As well as information about locally run courses, this page also contains links to various University and College Geology and Earth Science departments. There are also listings of other organisations involved in promoting Geology.

Please note - if you find a broken link here, or a non-functioning site, please let me know - go to the Contact page for details.

Argyll College

The new season of Adult Education classes is now up and running. Classes are on Wednesday evenings at An Tobar, Tobermory, from 7:00 pm till 9:30 pm. There are 8 classes in the programme, so the dates will be:

• 24 Oct
• 31 Oct
• 7 Nov
• 14 Nov
• 21 Nov
• 28 Nov
• 5 Dec
• 12 Dec

Field Excursion dates are still to be decided, but the localities will be from the following list:

• Calgary
• Iona
• Ardtun
• Ulva / Laganulva
• Gribun
• Carsaig
• Fionnphort
• Scoor
• Ardalanish
• Glen More

There will be 5 field trips in total - some of the locations in the above list will be paired up e.g. Fionnphort and Ardtun, Scoor and Ardalanish.

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Universities and Colleges

• Aberdeen: Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology
• Aberystwyth: Institute of Earth Studies
• Birmingham: School of Earth Sciences
• Bristol: Department of Geology
• Cambridge: Department of Earth Sciences
• Camborne School of Mines
• Cardiff: Department of Earth Sciences
• Derby: Division of Earth Sciences
• Durham: Department of Geological Sciences
• East Anglia: School of Environmental Sciences
• Edinburgh: Department of Geology and Geophysics
• Glasgow: Department of Geology/Applied Geology
• Imperial College: Earth Science & Engineering Department
• Keele: Geology Department
• Kingston: School of Geological Scienrth Studies
• Leeds: School of Earth and Environment
• Liverpool: Earth Sciences Department
• Manchester: Geology Department
• Newcastle: Geotechnical Group, Department of Civil Engineering
• Nottingham: Department of Mineral Resources Engineering
• Open University: Department of Earth Sciences
• Oxford: Department of Earth Sciences
• Oxford Brookes: Geology & Cartography Division
• Portsmouth: Department of Geology
• Queen's University: School of Geosciences
• Reading: Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology
• Robert Gordon University: Environmental Geochemistry Research Group
• Royal Holloway: Department of Geology
• St. Andrews: Department of Geology
• Sheffield: Department of Earth Sciences
• Southampton: Geology Department
• University College: Department of Geological Sciences

Adult Education classes are provided either by the Community Education Dept of Argyll and Bute Council or by Argyll college, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands

A night class is being run from October to December 2006. Check the news page for latest details