We stress personalized, individual attention to graduate student research. Our program provides a combination of classical geological training, involving a significant field component, together with applications of modern technology, such as remote sensing, to solve geological and environmental problems.
Graduate students become proficient in a wide variety of computer techniques.
We are closely linked with the Environmental Science Program at TCU, and many students carry out research in environmental geology, earth surface processes, hydrogeology and related topics. Faculty and students also are engaged in structural, tectonic, stratigraphic, sedimentological, paleontological, paleovolcanological and petrological studies in Oklahoma and Texas, Scotland, southern Africa and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. A new departmental strength involves research in the dynamics and evolution of coastal geomorphic systems, with study areas along the coasts of North Carolina, New England and Texas. Fort Worth is centrally located relative to a wealth of diverse geological settings, in addition to the classic Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata of the southern midcontinent. The spectacularly exposed geology of the Big Bend region in west Texas is an area of particular departmental expertise and interest.