AOES Geology Seminars Spring 2015

Geology Spring 2015

Seminars will take place at 4:30 pm in Exploratory Hall 3301. Note that all are on a Wednesday, except for the April 2 seminar, which is on a Thursday. Contact: John Singleton.

28-Jan: Bill Burton, USGS

“Searching for the fault: Geologic investigations in the epicentral region of the Aug. 23, 2011 Mineral, Virginia earthquake”

11-Feb: Scott Southworth, USGS

subject: the Blue Ridge

25-Feb: Carlos Peredo, MS candidate, GMU

An analysis of marine mammal generic diversity across major ocean regions across the Cenozoic

18-Mar: Jared Marske, Postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Institute

Tentative talk subject: geochemistry of Hawaiian basalts

2-Apr:Douglas Howard, USGS

talk subject: catastrophic outflow channels on Mars OR jokulhlaups on Iceland

15-Apr:GMU senior thesis presentations

J. Culpepper, S. Fabian, B. Nunez

general talk subjects: coastal geomorphology/stratigraphy of Assateague Island

29-Apr: GMU senior thesis presentations:

C. Green, J. Benefield, T. Vomocil

talk subjects: 3D strain across the Blue Ridge; Structural geology of ductile shear zones, Harcuvar Mtns., AZ; Brittle faulting in in the South Mtns., Phoenix

All talks are open to the public.