Over the years, I’ve developed a lot of helpful little tools for myself that I use in my experimental petrology research. Mostly in the form of excel spreadsheets, VisualBasic macros, and gathered up bits of the literature, I feel that some one else out there may benefit from the tools I’ve created in their own research or possibly petrology homework. So, in the interest of open-sourceness, I’ve started a new section of my website called “Tools for Petrologists“.
None of the stuff on there is original research per se. It’s merely a collection of tools I’ve made for doing common petrological calculations. Eventually, I hope to add some of my so-called “Unfinished Lists”, which are gathered up bits of the literature. In any event, I hope it can be of use to others!
I’ve also linked to some spreadsheets, software programs, and model calculations made by others that I use a lot in my research. If you know of any other good tools out there, please write me and let me know so that I can add them to the list.
Gordon Moore
March 25, 2012
Hi Kayla,
You should put the refs for the equations that are used in your spreadsheets. Makes it more useful and avoids looking like you did all the work determining the dependence of ferric ferrous and fO2, for example. Just a suggestion. Otherwise, great idea.