The Geological Museum is considered as one of the most important components of the educational and research infrastructure in the department. The museum occupies an area of ​​about 280 square meters and contains 48 sample showcases and 15 tables, in addition to 8 wall cupboards, where it is unique in displaying samples of the famous and rare local and international samples. It also includes samples of economic materials found in multiple natural resources of Egypt.

  The museum receives all students at the university level, along with trips from school students and other pioneers, whether from Egypt or Arab and foreign countries, who visit Mansoura University in the framework of cultural exchange between Egyptian universities and others.

  The main objective of the museum is to spread culture and scientific knowledge of earth sciences and the mining history of Egypt through the ages and natural resources, documenting the relationship between man, his history and cosmic phenomena, and introducing university and school students to geology and earth sciences.

  The Geological Museum at Mansoura University also aims to simplify the academic study of the various branches of geology and install it in the minds of students in order to see all kinds of minerals, ores, rocks and fossils that the student studies in theory.

In fact, the museum hold more than 3000 samples of fossils and rare minerals, 1500 samples of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, and more than 1000 samples of rare minerals and precious stones.

Internal photo for the Mansoura University Geological Museum

Collection of local and multinational mineral samples

Collection of local and multinational ore minerals

Collection of rare minerals from various countries worldwide

A collection of gemstones

Groups of shells, corals, gastropods and ammonites

Models of the atomic structure for some crystals

Collections of minerals and some brief examples of iron oxides

Collections of some black sands for the Northern Coastal area of Rosetta area

A group of ammonite shells

Some of the school visits to the museum from the Dakahlia governorate

   About the department

  It is our extreme honor to welcome you all to the homepage of the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University. Many people think that the geological sciences involve just the study of rocks. Majoring in geological science is an opportunity to focus on everything from the evolution of life to natural hazards, sustainable natural resources management, understanding climate change, and planetary exploration.

  We hope that through this window, the Department of Geology of Mansoura University looks more familiar to you, even if it is far away from you. The study in the Department of Geology started in 1969 as a branch of Cairo University, then as a part of the Faculty of Science of Mansoura University in 1973. The diverse scientific and research fields in the department include petroleum geology; sedimentology and sedimentary rocks; paleontology and stratigraphy; hydrogeology; petrology; mineralogy and ore deposits; applied geophysics and environmental geology.

  The Geology of the Nile Delta always has the priority in research plans of the department as Mansoura is located in the mid-eastern part of the Nile Delta. Subsurface information, stratigraphic classification, sedimentological characteristics, structures and economic potentials have been of special interest to the teaching staff members. Moreover, the present environmental hazards threatening modern sector of the Nile Delta as marine erosion, salinization, soil degradation, neo-tectonics as seismic events and subsidence are subject that deserved keen studies in the Geology Department of Mansoura University.

  On these subjects and related aspects, the Geology Department at Mansoura University holds many activities including conferences, workshops, training courses and symposia. The department staff has a good credit regarding scientific publications in international and local journals.

  It gives us great pleasure to welcome you all to join the family of the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University. As earth scientists, we are looking out to the rest of the world and we expect more openness to others either as earth scientists or as friends from all over the world.

Areas of study in the geological sciences

The Department of Geology awards master's and doctoral degrees in areas of specializations:

• Petroleum geology
• Hydrology
• Applied geophysics
• Rocks, minerals and ores deposits
• Stratigraphy and paleontology
• Sedimentation and sedimentary rocks
• Environmental geology

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