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地质 majors explore Earth’s physical, chemical and biological features and evolution 跨越时空. The program draws from all the basic sciences: chemistry, physics 和生物学. It’s known for providing research opportunities as well as classroom 指令.
地质学工作
- Mining and mineral explorer or petroleum explorer
- 工程地质学家
- 环境地质学家
- 水文学家
- Remote sensing and geographic information systems analyst
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History Revealed from ‘Just a Piece of Rock’
地质? “People always think that it’s just rocks,” said 佩奇哈维. “我有 people ask me how much a diamond might be worth. 抱歉，但那不是我的领域. 地质 is more the study of the Earth and the Earth’s processes.”
Harvey came to 南 because she’s from Mobile, she wanted to stay near the beach, “and they offered me a really good scholarship.她的专业是生物学 地质二班. Learning about minerals in Physical 地质 (地质 111) intrigued 她的. Then Earth History (地质 112), which covered Earth’s creation and its ancient climates, hooked 她的 into changing 她的 major.
“It was so cool to me that we could tell a story from millions of years ago just by looking at something that most people wouldn’t think was special,” she said. “就 一块岩石.”
Undergraduates get opportunities to help professors with field research and laboratory 工作. Harvey has collected sediments in the Mobile area. 她在放射学上提供了帮助 date grains of zircon found in ancient sandstone from Appalachian Mountains formations 阿拉巴马州东北部.
“We could tell a story from millions of years ago just by looking at something that most people wouldn’t think was special.”
Zircon crystals are extremely tough minerals that can retain information from their formation over literally billions of years. “Zircons can endure so much, which is why I find them so intriguing,” Harvey said.
Working as a teaching assistant sparked an interest in teaching. 所以她打算 go on to graduate school and see w她的e 她的 interests took 她的.
“One of my professors pushed me to go into academia, which ties my interests in both teaching and research toget她的,” she said. “我对博士学位不太确定.解析:选D hope to continue my studies in graduate school and see w她的e a master’s will take me.”
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- Class sizes are small, which allows faculty to provide individualized attention.
- 地质 majors receive extensive hands-on training through field trips and research opportunities conducted in diverse regions, including in Alabama, Texas and New Mexico.
- 地质 courses take advantage of 南’s proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and some of the world’s most spectacular modern depositional environments, including Dauphin Island, the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Mobile Bay.
联系:
星期四奥尔森
地质学讲师
地球科学系
(251) 460-7570
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