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"Geology"

Has anyone studied it, or know someone who has?

I'm in 2nd year Geography course, it covers some geology as well.

I did Geography at A-Level. Thats was half human and half physical though but I did learn how rocks are formed.

You could always do neither. A degree in a science from a good uni pretty much gives you a fair crack at anything you want that's not vocational.

But geology pays much much better. Also you get the chance to travel more. Jobs in archaeology are more scarce with rubbish pay. 'Tis a hard one.

Given those 2 I would go for Archaelogy over Geology, at least Archaelogy has its moments of excitement - the discovery of a new dinosaur fossil etc...

Whereas with Geology I can't imagine the most exciting / interesting thing being more than the discovery that rock A has a higher sodium content than rock B...

RoJ wrote:
> Well, I was thinking of taking a degree in it. It is either
> archaeology or geology, I'm applying for both in different Unis.
> Hard choice.

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Do archaeology, because I predict if you do geology there will come a time when you throw your work everywhere, shout 'They're just rocks, sod it" and storm out to a life of hedonism.

Chr1s wrote:
bored
> the crap out of me.

Really? I heard geology rocks..

*cringe*

Well, it looks like it's going to be a hefty part of my A-level geography and what I've done of it so far has, to be honest, bored the crap out of me.

Well, I was thinking of taking a degree in it. It is either archaeology or geology, I'm applying for both in different Unis. Hard choice.

I did it at GCSE. It was fairly boring, but the alternative was something equally awful. Forgotten what now. Probably Physics.