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Special Edition in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Geology Department at the University of Pretoria

Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa., e-mail: adam.bumby@up.ac.za

Hassina Mouri

Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa, (University of Pretoria until July 2008), e-mail: hmouri@uj.ac.za

Wlady Altermann

Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria, and Professor of Geology at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich., Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany, e-mail: uk10117@mail.lrz-muenchen.de

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	INTRODUCTION

 
In 1908 the University of Pretoria was formed from a part of the Transvaal University College, and geology was amongst the few subjects taught in those early years. By this time (thirteen years after the foundation of the Geological Society of South Africa in 1895) geology was already a well established and an economically important profession in South Africa. Widespread mapping activities had been in progress since about the 1860s and important mineral deposits, including gold, were already reported from various localities in South Africa. The need for locally-educated geologists was pressing and the newly established University of Pretoria aimed at satisfying these needs for the next century. Since then the Geology Department at UP has not only produced excellent science but has also supplied the South African and international geoscience community with excellent scholars at all levels of education. Within the current economic climate and with the increasingly desperate need of our society and industry for young graduates in the geosciences, the department is supplying an increasing number of fresh geoscientists. This commitment over the last 100 years . . . [Full Text of this Article]