• Applied Geology

• Engineering Geology & Geotechnics

Sam Hughes

Module Credit Assessment

Exam Cwk

Earth and Environmental

Chemistry 15 70% 30%

Mathematics 1A 15 60% 40%

Surveying and CAD 15 50% 50%

Geology 15 70% 30%

Crystallography and Mineralogy 15 80% 20%

Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 15 70% 30%

Field Geology and Geological

Maps 30 0% 100%

Year 1 AG and EGG

Year 1 modules

Year 1 fieldwork 9 one day field classes around Cornwall

Advantages of studying in Cornwall

– outstanding local geology

Our own local

plate boundary

Lizard Nappe

Dodman Nappe

Veryan Nappe

Carrick Nappe

Parautochthon

After Leveridge et al. (1990)

c. 415-370 Ma NNW SSE

c. 370-305 Ma NNW SSE

RHZ SXT

lower plate upper plate northern passive margin

Rhenohercynian

'ocean'

Year 1 fieldwork 7 day residential trip to Pembrokeshire

Module Credit Assessment

Exam Cwk

Structural Geology and Tectonics 30 50% 50%

Sedimentology 30 50% 50%

Geological Mapping Techniques 15 0% 100%

Geotechnics 15 70% 30%

Igneous and Metamorphic

Petrology 30 50% 50%

Year 2 AG and EGG

Structural Geology and

Tectonics

Sedimentology

Geotechnics

Igneous and Metamorphic

Petrology

Year 2 fieldwork Summer Survey

Year 2 fieldwork 6 one day field classes around Cornwall

Year 2 fieldwork Residential trip to Devon and Dorset

Year 2 fieldwork Residential trip to the Isle of Rum

Module Credit Modules Assessment

AG EGG Exam Cwk

Surface Excavation Design 15 AG EGG 70% 30%

Health & Safety, Risk Mgmt 15 option option 60% 40%

Tunnelling and Excav Dsn 15 - EGG 70% 30%

Mineral Deposit Geology 15 AG option 70% 30%

Engineering Geol Dsn Prjct 15 - EGG 0% 100%

GIS for Geology 15 AG EGG 50% 50%

Geology Research Project 15 AG - 0% 100%

Exploration Techniques 15 AG EGG 50% 50%

Applied Field Geology 15 AG EGG 0% 100%

Contaminated Land 15 option EGG 80% 20%

Summer Vacation Project 30 AG EGG 0% 100%

Hydrogeology 15 AG EGG 70% 30%

Year 3

Year 3 modules

Year 3 fieldwork Residential trip to Cyprus or Spain

Year 3 Fieldwork - Geophysics

Project work

Costs and timing of fieldwork

One day classes in Cornwall Free Years 1, 2 & 3

Pembrokeshire Free May – Year 1

Summer surveying Free June – Year 1

Dorset Free November – Year 2

Rum Free Easter – Year 2

Summer vacation project Variable Between Year 2 & 3

Dartmoor Free February – Year 3

Cyprus or Spain Free Easter – Year 3

Exploration and mining

(metals, fuels, industrial

minerals, gems)

Environmental geology

Engineering geology

Risk assessment

Hydrogeology

Academic research and

teaching

Careers in geology

At 6 months after graduation, 11 out of

17 employed or doing further study in

geology

CSM Geology Graduates 2010

CSM Geology Graduates July 2011

MinTech

Geologist,

London

Geotechnics,

Hong Kong

MSc Mining

Geology

Job hunting

Ecometals

Ecuador Current PhD

student

Geotechnics,

Georgia

Xstrata,

Congo First

Quantum

Zambia

Coffey

Mining,

Aus

MSc

volcanology Exploration,

Australia Geologist,

Congo Avon

Gold

Corp. Mali Lecturer

First Quantum,

Zambia EU MSc

Geotech

Geotech,

Coffey Mining,

Australia

EU MSc

Geotech

PhD CSM

Geotechnics,

Coffey mining

Geotechnics,

Hong Kong Glencore,

Bakino-Fazo

20/21 employed or

doing further study in

geology