State University of New York at Albany, Department of Geological Sciences

Geological Sciences Visiting Speaker Seminar Series

This seminar series was run continuously since 1975 for the enrichment of the graduate program in Geological Sciences, and the benefit of professional geoscientists in the New York Capital District. The series was started by Kevin Burke, one of many contributions he made to improve and sustain the Geological Sciences program at Albany while he was  Chairman from 1973-1983.
(from Spring 1995, run jointly with Geological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - continued list here)

list for 1975-1994

Fall 1994

August  26
Dr.  F.E.M. [Ted] Lilley
Australian National University
Magnetotellurics and Mohr circles
October 7
Dr.  Martin Casey
Geologisches Institut, E.T.H., Zurich
Cleavage development, finite strain, and folding in southern Sardinia
October 14
Dr. Zhang Guowei
and Dr. Meng Qingren

Northwestern University, PRC

Tectonic evolution and present 3-D framework of the Qinling, central China
October 21 Dr.  John Delano
SUNY Albany
Use of diffusion profiles in natural glasses to estimate temperature-time histories:(a) diffusive gain/loss of volatiles and (b) Soret diffusion
November 4
Dr.  Gregory Harper
SUNY Albany
 Structural extension at mid-ocean ridges based on ocean drilling and ophiolites
November 11

Dr.  Mike Gaffey
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Deep time: The asteroid record of the formation epoch
November 18
Dr.  Don Rodbell
Union College
Evidence from the tropical Andes for rapid climate change at the Pleistocene.Holocene boundary
December 2 Dr.  Jennifer Thomson
SUNY Albany
A mineralogically and chemically zoned coticule (spessartine quartzite) from the granulite facies, south-central Massachusetts
December 9

Dr. David Wark
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Using products of crystal-melt disequilibria to decipher complex magma evolution paths


Spring 1994

February 18 Dr. T.M. Kusky
Boston University
Tectonics of Archean greenstone belts: Slave Province, and Zimbabwe
February 25
Dr. C. Brett
University of Rochester
Sequence stratigraphy and evolutionary paleoecology, Middle Devonian, Appalachian basin
March 4
Dr.  K.D. Nelson
Syracuse University
INDEPTH I: reflection seismic results from southern Tibet
March 8

Dr.  M.R. Hempton
Shell Research, Houston
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Regional paleogeographic evolution of West Africa: implications for hydrocarbon exploration
April 22
Dr.  E. Bruce Watson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Behaviour of zircon in the crust: a close look at Earth history’s time capsule


Fall 1993

September  10
Dr.  Suzanne Kay
Cornell University
Arc and back-arc consequences of the collision of the Chile Rise, southern South America
September 24
Dr.  Steven Mackwell
Pennsylvania State University
Venus and Earth: Tectonic constraints due to mantle rheology
October 1
Dr.  Guy Smith
St. Louis University

Hydrothermal alteration and marine magnetic anomalies
October 8 Dr.  Bryan Hearn
University at Albany
The FTMS (Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer): or, What is that machine with the blinking lights at the end of the hallway?
Octobber 15
Dr.  Gregory Hirth
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
 The effect of melt on the rheology of upper mantle
October 29

Dr. Douglas Yule
California Institute of Technology
The architecture of oceanic-arc lithosphere: An example from the Oregon  Klamath Mountains
November 5
Dr.  Mark Brandon
Yale University
Cleavage formation by solution mass transfer at subduction zones: Implications for fluid flow
November 12 Dr.  Sherman Bloomer
Boston University
Structure and composition of Layer 3 at slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges
November 19

Dr.  Hans Schouten
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Edge-driven tectonics
December 3
Dr.  Charles Guidotti
University of Maine
Textural aspects of high T/low P polymetamorphism in the Rangeley area, western Maine: General implications for the study of Acadian metamorphic rocks in New England


Spring 1993

January 14 Dr.  S.E. Boyer
University of Washington
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Sequence of deformation and structural variation within thrust belts: implications for mechanical models and hydrocarbon exploration
February 5
Dr.  John Delano
SUNY Albany
The Origin of Life: a geochemist's view
February 12 Dr.  Ed Belt
Amherst College
Clastic diversion by topographic expression of thrust ridges and the development of widespread coal swamps in the central Appalachians
February 26
Dr. Lou Derry
Hartwick College
Evolution of the Himalaya viewed from the Bengal Fan
March 5
Dr.  Eric Eslinger
Alpha Earth Inc
A day in the life of an environmental geologist
March 8

