Geology Personal Statement

Standing on what was once a piece of oceanic crust, laid down in the Ordovician period 450 million years ago, I was captured by the astounding power behind the forces that had moved this exact piece of crust over exceptionally long periods of time to be situated inland, adjacent to a river, to where it is in the present day. Taking on Geology was a decision I made based on my thorough enjoyment and fascination of the physical aspect of geography at GCSE, particularly learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and the mighty forces that shape the planet to what it has become today. My curiosity about plate tectonics and rock formations led me to segue from Geography to Geology, a department at the college where I found myself most enthralled. Learning about the mighty processes that our planet went through, and will go through, with or without the human race, I had discovered the subject that I want to read at university. …show more content…
I have gained and developed analytical, teamwork and independent skills that will further aid me with my studies in the future. I am a keen visitor at the geological museum in Cambridge, a place where I have gained an appreciation of such influential processes that occur on a large geological timescale. Every visit, I am so captivated by their vast collections that it has inspired me to start my own. Having lived in Singapore for more than a decade, as well as other countries in South-East Asia, I have a spirit for travel that compliments my inquisitiveness in geology. Visiting the Chocolate Hills in the Philippines led me to discover how the landscape was shaped to produce the conical karst hills by processes of uplift and erosion of