New Mexico State University Department of Geological Sciences Colloquium

Fall 2009

Regularly scheduled talks are held Wednesday (unless noted) at 4:00 PM in Room 189 Breland Hall (BD).

Please arrive at 3:45 PM for food, announcements, and to ensure a seat. E-mail geology@nmsu.edu or call

646-2708 for additional information.

Sept. 2 Faculty Research, Department of Geological Sciences, NMSU

Sept. 9 Stephen C. Hook (Atarque Geologic Consulting, Socorro, NM):

Bentonites and Boundaries: Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Upper

Cretaceous Tokay Tongue of the Mancos Shale

Sept. 16 Greg Mack (NMSU): Evolution of the Late Neogene Ridge Basin, southern California

Sept. 23 Nelia Dunbar (New Mexico Tech): Volcanic Ash in Antarctic Ice Sheets

and Ice Cores: Chronology and Correlation

Sept. 30 Rachelle A. Kernen (NMSU): Salt-Sediment Interaction of Patawarta

Diapir and Adjacent Wonoka Formation, Flinders Range, South Australia

Oct. 7 No Colloquium (New Mexico Geological Society Fall Field Conference)

Oct. 14 Jeffrey Amato (NMSU): Subduction Accretion and Subduction Erosion in

the Mesozoic Chugach Terrane, Alaska

Oct. 21 No Colloquium (Geological Society of American Meeting)

Oct. 28 Dennis W. Powers (Consulting Geologist): Preservation of Biomolecules

in Permian Salt

Nov. 4 Ryan Bright (NMSU): Proterozoic Magmatism in the American

Southwest: The Diabase Chronicles

Nov. 11 TBA

TH Nov. 19 Stephen T. Hasiotis (University of Kansas): Traces of Life on Land: Using

Trace Fossils to Interpret Biodiversity, Environment, Hydrology, Ecology, and Climate in

Continental Settings

Nov. 25 No Colloquium (Thanksgiving Holiday).

Dec. 2 Matt Jones (NMSU): Origin of Authigenic Opal/Carbonate Beds in Axial-

Fluvial Strata of the Pliocene-lower Pleistocene Camp Rice Formation, Rincon Hills, New Mexico