You might also consider a College Transitions site, “Best Colleges for Geology,” which manages to name most of the country’s stronger colleges for the study of geosciences. For context, below is their entire list. For ease of reading, I separated LACs from universities and italicized your child’s potential choices:
Amherst College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Hamilton College
Lafayette College
Macalester College
Oberlin College
Occidental College
St. Lawrence University
Union College
Whitman College
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
College of William and Mary
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Lehigh University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University
Penn State University
Princeton University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Florida
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yale University