Geological Sciences Colloquium Fall 2011

4:00 to 5:00 Gardiner Hall, Room 229

 

August 24       Geology Faculty Research

 

August 31       Jeffrey Amato (NMSU): How to survive graduate school.

 

September 7    Greg Mack (NMSU). Tectonics and sedimentation in central Greece.

 

September 14  Gary Axen (New Mexico Tech). The weak-fault paradox and slip on low-angle

normal faults.

 

September 21  Ron Broadhead (New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources).

Helium in New Mexico: Geologic distribution and exploration possibilities.

 

September 28 No Colloquium (NMGS Fall Field Conference).

 

October 5        Tara Jonell (NMSU). The Schoolhouse Rock; a tectonic tale from andesite to

rhyolite of the Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera, Mogollon-Datil Volcanic Field, New Mexico

 

October 12      No Colloquium (GSA National Meeting).

 

October 19      Scott Baldridge (Los Alamos National Lab). The role of upper mantle processes in

three phases of Cenozoic magmatism in the American Southwest.

 

October 26      Joint Colloquium with Department of Physics. Brandon Schmandt (University of

Oregon). Title TBA.

 

November 2    Peter Houde (Dept. Biology, NMSU). A Pliocene Gomphothere from the Binn

Quarry, southern New Mexico.

 

*November 10  Thursday (joint colloquium with Department of Physics). Craig Jones

(University of Colorado).  Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny.

 

November 16              Stephen Salyards (University of California at Los Angeles). Revisiting the 1907

photographic survey of the San Andreas fault on the Mojave segment.

 

November 23 No Colloquium (Thanksgiving Holiday).

 

November 30 Katherine Giles (NMSU): Salt tectonics in the Basque Pyrenees, Spain.

 

*Note (Thursday Colloquium)

 

 

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