中山大学地质学的百年学科发展

Centennial development of geology at Sun Yat-sen University

孙中山先生1924年创办国立广东大学时,理科学系就有地质学科。地质学系成立初期就以高水平建设为起点和聚焦岭南地区为特色,引进了诸多国内外著名学者来校任教。1927年成立两广地质调查所,极大提高了野外实践能力的培养。高起点的学科设置和一流师资,以及具有国际视野的地质学理论在中国南方的早期应用形成了融入欧洲学派和具有岭南地域特色的学科特点。中山大学地质学高等教育在近代史民主革命时期具有领先地位,创造了辉煌的历史。解放后,中山大学地质学科经历了1952年全国院系调整,以及多次艰难的专业复办和调整过程。尽管如此,地质学科结合国家经济发展的不同阶段,先后创办了地质工程、宝玉石与矿物材料、地球信息科学与技术等新兴学科培养方向。自2002年再次成为独立建制的地球科学系之后,在国家改革开放良好的区位条件和深厚的历史底蕴下,地质学科重新走强,目前已建设成地质学、地球物理、地质资源与地质工程的高等学校专业人才培养基地。现在位于珠海校区的地球科学与工程学院以崭新的面貌和高水平的科研教学平台吸引了来自全国各地的地质学科优秀学子和国内外科学人才。

In 1924,Dr.Sun Yat-sen founded the National Guangdong University,which included the department of geology in sciences.From the outset,the department of geology was established with a high academic standard and a focus on the Guangdong region as its distinctive feature.Many well-known scholars from both domestic and foreign countries were employed to teach at the university during the early years.In 1927,the Geological Survey of Kwangtung and Kwangsi was established,greatly enhancing the training of field practice.The high-level science setting and international geological theory applied in the South China formed a discipline feature that integrated European schools and had a local flavor of the Lingnan region.The geological higher education at Sun Yat-sen University during the democratic revolutionary period of modern history had a leading position and created a brilliant history of geology in China.After the founding of the People's Republic of China,the geology program at Sun Yat-sen University went through the national college and faculty reorganization in 1952,as well as many difficult restoration and adjustment processes.Nevertheless,the department has combined with the different stages of national economic development to establish new academic directions such as geological engineering,gemstone and mineral materials,and earth information science and technology.Since the geology department was reestablished as an independent department in 2002,it has regained its strength under the favorable regional conditions of China's reform and opening up and the profound historical legacy,and has now become a professional training base for high education in geology,geophysics,and geological engineering.Now the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering in Zhuhai,with a brand-new look and a high level of scientific research and teaching platform,has attracted outstanding students and scientific talents from all over the world.