Geology classes?

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:43 pm

Just curious to know if any of us actually took any kind of geology class in another life? I had a college level geology class that involved a little local field work. University of Minnesota, circa 1973-74. One of my electives.

Anyone?

I'll bet I sold the textbook to help fund my next semester of classes, doggone it!

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:47 pm

I never have, but then again I majored in Business the in Respiratory Therapy. they didn't offer anything like that where i went to school.

I have been looking for some Adult Ed classes but have not come across any yet. I don't really want to take college credits for it. I have enough of those LOL I even looked into the Milwaukee Public Museum to see if they had anything

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:03 am

Graduated in 01 with a BS in Geology from UW-Madison. I probably ought to get an EC out there, as they are popping up in throngs.

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:00 am

Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

... I majored in Business the in Respiratory Therapy.

That combination must really be in demand lately.

"Just breath slow and deep, the economy will improve" wink

WGA Member Joined: 2007-02-03 Posts: 2182

I threw a really interesting rock at a kid in grade school once. Little did I know that someday this would come back to haunt me with all of the caches hidden in ROCKS!

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:37 am

Nope...lots of Psychology, Biology and some Anthropology but no Geology.
I just like to learn new things and rocks are cool.

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:44 pm

Mister Greenthumb wrote:

I threw a really interesting rock at a kid in grade school once. Little did I know that someday this would come back to haunt me with all of the caches hidden in ROCKS!

Karma is a Bitch.

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:45 am

When I went to College (stone age) all of our classes were about geology. We just didn't call it that. Any kid studying "geology" was a total geek (we called them nerds then).

WGA Member Joined: 2004-05-19 Posts: 730

No geology classes here. Wish I would have because I now work at the WEIS Earth Science Museum at UW Fox Valley. It is the official state mineralogical museum and focuses on Wisconisn geology. And compared to my coworkers - I need more than the basics. Smile

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:24 am

I remember in a grade school science unit on geology, we found some rocks with fossils in them. Does that count for anything?

WGA Member Joined: 2008-06-28 Posts: 6 Location: Rice Lake

My first undergrad was broad field science education which got me into the teaching world. Since my course work involved a little of everything, geology was on the list.

I don't teach geology (prefer the chem) and never want to but the information does come in handy and I even still have the textbook I had to buy.

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:43 pm

I read Roadside Geology of Wisconsin. That's where I get my information.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:29 am

The rocks I was educated in are gallstones and kidney stones. I don't remember exactly but I don't think I learned about them in a geology class - lol.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:30 am

elfdoctors wrote:

The rocks I was educated in are gallstones and kidney stones....

But how to spin that for an EarthCache creation...?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:06 am

No geology here. My daughter graduated from Madison in 06 with an undergraduate degree in geology. She showed me the fossils of trilobite butts along the river in Eau Claire that I made into an EC. She says there is an exposed fault line in a road cut in Chippewa, but cant recall where, so not much help there.

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