New Mexico State University

Department of Geological Sciences

 

Geological Sciences Colloquium

Spring 2007

Regularly scheduled talks will be held Wednesday at 4:00 PM in Room 189 Breland Hall (BD).

Please arrive at 3:45 for food, announcements, and prime seat selection.

E-Mail geology@nmsu.edu or call 646-2708 for additional information.

 

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Jan. 16            Colloquium Overview/ food assignments

 

Jan. 23            Grant Meyer, University of New Mexico

                        "Fire, climate, and geomorphic change in western US mountain forests".

 

Jan. 30            Beth Welle. NMSU, Geological Sciences Graduate Student

“Testing the Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits-Mesaverde fluvial connection:

A detrital zircon U-PB and petrographic provenance approach”

 

Feb. 6              Shari Kelly, Los Alamos Labs;

                        "Exhumation history of the Colorado Plateau"

 

Feb. 13            Sean Gulick, UT –Austin; Joint Oceanographic Institutions Distinguished Lecturer

“One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater”

 

Feb. 20            Elizabeth Schermer, Western Washington University;

                        “Active tectonics of the North Island, New Zealand: 1855 (M8.3) and other large earthquakes”

 

Feb. 27            Johnson Chair Search -TBA

 

March 5          Johnson Chair Search -TBA

 

March 12        Johnson Chair Search -TBA

 

March 19        GSA Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Section Meeting –No colloquium           

 

March 26       Spring Break – No Colloquium

 

April 2             Gary Hunt, NMSU, Geological Sciences Graduate Student

“Detrital Zircon Geochronology of lower cretaceous conglomerates, San Rafael swell and Wasatch plateau, Central Utah and its implications for conglomerate correlation and detrital sources”

 

April 9             Thomas Hearon and Tyler Hannah, NMSU, Geological Sciences Graduate Students

“An outback odyssey: salt tectonics of the Willouran Ranges, South Australia”

 

April 16           Breanna Hennessy, NMSU, Geological Sciences Graduate Student

"Characterization of syn-depositional faulting of a composite Type B halokinetic sequence along the La Popa salt weld, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico"

 

April 23          AAPG Annual Meeting – No Colloquium

 

April 30           Amy Weislogel, University of Alabama

“Signature of collisional orogen unroofing: evidence from the Songpan-Ganzi turbidite complex, China”

 

May 7              Final Exam Week - No Colloquium