Dr.  Richard Bopp
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sediment dating and contaminant chronologies in the New York area
March 19 Dr.  Simon Hanmer
GSC Ottawa
Spectacular fabrics, modest movements; damped intracontinental mylonite zones in the lower crust
March 26
Dr.  Jean Bedard
GSC Quebec
Synkinematic intrusion, hybridisation and assimilation in ophiolitic magma chambers, with examples from the Bay of Islands Ophiolite
April 2
Dr.  John Garver
Union College
Provenance evaluation using fission-track ages of detrital zircon and the geochemistry of sediment
April 16 Dr. John Grotzinger
MIT
Interacting Early Proterozoic foredeeps on a small Archean continent
April 20
Dr. Thomas Ryer
Aries Group Inc
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Multiple origins of clastic wedges in the western interior foreland basin - a stratigrapher's approach
April 30
Dr. Bill Ryan
LDGO
New results from mapping mid-ocean ridges and submarine canyons;
( also lunchtime talk - Noah's Ark and the flooding of the Black Sea)
May 4
Dr. Tim Gubbels
Cornell
High-level surfaces, plateau uplift, and foreland development, Bolivian central Andes


Fall 1992


August  28

August  31
September 2

September 4
Dr.  A. C. McLaren
Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University
Four research talks:
Deformation During a Solid-State Phase Transformation, and the Influence of an Externally Applied Axial Stress - Geophysical Implications
Microcline Twinning
Nanoscale Imaging, Diffraction, and Chemical Analysis using the Transmission Electron Microscope - Applications to Mineralogy and Geology
Microstructures of zircon and their Influence on Age Determination from Pb/U Ratios measured by the Ion Microprobe
September  11
Dr.  Peter J.N. Renders
SUNY Albany
The examination of coal tar contamination with a view to remediation: Saratoga Springs, New York
September 18
Dr.  John Jones
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston
Experimental constraints on the origins of asteroidal basalts
October 2
Dr.  David Walker
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory

Why can't the mantle see the core?
October 13 Dr.  E. Roedder
Harvard University
Radioactive waste: where can we put it?
Octobber 22
Dr.  John F. Dewey
Oxford University
Displacement and strain partitioning in plate boundary zones
October 30

Dr.  W. D. Means
 and Mr. Y. D. Park
SUNY Albany
Observations of microstructural history in a crystal-melt system
November 6
Dr.  Alexandra Moore
Hartwick College
Coupled extension and uplift in the Central Andes: implications for regional uplift history
November 13 Dr.  David Wark
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Disequilibrium crystal-melt reaction products in hydrid (?) igneous rocks
November 20

Dr.  Yildirim Dilek
Vassar College
Mesozoic tectonics of the Tauride Belt, southern Turkey, and implications for NeoTethyan Paleogeography
December 4
Drs. Jack and Mariette Henderson
Geological Survey of Canada
Structure and stratigraphic relations in the Northern Slave Province, Northwest Territories, Canada


Spring 1992

March 6
Dr.  John Delano
SUNY Albany
Geochemistry of Ordovician sedimentary rocks in eastern New York and western Vermont: tectonic implications
March 13
Dr.  Mary Roden
SUNY Albany
Tectonothermal history of Triassic-Jurassic rift basins of the eastern U.S. using fission track analysi
March 20
Dr.  Tim Grove
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Melt generation and modification beneath ocean floor spreading centers
April 3

Dr.  J. Hull
SUNY Albany
Dept of  Geography
Shortening and extension in the orogenic hinterland, Norwegian Caledonides
April 24
Dr.  G. McGill
University of Massachusetts  Amherst
The Tectonics of Venus (Venus through the Eyes of Magellan)
May 1
Dr.  Francis Wu
SUNY Binghamton
Seismic Array Studies of the Tibetan Plateau


