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Department of
Earth Sciences
Brief
Introduction
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2. Programs: |
A. Staff: 40
•Full-time: 36
Professors: 9
Associate Professors: 11
Lecturers: 4
With Doctor's Degree: 16
With Master's Degree: 12
•Part-time: 4
Professors: 3
Associate Professors: 1
B. Students: 247
•Undergraduate Students: 166
•Graduate Students: 81 |
•Ph.D Program:
Mineralogy, Petrology and Ore Deposits
•Master's
Degree Programs:
Structural Geology
Mineralogy, Petrology and Ore Deposits
Quaternary Geology
Geotecnical Engineering
•Undergraduate Program:
Geology
Geo-information Science and Technology
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3. Research Institutes/Laboratories:
Center for Earth Environment & Resources
Center for Lingnan Archeological Research
Center for Gems Research & Identification
Institute of Gems & Mineral Material
Institute of Geotecnical Engineering
Institute of Geotectonics & Genesis of Granite
Research Center for Quaternary Paleoenvironment
Geological & Mineralogical Museum
Experimental Center for Earth Science
Laboratory for Geo-information Engineering
Laboratory for Rock-Mineral Identification
Laboratory for Ore-forming Fluid
Laboratory for High Temperature-Pressure
Laboratory for Geotechnical Engineering
Laboratory for Archeological and Geological Dating
Laboratory for Micropaleontology
Laboratory for Biogeochemistry
Laboratory for Engineering Quakeproof
Laboratory for Radioactive Environment Testing
4. Education Center:
•Continuing Education Center of Department of Earth Science
5. Exchange and Cooperation:
• Diffendal Prize (A prize set up by Professor Diffendal,
an American geologist, to encourage the undergraduate and
graduate studies in the Department)
•PRA (Research Program of French-Chinese Corporation: T004).
"La Foret actuelle relique a Cathaya du Sud de la Chine.
Le Pliocene Mediterraneen: un guide eclairant son histoire."
•Joint Doctoral Program with Universit•Claude
Bernard Lyon 1
•Joint Doctoral Program with University of New Mexico, USA
•Joint Doctoral Program with Quebec University, Regina University
(Canada) and the University of Hong Kong
•Joint Research Project with Quebec University, Regina university
(Canada), the University of Hong Kong, and Geological Survey
of Japan
•Joint Research Project with Survey of Japan
•DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Program: Biogeography
of recent bivalve faunas in the Eastern Pacific (with Institute
of Geology and Paleontology, University Würzburg, Germany)
•Joint Program: Palaeogene lacustrine black shales and environmental
changes in the Sanshui Basin, South China (with Institute
of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Frankfurt, Germany).
6. Unique Programs:
•Major Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC):
Spatial pollen distribution pattern in the East Asia and the
vegetation response to the global climate changes since the
Last Glacial Maximum. Scientists from several countries (China,
Russia, UK, and Thailand) participate in the research.
• Earth Environment & Resources Studies, Studies on Environmental
Geochemistry of Mines and Studies on Geopark Layout
•Occurrence and Enriching Mechanism of Platinum group elements
(PGE), Rare Earth Elements (REE) and Cobalt in Ferromanganese
Crust from Seamount of West Pacific Ocean (NSFC Project )
• Fluid Geochemistry of HP-UHP Metamorphic Rocks in Continental
Deep Drill Hole of China (NSFC Project )
•Microfaunal Evolution and Response to Environmental Changes
in the Pear River Delta during the Holocene (NSFC Project)
•Genesis of tropical-subtropical lacustrine black shales (NSFC
Project)
•Research on Granite Origin
7. Contact us:
E-mail: ee03@sysu.edu.cn
Tel: 00-86 (0)20 84 11 4915
Fax: 00-86 (0)20 84 11 23 90
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(Updated
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