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