Fall 1991

September  13
Dr.  Terry L. Spell
SUNY Albany
The Evolution of Plio-Pleistocene silicic magmatism in the Jemez Volcanic field and Valles Caldera Complex, New Mexico: Geochronologic, isotopic and geochemical constraints
September 20
Dr.  Peter Renders
SUNY Albany
The Education of an Experimentalist and Why We Need Them
September 27
Dr.  Robert Tracy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute

New perspectives on the tectonomagmatic evolution of southern New England
October 4 Dr.  Charles Mitchell
SUNY Buffalo
Development and possible tectonic origin of the Sebree Trough: a middle Ordovician intra-cratonic basin
October 11
Dr.  Donald Francis
McGill University
 Interaction between upper crust and the picritic magmas of the Muskox intrusion
October 18

Dr.  John Bursnall
St. Lawrence University
Deep ancient crust of the Kapuskasing zone in northern Ontario, and how it got to the surface
November 1
Dr.  David Pollard
Stanford University
How stiff and how strong is the Earth's crust?
November 8
Dr.  Harry McSween
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Chondritic meteorites and the evolution of planets
November 14

Dr.  Harry Green
University of California, Davis
Experimental Evidence bearing on the origin of deep focus earthquakes
November 22
Dr.  James Pindell
Dartmouth College
Eustatic sea level measured from Cretaceous passive margin stratigraphy in Venezuela
December 6
Dr. William Bosworth
Chief Geologist, Marathon Petroleum, Egypt
Rifting in Africa and the Middle East -- Examples and Synthesis


Spring 1991

February 22
Dr.  Frank Spear
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Metamorphism and thermal evolution of central New England
March 1
Dr.  Scott Samson
Syracuse University
Accreted terranes in the Canadian Cordillera: Nd isotopic evidence of Phanerozoic crustal genesis
March 8

Dr.  Dan Karig
Cornell University
Suture Zones
March 15 Dr.  George Putman
SUNY Albany
PCB's in the Hudson River; a geologist's view
March 18
Dr.  Mark A. Doyle
Royal Dutch Shell, The Netherlands
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Stratigraphic modelling of sedimentary basins
April 5
Dr.  Ed Landing
New York State Geological Survey
The meaning of the PreCambrian-Cambrian boundary and the appearance of animals
April 12 Dr.  Roger Buck
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
How weak do low angle normal faults have to be?
April 19
Dr.  Tim Lowenstein
SUNY Binghamton
Modern non-marine evaporites from the Qaidam basin, western China: parent waters, the potash evaporite problem, and palaeoclimates
April 26
Dr.  Peter Thomas
Cornell University
Topography, tides, and craters: life on a small planet
May 3
Dr.  Bill Kidd
SUNY Albany
Normal faulting in the outer trench slope of collisional orogens


Fall 1990

September  14
Dr.  Judith Hannah
University of Vermont
Magmatic History and Mineralization in the East Tintic Mountains, Utah
September 21
Dr.  Alexander Gates
New York State Geological Survey
Alleghanian Transpression in the Appalachians
September 28
Dr.  M. Brian Bayly
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Effect of Fluids on the Mobility of the Crust: a view from the back of the envelope
October 5 Dr.  Steven Haggerty
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Diamonds and Xenoliths from the Transition Zone
October 19
Dr.  Robert Dineen
Roy F. Weston, Inc
Consulting is Science Too
October 26

Dr.  Christopher Scholz
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Problems in the Growth and Development of Faults
November 2
Dr.  M. Darby Dyar
University of Oregon
Metasomatic Oxidation of Upper Mantle Peridotite: The Xenoliths' Story
November 9
Dr.  Brian Evans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pressure Solution: attempts at pertinent experiments
November 16

Dr.  Jane Gilotti
New York State Geological Survey
A new tectonic model for the central Scandinavian Caledonides
November 30
Dr.  Win Means
SUNY Albany
Microstructures in Magma Chambers
December 6
Dr. John Delano
SUNY Albany
Experimental data on the behavior of Cr in basaltic systems


Spring 1990

February 1
Dr.  Richard H. Groshong
Univ. of Alabama
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Style and Balance of Extensional Structures
February 9
Dr.  Gregory Harper
SUNY Albany
1990 Field Trip to Oman Ophiolite
March 2
Dr.  David O'Handley
Royal Ontario Museum
Evidence for Deuterium Exchange without Recrystallization, Lizardite-Chrysotile System
March 23

