GLG 310/598 Structural Geology

Spring 1996 ASU Geology Colloquium Schedule

You are encouraged to attend as many of these lectures as possible

Room PSF 101 - 3:40-4:30 pm
Reception in Geology Museum at 3:15 pm

January 24, Super Bowl week (No Colloquium)

1. January 31, Mary Lou Zoback, USGS Menlo Park "Processes Responsible for Intraplate Seismicity" (Host: Jon Fink)

2. February 7, Barb Dutrow, Louisiana State Univ. "A Salty Tale: Dynamics and Implications of Doubly Diffusive Convecting Fluids in the Crust" (Peggy O'Day)

3. February 14, Bruce Runnegar, UCLA "Fauna, flora or failure? Developments in understanding the Ediacara fauna" (Paul Knauth)

4. February 21, David Hill, USGS Menlo Park "16 Years of Unrest in Long Valley Caldera: a Challenge for Science, the Media, and the Public" (Jon Fink)

5. February 28, Jane Selverstone, Univ. New Mexico "Fluid inclusion constraints on footwall uplift processes during crustal extension, eastern Alps" (Jon Fink)

- - March 5 (8pm) Robert Dietz Memorial Lecture - - Ken Macdonald (UCSB): "Exploring the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System"

6. March 6, Ken Macdonald, UC Santa Barbara "Dietz's Abyssal Hills Revisited" (Jon Fink)

March 13, Spring Break

March 20, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (No Colloquium)

7. March 27, Vince Realmuto, Jet Propulsion Lab "Multispectral imaging of volcanic sulfur dioxide plumes" (Jon Fink)

8. April 3, Dan Dzurisin, USGS Cascades Volcano Observ. "Science and Public Policy at Mount Rainier: New Approaches to Mitigating Volcano Hazards" (Stan Williams)

9. April 10, Suzanne Baldwin, Univ. of Arizona Thermochronology of cenozoic metamorphic core complexes (Steve Reynolds)

10. April 17, Brian Wernicke, Caltech "Deep crustal gravity currents" (Simon Peacock)

- - April 18 (8pm) Centennial/Dinofest Lecture - - Stephen J. Gould (Harvard)

11. April 24, Barbara Ransom, UCSD-Scripps Institution "Out of Chaos: Mixed layer clays and the new clay mineralogy" (Peggy O'Day)

12. May 1, Bernard Minster, UCSD-Scripps Institution "A methodology for assessing M8-class intermediate-term earthquake prediction algorithms" (Jon Fink)