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Field camp in Kangi valley in the Himalayas, Ladakh
The Aran Islands, Co. Galway
Dr. Chris Nicholas leading the 2nd year field trip to Co. Clare.
Senior sophister students mountain treking in Sicily
The Piora Valley was carved out by glaciers, Central Alps
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Junior sophister investigating unconformity on Isle of Kererra, Scotland
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Senior sophister checking out columnar jointing on Isle of Kererra, Scotland
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Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano in the East African Rift Valley, Tanzania
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Senior freshmen studying fossiliferous limestones in Wexford, Ireland
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Ticlio Pass, Western Cordillera, Peru
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Triassic sandstones resting unconformably on strongly folded Carboniferous greywackes, Sagres, Portugal
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Prof. Balz Kamber and students investigate volcanic rocks, Sicily
Carboneras fault zone, Betic Cordillera, Spain
Geology at TCD 
Geology is the study of the earth, its processes, its materials, its life, and how these have changed over 4.567 billion years of time. Geology is of central importance to society. Information gathered by geoscientists helps us understand the changing climate, predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, find supplies of fossil fuels and minerals ores, maintain clean air and water, understand the motion of the earth’s crust and oceans, and reconstruct the evolution of the rocky planets and life.
At Trinity, our staff investigate the fundamental principles of geological processes, which occur at a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. We combine fieldwork in Ireland, across Europe and around the world, with laboratory analyses, numerical modelling and theory. Students participate in this cutting-edge research whilst developing keen observational and analytical skills taught both in the field and the laboratory. Our graduates apply these skills to a wide range of geoscientific questions, aimed at understanding Earth’s history and its future, and the sustainability of energy and resources required to support a growing human population.
Interested in coming to the Geology Department for undergraduate studies or postgraduate research? Please contact the individual staff members directly to find out more, or better still, come to visit us in the Museum Building.
Prof. Balz Kamber, Chair of Geology & Mineralogy
Research Highlights
Kamber, B.S. (2015) The evolving nature of terrestrial crust from the Hadean, through the Archaean, into the Proterozoic, Precambrian Research, 258, 48-82.
Babechuk, M.G., Widdowson, M., Murphy, M., and Kamber, B.S. (2015) A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India. Chemical Geology, 396, 25-41.
Cogné N., Chew, D.M. and Stuart, F.M. (2014) The thermal history of the western Irish onshore. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 171, 779-792
Tomlinson, E.L. et al. (2014) The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: Tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, in press.