Dr.  Peter Goodwin
Temple University
Punctuated Aggradational Cycles: Implications for Stratigraphic Analysis
March 30 Dr.  Lincoln Hollister
Princeton University
Role of Melt in the Tectono-Metamorphic Evolution of the Coast Crystalline Complex, British Columbia and Alaska
April 6 Dr.  Steven Roecker
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Velocity Structures of Taiwan: Anatomy of a continental collision
April 20
Dr.  James Franklin
Geologic Survey of Canada, Ottawa
Hydrothermal systems: Relationship to Ancient Massive Sulfide Deposits
April 27
Dr.  William Ruddiman
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Late Cenozoic Plateau Uplift and Climate Change
May 4
Dr.  Peter Kellerman
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Reaction Between Basaltic Magma and Upper Mantle Wall Rock


Fall 1989

September  29
Dr.  Malcolm Rutherford
Brown University
Magma chamber conditions and eruption of calc-alkaline volcanoes: An experimental approach
October 6
Dr.  Michael Gaffey
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Constraints on the Nature of the Early Earth from Studies of Asteroids
October 20
Dr.  Gregory Harper
SUNY at Albany

The kinematics and timing of deformation associated with emplacement of the Josephine Ophiolite: death of a short-lived back-arc basin
October 27 Dr.  Herbert Wang
University of Wisconsin
Flexural Modeling of the Midcontinent Rift
November 3
Dr.  Thomas Donnelly
SUNY at Binghamton
Cenozoic History of Biogenic Silica in the Ocean: Implications for Plate Tectonics
November 17

Dr.  John Longhi
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Bulk Composition and Internal Structure of Mars
December 1
Dr.  John Cisne
Cornell University
TBA
December 15
Dr.  Kevin T. Biddle
Exxon, Houston
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Basin Evolution Along Active Transform Margin: Los Angeles Basin


Spring 1989

January 20
Dr.  John Delano
SUNYA
Buoyancy-driven melt segregation: implications for the Moon and planets
January 26
Dr.  Rick Law
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Uses of microstructure and crystallographic fabric as kinematic indicators: examples from the Moine and Western Brittany
February 1
Dr.  W. Kenneth Hamblin
Brigham Young University
Plate tectonics and the evolution of major river systems
February 3

Dr.  Jonathan Lees
University of Washington
Tomographic imaging of local earthquake delay times for 3-D velocity variation in Western Washington
February 10 Dr.  George Shaw
Union College
Modelling geologic processes: Can we learn anything? Two very different examples: Continental growth and fluvial drainage development
February 24 Dr.  Fred Chester
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Dynamic recrystallization in semi-brittle faults
March 3
Dr.  Win Means
SUNYA
Stretching faults (or stretching credulity?)
March 10
Dr.  Rob McCaffrey
RPI
Evolution of arc-continent collision - observations from Indonesia and New Guinea
March 31
Dr. Ray Hetcher
Texas A. and M. University
Internal structures of mountain belts
April 7 Dr.  Clark Burchfiel
MIT
Contemporaneous-Miocene, north-south shortening and extension in the High Himalaya
April 14
Dr.  Cathy Cashman
Princeton University
Plagioclase crystallization from a silicic melt: a natural experiment
May 5
Dr.  Danny Rye
Yale University
Large-scale fluid flow in the Earth's Crust


Fall 1988

September  23
Dr.  William Power
Brown University
Roughness of natural rock surfaces and implications for the evolution of natural fault zones
September 30
Dr.  Greg Harper
SUNY at Albany
Oceanic faulting and sub-sea floor metamorphism
October 7
Dr.  Scott McLennan
SUNY at Stony Brook

Geochemistry of deep-sea turbidites
October 14 Dr.  Roger Anderson
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Geochemical logging and fluid and mass fluxes in oceanic and continental crust
October 21
Dr.  Robert Detrick
University of Rhode Island
Seismic images of the oceanic crust
November 11

