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I have started daydreaming of a career change to geology. There are just so many unanswered questions and its not like space or physics were these questions are tinyor super far away. You can just walk upto a geologic puzzle and hit it with a hammer.

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“this rock tastes like… History.”

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Ever heard of Geophysics? :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysics

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Not sure if my username gave it away or not, but I’m really into applied mathematics. I’m a physics major right now, & while I don’t immediately see myself studying this in grad school, I think that the physics of Volcanism/Plate Tectonics is extremely fascinating. It certainly looks at the history of the world through a very different lens, but I wouldn’t write it off completely!! The physics of our Earth is a beautiful, beautiful thing. :)

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Yeah! Geomag, tomography, and dating are all really important tools, and magma dynamics is a whole encyclopedia waiting to be written. So cool!

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Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Terry Pratchett

https://www.motionmountain.net/motionmountain-volume5.pdf

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Unfortunately geology jobs that aren’t working for the oil and gas industries are few and far between.

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Hey! There’s other resources to extract!

But yeah, thats a big pressure away form it and a reason its still daydreams

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That is not exactly true. My dad was a geology professor. About half his students ended up in oil and gas. The other half were employed as city planners, teachers, consulting geologists, and in , civil engineering firms, environmental services firms, mining and others.

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