Sciences Resources: Software. Uncommented Meta-Index.
Technical University of Clausthal, Institute of Geology and Paleontology: "Workshop Geosoftware" at EISES.
COGS: The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS) acts as a clearinghouse for information about methodologies, software and datasets and conveys information of interest to all geological disciplines, via FTP file server or mail-order distribution of software.
Josip Crnicki: MyTopLink. GEOLOGY - SOFTWARE
EJGE Magazine, World Wide Web of Geotechnical Engineers: Geotechnical Software Resources on the Net
Institut für Geologie, Erlangen: Geological Software. Windows, Dos, Mac and Unix software has been assorted and commented, including Dana App, a mineral reference for Windows, and programs for X-ray mineralogy.
Geoweb: WWW online resources for Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), & Remote Sensing (RS) Industries. Welcome to GeoJava Corner. Java applications in geo science/technology.
Göttingen, IGDL: Gopher. Including ANTEXXDD=X-ray-Texture-Analysis, CrystalView, IDEE=Illit-crystallinity-determination, NewPet=Geochemical-data-handling-package, PetroCalc, Schmidt-Netz, StereoNet, etc.
Geochemical Institute Göttingen: Useful binaries. Simple calculation programs, e.g. petmixxl.zip, petmixex.zip, xchange.zip, cipwcalc.zip, molm.zip, afc.traces.zip, afc.isotopes.zip, and databases like isofrac.zip, a compilation of oxygen and hydrogen isotope fractionation factors, or a global database of available oxygen (n=2855!) and corresponding radiogenic isotope data found in the literature.
Rod Holcombe, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland: Mapping/GIS Software Development Group. This site contains Windows-based geological field database, mapping, and GIS (Mapinfo) software, and structural geology software (stereographic projections/rose diagrams).
Info mine: Software mine. Includes mining & geology software mailing lists, a suppliers directory in earth sciences, papers on mining software career opportunities in computing/software in mining, and Mining Software News and Newsletters
Geology Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: GEOLOGY SOFTWARE AND COOL PICKIES FOR YOUR DESKTOP
Universität Karlsruhe: Software-Index. An extensive software catalogous, sorted by subject, with explanations (in German).
University of Michigan, Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory & The Microbeam Analysis Society: Microscopy & Micoanalysis Software Library. (ftp).
MinServ (Geoscience Software), Wantirna, Australia.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): The Software Support Laboratory, ftp access ftp://sslab.colorado.edu. The Software Support Laboratory archives and distributes software - and information about software - for space and Earth scientists.
Dept. of Geosciences, North Dakota State University: Links to computer programs applicable to solving geologic problems. Very useful, partly annotated.
Bill Thon and Ted Smith, Online Resources for Earth Scientists (ORES): Geology: Mineralogy and Mining Data Sets and Software. Pretty commented list.
Oxford University Libraries Automation Service World Wide Web Server. Using the Web for Geoscience Resources: Part 2: Software and Software Sites. A well organized and annotated index for Geo-Scientists. Very useful!
Yvan Pannatier, University of Lausanne (Switzerland): Geostatistical Software for the PC. This site presents Microsoft Windows and DOS software which have been found useful for teaching spatial data analysis and geostatistic.
SinCris: Software section. Database of software for all fields in crystallography.
The Soft Earth: Part 2 - Software and Software Sites. One of the most comprehensive indexes of annotated Geoscience Software. The Soft Earth is mirrored weekly at Mikael Niklasson´s page in Sweden.
Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data (SAND): Geostatistics, and Software. The SAND group at the Norwegian Computing Center try to keep a list of interesting links to sites relevant for geostatistics and a list of available software.
Stefan Steinhaus, University of Frankfurt: The Scientific Web. Scientific Web presents an index of scientific programs in chemistry, mathematics, statistics, optimization, data acquisitions and others including detailed product information, addresses of producers and distributors, product announcements, links to other Internet addresses, usergroups, etc.
TerraWare. Geo(Science) & Technical Software, Den Haag. The Netherlands.
Dave Waters, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Geological Software. An
annotated bookmark list.
Access to special geosoftware programs
Tim Allen, Geology Dept., Keene State College, Keene: Outcrop Modal Analysis, a Petrographic Application of Digital Image Processing Technology.
Crystal Structure Design AS, Skedsmokorset, Norway: CrystalDesigner CrystalDesigner is a computer program for building, studying and visualising all kinds of crystal structures. CrystalDesigner runs under Macintosh Operating System.
M. Walters, Truro, Cornwall, UK: Stereographic Projections. This is a Windows 95 (32 bit) Multi Document Interface (MDI) application, capable of holding 24,000 data points in upto 20 specifically designed data sheets. Demo version available.
Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: Petroglyph. The downloadable demonstration version of Petroglyph contains a thin section of an amphibolite. Petroglyph is authorware, eventually it will contain thirty thin sections of various rock types.
Geosystems (a company located at Løkken Verk in central Norway): Download GEOLIB 2.0, English version, by clicking here (3.71 MB) GEOLIB is a mineral database application (shareware).