Dr.  Richard Allmendinger
Cornell University
A sampler of late Cenozoic Andean tectonics
November 18
Dr.  Edmond Mathez
American Museum of Natural History
Evolution of the volatile fluid during crystallization of Stillwater and Bushveld magmas
Decvember 2
Dr.  Nicholas Christie-Blick
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Late Proterozoic rifting and sequence stratigraphy in the western U.S. and some ideas on sea-level change


Spring 1988

January 29
Dr.  T. Mark Harrison
SUNY at Albany
Ascent of Crustal Magmas
February 5
Dr.  Peter Zeitler
Lehigh University
Geochronology of the NW Himalayas
February 12

Dr.  Kip Hodges
MIT
Controlling Factors of the Thermal Evolution of the Central Himalayas
February 19 Dr.  Jack Casey
University of Houston
The Nature of Primary Magmas in the Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex
February 26 Dr.  Bruce Watson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wetting characteristics of fluids in rocks and their significance to fluid transport and host rock physical properties

March 18
Dr.  Stephen DeLong
SUNY at Albany
Complementary trace element fractionation in ocean floor basalts and gabbros
March 25
Dr.  Peter Robinson
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
TBA
April 8
Dr.  James Cochran
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Himalayan tectonics as recorded in Bay of Bengal sediments
April 22
Dr.  Don Baker
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Diffusion in Melts and Implications to Stuff
April 29
Dr.  Kathy Crane
Hunter College
Thermal evolution of sheared continental margins (e.g., Spitzbergen shear zone)
May 10 Dr.  Robert Hill
Australian National University
The origin of Archean granite-greenstone terrains, and the heat source for regional metamorphism and anatexis
May 13
Dr.  Mike Etheridge
Bureau of Mineral Resources Canberra, Australia
Transfer Faulting in Extensional Terranes


Fall 1987

August 31 Dr.  A. Ord
CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
and Dr.  B.E. Hobbs
Development of Deformation Textures in Geological Materials

Computer Modelling of Microfabric Development in Polycrystalline Aggregates
September  18
Dr.  Win  Means
SUNY Albany
Retrodeformation, Experimental Porphyroblasts, and Stress Measurement in Synkinematic Microscopy

September 21
Dr.  Sun Yiyin
Acadmia Sinica, Beijing
Tibet and some aspects of its geology
October 2
Dr.  C.E. Jacobsen
Iowa State University

Tectonic Significance of the Pelona Schist and Vincent Thrust, California
October 9 Dr.  S.K. Ghosh
Jadavpur University
Structural Significance of Boudinage
October 15
Dr.  S.M. Awramick
U.C. Santa Barbara
Stromatolites, Heliotropism, and the Number of days in the Proterozoic year
October 23

Dr.  J. Bowman
University of Utah
Isotopic Evolution of Hydrothermal Fluids involved in Alteration and Metasomatism in the Crust: The roles of rock-water exchange, water/rock ratio, and exchange pathlines
October 30
Dr.  S.A. Morse
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cumulates, Crusts, and Cores
November 6
Dr.  M. Williams
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Proterozoic Ortega terrane of northern New Mexica: Heterogeneous deformation and homogeneous metamorphism
November 13

Dr.  George Putman
SUNY Albany
Fractionation in granitic rocks: Fact or fancy?
November 20
Dr. John Delano
and Dr. Bill Kidd
SUNY Albany
Geochemistry of shales and bentonites in the Taconics of eastern New York
December 4
Dr.  J. McLelland
Colgate University
Aspects of the early igneous metamorphic history of the Adirondacks
December 11
Dr.  T. Harms
Amherst College
The Sylvester allochthon of northern British Columbia: Emplacement of an exotic oceanic thrust


Spring 1987

January 28
Dr.  Chris Wilson
University of Melbourne
Recent structural studies in the granulites of east Antarctica
January 30
Dr.  T. Mark Harrison
SUNY Albany
The timing and time-scale of geological processes at the thin-section scale
February 6

Dr.  Peter L.K. Knuepfer
SUNY at Binghamton
Non-uniform Holocene slip rates across a plate boundary, New Zealand
February 13 Dr.  C.E. Lesher
Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory
Thermal diffusion in magma: Experimental constraints and petrological ramifications
February 20 Dr.  Kurt T. Hollocher
Union College
Petrology and geochemistry of Ordovician and pre-Ordovician rocks in central Massachusetts

