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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