Picking Up An Interesting Dissertation Topic In Geology.
You are required to carry out a six-week mapping dissertation during the summer. You will be assigned a tutor appropriate for your dissertation. Support for the dissertation will take the form of one-to-one tutorial sessions. This provides you with the opportunity to engage with academic issues at the forefront of geological research, in a learning environment that is very much focused on.
Students are required to choose a mapping area (typically of 8-18 km2), write a mapping proposal, carry out independent geological mapping of the area over a minimum of 28 days of field work, and present field documentation (field note book and field maps) and professionally produced dissertation and final map. Full details are given in the mapping handbooks. Course description: The very.
In the summer between year two and three, you will do a five-week independent mapping project to prepare for your dissertation in year three. You can choose to do this in the UK or overseas. In the past students have chosen to study areas in North Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Northern Spain, Southern France or the French Alps.
Geology of the Durness region, N.W. Scotland Laura Scott Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University Academic Year 2016-2017 This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the.
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The items in this section include notebooks, compass clinometers, geological hammers and more within a students price range and budget but which will still allow the you as a student to undertake any field work you may have upcoming, accurately and correctly. Such as module field trips and independent mapping and dissertation projects.
In the North the geology is part of the Caledonian orogeny and these rocks are all older than 395 million years ago. The mountain building movement comes from the north, from Caledonia or Scotland and is generally aligned from the East North East to the West South West. Take a look at the map above and you will see the the rocks line up in the north on a diagonal starting in the Cardigan Teifi.