February 27
Dr.  Claude T. Herzberg
Rutgers University
Internal structure of the earth: Constraints from melting experiments to 250 kbar
March 13
Dr.  David M. Christie
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Propagating rifts: Up-close and ugly
March 20
Dr.  Urs Scharer
Universite du Quebec
Age and tectonic significance of Himalayan granites
March 27
Dr.  Terry Engelder
Pennsylvania State University
The relation between hydraulic stress measurements near South Canisteo, New York and Appalachian Plateau tectonics
April 2
Dr.  William R. Normark
U.S.G.S., Menlo Park
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer

Modern turbidite systems: Model limitations and concepts for comparing fan systems
April 10 Dr.  Frank M. Richter
University of Chicago
Dynamical models of melt segregation
April 23
Dr.  David K. Larue
Stanford University
Tectonic Erosion and Accretion in Trenches
May 1
Dr.  Cathryn R. Newton
Syracuse University
Paleoecology of the Triassic mass extinction in the North American Cordillera


Fall 1986

September  18
Dr.  Paul Hancock
University of Bristol
Active Faulting

September 21
Dr.  Matt Heizler
SUNY Albany
Applications to 4OAr/39Ar geochronology: Several case histories
October 2
Dr.  Clifford Thurber
SUNY at Stony Brook

Kilauea Volcano: Structure, Seismicity and Stress
October 9 Dr.  Christopher Wilson
University of Melbourne
Dynamic processes in the shear of ice and application as a rock analog
October 15
Mr.  Michael Patenaude
Templeton Industries
Sole Detachment Structures, Western New York, and Hydrocarbon Potential
October 23

Dr.  John Reid
Hampshire College
Large Scale and Small Scale Magma Mixing in the Sierra Nevada Batholith
October 30
Dr.  John Bird
Cornell University
TBA
November 6
Dr.  Philip Whitney
New York State Geological Survey
TBA
November 13

Dr.  Gary Lash
SUNY-Fredonia
Geochemistry of Sediments and Volcanics in the Taconic Hamburg Klippe
November 20
Dr. Greg Harper
SUNY Albany
Hydrothermal Metamorphism of the Josephine Ophiolite
December 4
Dr.  John Delano
SUNY Albany
Sedimentary geochemistry
December 11
Dr.  Bill Kidd
SUNY Albany
Tibetan Smorgasbord 


Spring 1986

February 14

Dr.  Wayne Sawka
SUNY Albany/ANU
Evolution of compositionally zoned plutons in the Sierra Nevada batholith
February 21 Dr.  George Putman
SUNY Albany
Saratoga-type carbonated waters: A backyard geologic enigma
February 28 Dr.  David Kimbrough
UC Santa Barbara
Paleogeographic significance of the Middle Jurassic ophiolite/arc terrane at Cedros Island, Baja
California Sur
and
Isotopic investigations of an exposed cross-section of continental crust in Fjordland, South Island, New Zealand

March 7
Dr.  Carlton Brett
University of Rochester
Cyclic and episodic deposition in a stratified basin: Dynamic stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group
March 21
Dr.  Daniel Karig
Cornell University
Deformation in accretionary prisms: Evidence from the southwest Japan Arc
April 4
Dr.  Charles Langmuir
Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory
Oxygen fugacity and magmatic evolution
April 11
Dr.  Richard Arculus
University of Michigan
New concepts of arc magma genesis
April 18
Dr.  Terry Tullis
Brown University
Rock Friction and Earthquakes
May 2
Dr.  James Wright
Stanford University
Geochronology and tectonics of the Western Cordillera


Fall 1985

September  13
Dr. Donald H. Lindsley
SUNY at Stony Brook
The Anorthosite-Syenite Association: What the Laramie Anorthosite can tell us about an Old Petrogenetic Conundrum

September 20
Dr.  Cynthia Evans
Colgate University
Different Kinds of Oceanic Crust -- Evidence from the Zambales Ophiolite, Philippines
September 27
Dr.  Peter Plumley
Syracuse University

New Paleomagnetic results from southern Alaska
October 4 Dr.  Dave Harding
Cornell University
Mantle flow structures of the Josephine Peridotite
October 11
Dr.  Wayne Sawka
SUNY at Albany
TBA
October 18