See also: Thermo- and Geobarometry Programs
Download with Archie
Archie Services, (a public service provided by Nexor, University of Nottingham): Archie Plex Form via Würzburg or Darmstadt or SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network. Archie gateways to the web, to search and locate files on anonymus ftp servers.
Akademische Software Kooperation ASK, Karlsruhe: ASK-SINA. Provides posibilities for searching in Anonymous-FTP-Server lists. Focused on Germany (in German).
SISY, the Software Informations SYstem of the ASK (University of Karlsruhe): Software database This database
contains detailed descriptions of software for academic usage including teaching, learning
and research. Currently there are about 4250 software descriptions (in German).
Software of all topics
Multi-Indexes
Stefan Steinhaus, University of Frankfurt: Scientific Web presents an
index of scientific software programs chiefly for chemistry, mathematics and statistics
(in German).
Fachhochschule Ostfriesland, Emden: Software
Archiv. Downloadable scientific software (Annotations in German).
LookSmart: Computers & the Internet, Software Downloads, Archives: Windows-only Archives, or
more generally: Archives.
With annotations.
Lycos.de, Wow, Computer & Internet: Download. In German.
The ShareWare Resource Page
Shareware Search Engines
WORKsmart Oregon State Library´s Web site, Oregon state government: Software Resources.
Civil Engineering Department, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: Virtual Software Library (VSL) A
powerful tool available for shareware and freeware searching on the Internet.
Software Review
Forrest H. Stroud: Stroud´s consummate winsock
applications (CWS). The CWSApps List is designed to be a one-stop shopping site for
the latest and greatest software on the Internet. Freely available file listings, ratings,
and extensive reviews for the hottest Windows 3.x/95/NT applications are just a few of the
many goodies to be found on this site.
Sandro Malinowski, Berlin: Top Shareware. A ranking of sources (in German).
CEUS Top 10 Charts (in German).
Windows, annotated
Dan´s World. Windows 95 programs.
desktopPublishing.com: Windows
95.com
Roland Sander: Winsock-
und Win95-Software. With German annotations.
Sawin Family: Windows 95 Must
Haves!
Jan Schumacher, Möhnesee: Win95Site.de
The Windows Utility Report.
Software programs briefly described.
Windows95.com With annotated Steve Jenkins "WINner" Awards.
Xiaomu Niu´s Internet
Application Collection for Windows
Windows, without comments
CICA Archives: Windows
Software. Here are some excellent sources of software for Microsoft Windows (version
3.x or higher). Browse WinSite
Win95 Archives
California State University, San Marcos Library Technical Services: Windows Shareware Archive
Microsoft: or ftp. Windows shareware (updates, patches, etc.).
Mirrored from Karlsruhe.
SimTel: MS-Windows Collection.
Other Sources
CNET´s download.com
A daily updated service offers the most popular, newest, and best software for free.
Gamelan
InterNIC Directory of Directories: Software
Repositories. The sites listed in this page store public domain software in source,
object or load module format.
Jumbo. Almost 60 000 free- and shareware
programs.
Link Everything Online: LEO.
One of the most important shareware archives in Germany.
Fachhochschule Niederrhein, Mönchengladbach: FTP Server. Programs listed by topic
and partially described (in German).
No Nags. Rewarding for editors and multimedia
tools.
Rainer Petschick, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut J.W.Goethe University of
Frankfurt: Assorted
Macintosh software, and some more links relevant for geoscientists.
PC PRAXIS. With German program description.
Very useful!
Shareware Central Interactive Catalog.
With program descriptions.
Shareware Library
SoftGuide. A sorted selection of resources
(in German).
Software Library. Sorted and briefly
reviewed free- and shareware programs.
TUCOWS(mainly
internet-software)
The Virtual Software Library, mirrored from Imperial
College,UK.
YAHOO. Computers and Internet:Software: Shareware.
ZD Net Software Library. More than
10 000 downloadable programs.
Centre de Géostatistique, Ecole des Mines de Paris: Fields of application of geostatistics. Brief definitions.
Clay Helberg, Chicago: Statistics on the Web. A list of statistics resources discovered on the World Wide Web.
Department of Earth Sciences, University Lausanne: Geostatistical Software for the PC. This site presents Microsoft Windows and DOS software which have been found useful for teaching spatial data analysis and geostatistics.
Syed Abdul Rahman Shibli, AI-GEOSTATS, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia: The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). GEOSTATS stands for geostatistics, an applied statistical discipline for the analysis.
Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data (SAND): Geostatistics. The SAND group at the
Norwegian Computing Center try to keep a list of interesting links to sites relevant for
geostatistics.
Chris Jefferies, Bristol: Microscopes and Microscopy. An extensive index of microscopy sources on the web, listed by geographical locations, organisations, and subject. Very useful! Also available from the Europe server http://www.lars.bbsrc.ac.uk/micro/
University of Idaho: Mickey´s Web Page. Research, teaching, and fun in optical mineralogy.
Thomas E. Jones, "Scientific and Medical Antique Collecting System": History of the Light Microscope.
