Open geoscience curriculum · Institution-neutral roadmap
Geoscience Academy
All 29 main volumes are available to read; five reference works remain planned. The curriculum has no affiliation with, sponsorship by or endorsement from any company or individual. Standards, public agencies and people named in citations identify technical sources only.
A · Scientific bridge
- A1 · Scientific Foundations for Geoscience: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Data and Uncertainty — Publication Volume 2
- A2 · Earth, Deep Time and Plate Tectonics — Publication Volume 3
- A3 · Minerals, Crystals, Rocks and Earth Materials — Publication Volume 4
- A4 · Geological Observation, Maps, Sections and 3D Spatial Thinking — Publication Volume 5
B · Core geology
- B1 · Sedimentology and Stratigraphy — Publication Volume 6
- B2 · Igneous Processes, Metamorphism and Rock Evolution — Publication Volume 7
- B3 · Structural Geology and Tectonics — Publication Volume 8
- B4 · Geomorphology, Regolith and Surficial Geology — Publication Volume 9
- B5 · Geochemistry, Isotopes and Geochronology — Publication Volume 10
C · Mineral exploration
- C1 · Economic Geology, Ore Deposits and Mineral Systems — Publication Volume 11
- C2 · Mineral Exploration Lifecycle, Target Generation and Competing Hypotheses — Publication Volume 12
- C3 · Exploration Geochemistry — Publication Volume 13
- C4 · Exploration Geophysics — Publication Volume 14
- C5 · Remote Sensing, Aerial Imagery and Spectral Geology — Publication Volume 15
- C6 · Drilling, Core, Logging, Sampling, Assay and QA/QC — Publication Volume 16
D · Mining lifecycle
- D1 · 3D Geological Modelling, Domains and Uncertainty — Publication Volume 17
- D2 · Statistics, Geostatistics, Resource Estimation and Classification — Publication Volume 18
- D3 · Mine Geology, Grade Control and Reconciliation — Publication Volume 19
- D4 · Mining Engineering, Geotechnics, Hydrogeology, Surveying and Safety Foundations — Publication Volume 20
- D5 · Mineral Processing, Metallurgy and Mining Economics Foundations — Publication Volume 21
- D6 · Environment, Tailings, Social Licence, Closure, Reporting and Ethics — Publication Volume 22
E · Geoscience systems engineering
- E1 · Geodesy, Datums, Mine Grids and GIS — Publication Volume 23
- E2 · Geoscience Data Semantics, Formats, Storage, Metadata and Provenance — Publication Volume 24
- E3 · Drillhole Trajectories, Interval Data and Quality-Control Algorithms — Publication Volume 25
- E4 · Raster, Vector, Point Cloud, Mesh, Voxel and 3D Computing — Publication Volume 26
- E5 · Scientific Visualisation and Geoscience Software Interaction Design — Publication Volume 27
- E6 · Geoscience Systems Architecture, Data Pipelines, Versioning, Testing and Audit — Publication Volume 28
- E7 · AI, LLMs, Evidence Graphs and Verifiable Geoscience Reasoning — Publication Volume 29
F · Integrated case
- F1 · Public Geoscience Data and the Auditable Evidence Workbench — Publication Volume 30
R · Reference library
- R1 · Bilingual Glossary of Geology, Exploration, Mining and Geoscience Systems — Planned, unavailable
- R2 · Quick Reference for Units, Formulae, Symbols, Coordinates and Methods — Planned, unavailable
- R3 · Visual Atlas of Minerals, Rocks, Structures, Alteration and Ore Deposits — Planned, unavailable
- R4 · Directory of Geoscience Data Formats, Industry Standards, APIs and Interoperability — Planned, unavailable
- R5 · Geoscience Systems Failure Modes, QA Checklists and Professional Boundaries — Planned, unavailable