Dr.  Kevin Furlong
Penn State University
Thermnl considerations in the Evolution of the continental Lithosphere
October 25
Dr. Alistair Robertson
University of Edinburgh
Tectonic Evolution of the Tethys
November 15
Dr. Bruce Marsh
Johns Hopkins University
Convection and Crystallization in Magma
November 22

Dr.  Henry Dick
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst
Mineralogy and Variability of the Uppermost Abyssal Mantle
December 6
Dr. Gautam Mitra
University of Rochester
Brittle and Ductile Fault Rocks
December 11
Dr.  Alfred M. Ziegler
University of Chicago
A.A.P.G. Distinguished Lecturer

Paleogeographic Evolution of China
December 13
Dr.   John Ferry
Johns Hopkins University
Metamorphic hydrology at 13 km depth and 400-550°C


Spring 1985

February 1

Dr.  Steven Bohlen
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook
The tectonic significance of pressure-temperaturetime paths of granulites
February 8 Dr.  Jeffrey Karson
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Faulting on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
February 15 Dr. Fred Vollmer
S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz
Fold and nappe development in the northern Dovrefjell, Norway

March 1
Dr.  Ken Eriksson
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Early PreCambrian sedimentation styles in South Africa and Australia: implications for crustal evolution
March 8 Dr. Theresa Jordan
Cornell University
Neogene Tectonics in the Andes: the flat-subduction segment of Central Argentina, and Chile
March 22
Dr.  H. Helmstaedt
Queens University
An Archean sea-floor spreading complex in the Yellowknife Greenstone belt, Slave Province, Canada
March 29
Dr. A. Davidson
Geological Survey of Canada
Ductile deformation and development of the Grenville Orogen
April 2
Dr. Erle G. Kauffman
University of Colorado, Boulder
A.A.P.G. Distinguished Lecturer

Dynamics of Cretaceous epicontinental seas
April 12 Dr. J. Delano
SUNY at Albany
Secular variations in the earth's mantle since the Archean
April 19 Dr. G. Hanson
SUNY at Stony Brook
Granitic rocks of mantle origin
April 26 Dr. P. Molnar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Structure and Tectonics of the Himalaya
May 3
Dr.  K. Kimball
SUNY at Albany
High-temperature alteration of abyssal ultramafics: petrographic and isotopic evidence for deep hydrothermal circulation


  Fall 1984

September  14
Dr. Nick Arndt
Max-Planck Institut-Mainz
China syndrome Komatiites: Geochemical and petrological evidence for thermal erosion
September 20
Dr.  Rein Tirrul
and Dr. Paul Hoffman
Geological Survey of Canada
Three contrasting styles of crustal shortening involving a Proterozoic continental margin, N.W.T., Canada

Assembly and growth of the North American craton in Proterozoic time
October 5
Dr.  Calvin Miller
Vanderbilt University

Are strongly peraluminous igneous rocks derived from pelitic sources?
October 8 Dr.  Andrew Siddons
Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Structural studies in the western Alps
October 19
Dr. Ian Duddy
University of Melbourne and R.Y.I.
Application of fission track thermochronology to sedimentary basins
October 23

Dr.  Ron Vernon
Maquarie University
The origin of xenoliths in granite
October 26
Dr. Stephen Marshak
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain
Structure and tectonics of the Hudson Valley fold and thrust belt
November 2
Dr.  Paul Morgan
Purdue University
Archean heat flow
November 16

Dr. Charlotte Schrieber
Queens College CUNY
Evaporites and Oil
November 19
Dr. Warren Sharp
SUNY at Stony Brook
Some aspects of Mesozoic continental growth in California
November 30
Dr.  Greg Harper
SUNY at Albany
Tectonic evolution of slow spreading ridges
December 7
Dr.  John Berkley
SUNY at Fredonia
The nature and origin of Ureilites


Spring 1984

January 10

Dr.  C. Ferguson
Kansas Geol. Survey
101 Uses for a dead Belemnite (and other Tectonic Tales)
February 10 Dr. 
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February 17 Dr.
S
F

