SUN Earth Sciences

Undergraduate student field trips on the West and South Coast

SU Sedimentologist helps uncover rare dinosaur nesting site in Central Utah (USA)

Fieldwork at Sheba and Fairview gold mines in Barberton

Paper on 1268-77 +/- 4 Ma old Gardar dykes in SE Greenland awarded as one of GFF’s top three in 2016

Prizewinner of SA Young Persons’ Lecture Competition M. Mayne will go to World finals in Australia

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Welcome to the Department of Earth Sciences

The Mission and Vision

Our vision is that the Department will provide the best possible environment within which both staff and students can maximise their potential, for the benefit of South Africa, through sound and practical training in our disciplines, research and scholarship. Read more ...

Postgrad at SU Earth Sciences?

Are you interested ? Check here. Our 2018 honours students

Research field work at Baringhup pluton.. Core for student logging excercises

Don't miss the video our honours students made about their year and the honours tour:

Earth Sciences

next seminar

Wednesday 20. June .2018

Recent publications

A. Rozendaal, S.G. Le Roux, A. du Plessis, C. Philander, 2018 Grade and product quality control by microCT scanning of the world class Namakwa Sands Ti-Zr placer deposit West Coast, South Africa: An orientation study, Minerals Engineering,

116, 152-162

A Watson, J Miller, M Fleischer, W de Clercq, 2018 Estimation of groundwater recharge via percolation outputs from a rainfall/runoff model for the Verlorenvlei estuarine system, west coast, South Africa,

Journal of Hydrology, 558,

238-254

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