GeologyRocks

If you have the opportunity to do geology you should take it.  Fewer and fewer schools are teaching it in Britain, and even some universities are taking it out.

Whilst I admit to being hooked, I have to say it is a fascinating subject, with many facets.  Even if you take it up as a hobby it does get you out and asbout and into some beautiful and wild places that people don't usually see.

Your problem is that you are in America, and although you have just about all aspects of geology there, they are vast distances apart.  Here in the UK we have pretty much all you have got (on a smaller scale perhaps) but I believe I'm right in saying that the United Kingdom would fit into New York State.  So we don't have so far to travel. 

Most people seem to come to geology from a childhood  interest in fossils.  I did it the other way - by buying a 'pretty stone' (blue lace agate) much later in life. I now have a huge collection  of specimens from a tiny diamond with an inclusion (bought in Amsterdam) to a lump of Borrowdale volcanic tuft (collected in the Lake District), which I'd like to take with me when I move, but I doubt I can lift now!  (I'm 25 years older).

I teach geology, I sell geological specimens, and I am rarely without an Earth science book on the go.  You will get hooked on it.  You will find some really good pubs.  And you will find some pretty girls interested as well.  Go for it! 

  John

“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” -  Will Durant