Geology

About this course

Geology is the science of the Earth's materials, structures, and processes across deep time. It investigates how rocks and minerals form, how continents move, how mountains are built and eroded, how oceans open and close, and how the interplay between the solid Earth, the oceans, the atmosphere, and living organisms has shaped the planet we inhabit. Because geology operates on timescales of millions to billions of years, it requires a particular kind of scientific imagination, the ability to read landscape and rock as a record of processes that no human being has ever directly observed. The discipline draws on chemistry, physics, and biology, making it genuinely integrative, and its applications range from resource extraction and hazard assessment to climate science and environmental management. Studied part-time at Birkbeck College in London, this BSc allows you to develop serious geol

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