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Third year Geology & Earth Science students investigating a section in Corinth, Greece
Drs. Chris Mark & Nathan Cogne's field camp in the Kangi valley in the Himalayas, Ladakh
Fourth year Earth Science students trekking up Mount Etna in Sicily
Carboniferous limestones exposed at Hook head, Co. Wexford, Ireland
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Third year Earth Scientist investigating unconformity on Isle of Kererra, Scotland
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Geology students studying fossiliferous limestones in Co. Wexford, Ireland
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View of the Ticlio Pass in the Western Cordillera of Peru
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Prof. Balz Kamber with Earth Science students investigating volcanic rocks in Sicily
The Carboneras fault zone in the Spanish Betic Cordillera from a 4th year Geology field trip
Fourth year Geologist checking out columnar jointing on Isle of Kererra, Scotland
Trinity Geology 
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.
Research Highlights
Wyse Jackson, P.N. (2016) William Smith and Ireland: sources of Irish geological information on his geological map of 1820. Earth Sciences History, 35, 115–123.
O’Sullivan, E.M., Goodhue, R., Ames, D.E., Kamber, B.S. (2016) Chemostratigraphy of the Sudbury impact basin fill: Volatile metal loss and post-impact evolution of a submarine impact basin, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 183, 198-233.
Kenny, G.G., Whitehouse, M.J., Kamber, B.S. (2016) Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon, Geology, DOI: 10.1130/G37898.1
Baldwin, G.J., Turner, E.C., Kamber, B.S. (2016) Tectonic controls on distribution and stratigraphy of the Cryogenian Rapitan iron formation, northwestern Canada, Precambrian Research, 278, 303-322.
