Also, how often are geologists/geophysicists used for natural gas exploration?
Answer Bob: Good questions. First, if you can get accepted into the geology program, without taking some remedial, that is basic geology courses, you might be in for a rough haul and will not get the most out of the graduate program. I doubt you have what we call “core” courses, mineralogy and petrology (1 year), sedimentology-sedimentary petrology (1yr), paleontology (1 semester), stratigraphy and structural geology, (1 semester each). If you have a BS you probably have chemistry and physics, 1 year each. If you don’t have these prerequisites, you are missing fundamental knowledge that you really need in order to understand and learn what will be taught at the graduate level. I let my “advisor” sign me up for courses my first year as a geolgy major. I matriculated and changed from history to geology. I lacked core courses like chemistry and took them at the same time I took classes like geochemistry and economic geology. Geochemistry required chemistry, but taking it concurrently was
