Earth Sciences Course Outline

First Year

  • Planet Earth
  • Fundamentals of Geology I
    • Crystals and Minerals
    • Minerals and Rocks
  • Fundamentals of Geology II
    • Geological Maps
    • Invertebrate Palaeobiology
  • Physics, Chemistry and Biology
  • Mathematics
    • Mathematics for Materials and Earth Sciences

Second Year

  • Fundamentals of Geology
    • Sedimentary Petrology
    • Structural Geology (with geological maps as practicals)
    • Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
    • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
    • Geological Map
    • Geophysical Methods in Geology
  • Topics in Earth Sciences
    • Volcanoes and the Environment
    • Fundamentals of Geophysics
    • High Temperature Geochemistry and Earth Structure
    • Quantitative Reasoning in the Earth Sciences
    • Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
    • Stable Isotope Geochemistry
    • Decoding the Fossil Record
    • Remote Sensing and Active Tectonics

Third Year

  • Geoscience Applications
  • Climate System - Oceans & Atmosphere 
  • Solid Earth - Earthquakes, Volcanoes 
  • Geological Processes
  • Palaeobiology - Ecosystems & Evolution
  • Computational Earth

Fourth Year

  • Environmental, Rock & Palaeo-magnetism
  • Planetary Chemistry
  • Seismology
  • Records of Major Environmental Change in Earth History
  • Topics in Volcanology
  • Anatomy of a Mountain Belt
  • Palaeobiology: Fossil Controversies
  • Patterns and Processes in Pleistocene Climate