Geology - Whitman College

Geology deals with the physical, compound, and common examination of the Earth from its birthplace to the present day. An establishment in earth science not simply assembles the general understudy's vitality about the world, it moreover grows the significance of understanding of a science understudy's own particular field. Bona fide understudies of geology find open entryways in the normal, petroleum, mining, teaching, building, and geophysics fields, and in hydrology, space science, and oceanography.

An understudy who enters Whitman with no prior school level arranging in geology should complete 50 credits (36 in geography) to fulfill the requirements for the topography major. After a geology or topography joined major is announced, no geography course may be taken P-D-F.

Flow: Courses completed in geography apply to the science and quantitative examination (picked courses) scattering districts.

Learning Goals: Upon graduation, an understudy will have the ability to:

Huge Specific Areas of Knowledge 

Have what it takes and establishment data imperative to look for after self-sufficient examinations in the earth sciences. Create bedrock and surficial geologic maps utilizing topographic maps, aeronautical photographs, and hands on work. See and unravel landforms on topographic maps and ethereal photographs. Create significant geologic cross-sections of in a general sense complex areas. See and welcome the associations between human activities and geology. Demonstrate an essential learning of Earth methods and history. Choose the geologic strategies accountable for specific landforms. Choose the conditions of mineral and rock plan considering mineral exhibit, science, and textural associations. Delineate how internal atomic structure chooses the optical and physical properties of minerals.

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