UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Bachelor of Science in Combined Studies

Earth Science

COURSES STUDIED:

EARTH’S MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 1

Earth’s Structure and Plate Tectonics; Crystals and Minerals; Magmatism, Volcanism and the Igneous Rocks; Weathering, Granular Sediments; Fluvial Processes and Landforms; Meteorology 1 – Water in the Atmosphere; Field Surveying and Aerial Photographs; Geological Mapping and Maps.

EARTH’S MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 2

Cohesive Sediments and the Sedimentary Rocks; Metamorphic Processes and the Metamorphic Rocks; Structural Geology; Marine, Periglacial and Glacial Processes and Landforms; Soils – Engineering Properties; Meteorology 2 and Climatology; Stratigraphy.