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It has been past for four billion, six hundred million years since the earth was born. If the age of the earth had been one year, we, human beings, would have been born at sunset in 31 December. And now we face on difficult problems of earth environments as a result of our activities during only one second from a industrial revolution. It starts from understanding of the earth to solve those problems. Earth sciences cover the base of it. |
Rocks and strata records various events in themselves, which had happened in remote past. Earth science is fantastic learning to reveal those events and reaches in various scales such as the continent, plate, and atom. |
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Since our department was established in 1964, we centered the curriculum on the solid earth such as geology, petrology, and mineralogy. In 1985, the Division of Geology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering was established and all of our full-time faculty hold a post concurrently. In 1999, the 50th anniversary of the School of Education, we changed the name of department from "Chigaku Sensyu" to "Chikyu-kagaku Sensyu" though the english name is the same "Earth Sciences". We are taking this occasion to proceed the reformation of curriculum fitting for earth science in 21st century.
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Our purpose is to train talent who have special skills and a global point of view. So the department has turned out many competent talent. About 40 students graduate our department in every year. Alumni are active in teaching at university, high schools and junior high schools, mining, resource companies, construction companies, publishing companies, broadcasting companies, industry, computing, and so on. |
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The full-time faculty in this department are experts of geology, sedimentology, paleontology, structural geology, petrology, ore geology, isotope geochemistry, astrophysics, and so on. They are also active in many academic societies as well as in teaching in university. Forth year students and graduate students are supervised by those staff and study their research. There is a close relationship between staff and students, and a homely feel. |
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