Dear All,
Apologies for multiple listings and for potential nuisance e-mail. I have
just finished putting all of the illustrations for my recent text: An
Intoduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (2001, Prentice Hall ISBN
0-13-240342-0) onto my web page (see url below and navigate to my Petrology
Class area). I hated the prospect of making and using a new set of
xerox-transperancies for my lectures, and still had the original Illustrator
files, so I converted all of my figures to COLOR images in MS Powerpoint
format. I am making them available to anyone who wants them, whether or not
you adopt my text. I hope that some of you might find this format useful in
your classes. Due to the proclivities of the Fair Use Law in the USA, I can
make the presentations that I use in my classes available without copyright
hassles because they are non-profit and strictly pedagogical. All you have
to do is click on the powerpoint file for the chapter that you want. Once
downloaded you can save and modify the source to suit your own lecture
format. I only ask that you retain the references to the original sources.
If you use any figures for a commercial purpose, you will naturally have to
get copyright permission.
Before you visit the site you should be aware of potential drawbacks:
1. You must have a recent version of Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator, plus Powerpoint on your machine in order to view the files. The
more colors the better (256 looks terrible)
2. Regrettably, the presentations are a bit cluttered with my own lecture
notes. Although these may be helpful to some, others can readily delete all
these and save only the images they like.
3. Because of the graphics some files are pretty large, and may take some
time to download - beware if you have a slow internet connection
4. I had to create separate files for each chapter, so you may have as many
as 32 downloads if you want them all. Otherwise the combined file would be
huge.
You may also be interested in a similar set of files for Mineralogy, having
color images of crystal structures etc. Just go to the Mineralogy Class
area. Regards to all. John
Dr. John D Winter
Department of Geology
Whitman College
345 Boyer Ave
Walla Walla, WA 99362 USA
(509) 527-5113
Fax: (509) 527-5904
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web page: http://people.whitman.edu/~winterj/
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