 Today , Geology Hall houses some of the offices of the university 's administration and the Rutgers Geology Museum . Previously , it housed the offices of the Rutgers geology department , now called the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences , from 1872 until 1979 , when it moved to the university 's Busch Campus in Piscataway . This was the last of the university 's science department to move across the Raritan River to the Busch campus . In 1973 , Geology Hall was included with six other buildings on Rutgers ' Queen 's Campus on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places . 