John F. Mansfield, University of Michigan, Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory & The Department of Materials Science & Engineering: Microscopy Web Sites Around the World, and Microscopy Societies.
Microscopy Online is a free hyper-journal published on the World Wide Web designed specifically for the microscopist. Registration required.
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri: Other Microscopy/Interesting Sites Around the World.
Susanne Pignolet Brandom, MicroWorld Resources and News: An Annotated Guide to On-line Resources for Microscopists and Other Scientists
Wallace Marshall, Laboratory of John Sedat, Structural Biology Group in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF - UC, San Francisco: Links to Microscopy, Computer Vision, and Image Processing Related Web Sites.
YAHOO: Regional:Countries:United Kingdom:Science:Chemistry: Microscopy, and Science:Engineering:Optical Engineering: Microscopy.
Jon Mided: Photo Source. See DARKROOM META-INDEX, a selection of links to help you find just about any photo site on the internet, SHAREWARE & FREEWARE, and TECHNIQUE & DATA SHEET, including features reciprocity data, B/W film info, push processing guidelines, hints and advice.
Philip Greenspun, Switzerland (Project MAC): photo.net, and Black and White Photography Resources, Resource Links.
Bengt Hallinger: Bengt´s Photo Page.
Bruno J. Navarro: World Wide Web Photography Sites. A list of photography and related sites on the World Wide Web.
Michael W. Davidson, Florida State University: An Introduction to Microscopy and Photography Through the Microscope. This page is divided into sections like: How to set up a microscope, photography through the microscope, sample preparation for microscopy, microscopy resources on the web, etc.
Scientific Photography Lab, Chemistry Department, University of Basel.
FOTO-online. This site from Switzerland provides photographical knowledge, formulas, tables and a glossary of photographical terms (in German).
Kodak. Digital Photography.
YAHOO: Products and Services: Magazines:Photography.
Mickey Gunter, Geology, University of Idaho: The Spindle Stage. A lab session for a mineralogy workshop with lab exercises and video demonstrations.
PACROFI VI - Electronic
Program: Alan J Anderson, Department of Geology, St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Canada, (Abstract): A New Oil Immersion Vessel For Optical Spindle Stage
Examination Of Fluid And Solid Inclusions.
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All in One Pages
Recommendable: Parallel Internet Query Engines
Search for Web-Documents
ftp-search
Personal Search Engines
Search Strategies
When you in hurry ...
Take Alta Vista!
Via University of Siegen, Germany: Advanced C.U.S.I. Configurable
Unified Search Engine (in German), or Netguide de,
the German Lycos.
All in One Pages
The Best Search Engines. A list
of currently 71 of the very best search engines.
The Inquirer. Types of
information and searches to find them.
EUROLINK. The Pan European Web
Index.
CMC Information Sources: Excellent
Entries. Search-pages flagged as excellent.
Metasearch
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, Die Düsseldorfer Virtuelle Bibliothek: Internet-Suchinstrumente,
Systematische Gliederungen und Verzeichnisse. With German Annotations.
Beaucoup Search Engines. More than 110
search engines on one page.
Centre Universitaire d´Informatique of the University of Geneva: Collected W3 Search Engines, and Collected CUI Search Engines. Excellent
gateways to search tools.
Lennart Widmark: LW´s Search
Bookmark
YAHOO. Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Searching the Web: All-in-One
Search Pages.
Rice University, Houston, Texas: Internet
Navigation. This is a directory of some of the more useful Internet navigation tools.
All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, but some of the best tools to start with
have been marked with a "recommended" icon.
Recommendable: Parallel Internet Query Engines
Dogpile
Highway61. Includes Yahoo,
AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek, Excite and HotBot
Inference find
The Internet Sleuth. Search engine which
allows you to search up to 10 databases, within categories, simultaneously.
Mamma, or Mamma via Best Search Engine.
MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler Java Beta
Metafind
MetaGer (German pages)
Net Locator
ProFusion
SavvySearch (currently off), or Savvy Search (German
language)
Starting Point - MetaSearch
Search for Web-Documents
Open Text. Search Engine for pages that
contain exact phrases or words, or more successful take the Power Search Engine for
combined search strategies.
ftp-search
Stig Sæther Bakken, Trondheim, Norway: FTP
search v3.3
Personal Search Engines
NetFerret: Download and
install your personal search engine (WIN 95 and NT4). WebFerret supposed to be the fastest
way to find any information on the World Wide Web.
Search Strategies
Alexander Lebedev, Moscow State University: Best search engines for finding scientific information in the Web. The purpose of this document is to get you informed about the most effective search engines which can help you in finding scientific information in the Net.
Jian Liu, Reference Department, IUB Libraries (via Germany): Understanding WWW Search Tools. A tool for easy browsing.
Teaching Library Internet Workshops University of California, Berkeley: Finding Information on the Internet. A tutorial.
Subject Indexes and Search Tools
Search Engine Watch. A great
gateway to the technology and wealth of information about internet indexing.
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