The international students majoring in Environmental Sciencetook part in a field exercise led by Zsuzsanna Plank on October 30th.
The first stop was the Time Trail exhibited in front of the Hungarian Natural History Museum where the multi-ton rocks illustrate hundreds of millions of years of the earth’s geological time.
The interactive lesson gave an opportunity to the students to study the rocks representing the characteristic formations in Hungary; to practice rock recognition; to recognize and identify the effects caused by geological events.
We continued our tour to Buda, Gellért Hill, and then headed north along the Danube all the way to Castle Hill.
During our trip we got acquainted with geological history of Budapest and studied at its traces on the surface outcrops.Thus we could examine the characteristics of the main geological formations of Budapest up close. For instance, the Main Dolomite, the SashegyDolomite, the Buda Marl, and the Tard Clay Formations.