The Department was initially founded in 1895 as the School of Mines at the South African College which later became the University of Cape Town.
24/05/2021
Hot off the press! Cudos to Emese, her students and collaborators!
Karoo lava-fed deltas and a petrified forest from the Lower Jurassic of southern Gondwana! Palaeoenvironmental changes during continental flood basalt volcanism in large igneous provinces are increasingly linked to global environmental perturbations.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018221002698?via%3Dihub
27/10/2020
The Department of Geological Sciences hosted a celebratory picnic at Arderne Gardens, Claremont on Friday 23 October. The occasion was to celebrate the successful completion of a PhD by Mieng Abrahams, nGAP lecturer in our department. The organiser of the event, Emese Bordy , was Mieng’s supervisor. She also supervised Claire Geel's PhD; Mieng and Claire will graduate together in December during a virtual UCT event.
Arderne Gardens was established in the 1845 by, surprise, surprise, Mr Ralph Arderne. It is home to the most amazing collection of very old and majestic trees and was an entirely appropriate venue for the occasion. In this picture, we see Emese, Robert Morrell, Chris Harris (HoD), Alastair Sloan (right) and Mieng herself among her postgrad peers.
21/06/2020
Throwback to the Geoquiz night 10 days before lockdown. Little did we know that this would be the last hangout for a while! Cheers!
11/03/2020
Check out our newly renovated tea room and common area, we get to sit here sip some tea and talk about all things Rock!
03/03/2020
A warm welcome to the Honours class of 2020!
http://www.geology.uct.ac.za/bsc-honours-2020
03/03/2020
Lunchtime seminar by Asanda Benya on Women in Mining.
30/01/2020
Karoo firewalkers make tracks amid lava flows!
UCT Associate Prof Emese Bordy and colleagues describe vertebrate trackways that offer rare insights about ancient life in a stressful, hostile environment some 183 million years ago in the Early Jurassic.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226847 -0226847-g006
11/10/2019
05/10/2019
Re-juvenation of the Western Cape Branch of the GSSA and a talk by Dr Chris Hartnady:
02/02/2020