March 2
Dr. Akiho Miyashiro
SUNY at Albany
Progressive mineralogical changes and chemical reactions in low-grade pelitic schists
March 9 Dr. B. Nisbet
Geoscience Field Surveys, Australia
Conceptual aspects of mineral exploration and a proposal for locating Olympic-Dam type mineralization in Australia
March 12
Dr. Frank Spear
MIT
Metamorphic P-T paths and their tectonic implications
March 19 Dr. G. Harper
University of Utah
A Jurassic back-arc basin in northern California and implications for the tectonic evolution of western North America
March 23
Dr. Paul Karabinos
Williams College
Deformation in the Green Mountains, Southern Vermont
March 30
Dr. Tim Byrne
Brown University
Deformation regimes and mechanisms in accretionary prisms, evidence from Kodiak Island, Alaska
April 6
Dr.  Howard Day
University of California - Davis
Structural and metamorphic evolution of a core complex, Death Valley, California
April 27
Dr. W.D. Means
SUNY Albany
The 1979 Abbotsford (New Zealand) Landslide'.'photos and droll commentary by D.S. Coombs and R.N. Norris, University of Otago (presented by W.D. Means)

May 4 Dr. W. Bosworth
Colgate University
Emplacement histories of obducted continental margins: some new thoughts about western Newfoundland
May 11
Dr.  Steve Goldstein
Cambridge University
Neodymium isotopes of atmospheric dust and river and eolian particulate matter: Implications for the age and evolution of the continental crust


  Fall 1983

September  13
Dr. Graham Bishop
New Zealand Geological Survey
Structural and metamorphic expression of some possible suture zones in Southern New Zealand
September 23
Dr. Ian McDougall
Australian National University
Dating hominid evolution in East Africa: Resolution of the KBS tuff controversy
September 30
Dr. K. Douglas Nelson
Cornell University

Recent COCORP seismic reflection results from the western U.S.
October 7 Dr. Edward C. Beutner
Franklin and Marshall College
Kinematic clues from syntectonic fibers
October 14
Dr. John W. Delano
SUNY at Albany
Oxidation state of the Earth's upper mantle: Implications for the early atmosphere and core formation
October 21

Dr.  Paul J. Fox
University of Rhode Island
High-resolution tectonlc investigation of the crest of the East Pacific Rise
October 28
Dr. William Haxby
Lamont-Doherty Geological  Observatory
The impact of satellite altimeter data on marine geophysics
November 11
Dr.  X
SUNY at Albany
Three recent acquisitions in the SUNYA Film Library:
''Fire Under the Sea'' (J. Moore - USGS)
''Waves'' (W. Munk - Scripps)
''Apollo 17: 0n the shoulder of giants'' (NASA)
November 18

Dr. Robin Brett
U.S. Geological Survey
Intrinsic fO2  measurements on some meteorites and the redox state of the meteorite parent body
November 23
Dr. J. W. Delano
SUNY at Albany
The Moon: a post-Apollo view
Four samples of lunar rock will be available for inspection and discussion
December 2
Dr.  Robert H. Kay
Cornell University
Crustal growth and recycling at island arcs
December 9
Dr. Alan Zindler
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Mantle differentiation and crustal growth: An isotopic viewpoint


Spring 1983

February 4

Dr.  John Delano
SUNY at Albany
Tektites: prospects for their use in planetary exploration and paleontology
February 11 Dr.  David Walker
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
The early history of the Earth from the Moona meteorites, and Archean volcanics
February 18 Dr. Declan de Paor
University College Galway
Review of orientation nets in geology

February 25
Dr. Mark Harrison
SUNY at Albany
Things that I do
March 4 Dr. Chester Langway
SUNY at Buffalo
The paleoenvironmental record in the Greenland ice sheet
March 11
Dr. Roger Bilham
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Stress-strain relationships in time and place on a tectonically-active but elastically-imperfect surface
March 18 Dr. Win Means
SUNY at Albany
Recrystallization flow in solids: mechanisms, microstructural, and lattice preferred orientations
April 8
Dr.  Brian Wernicke
Syracuse University
Extensional Allochthons
April 22
Dr. Edward Landing
New York State Geological Survey
and SUNY at Albany
Cambro/Ordovician extinction: Sedimentary events without asteroids
April 29 Dr. Walter Mitronovas
New York State Geological Survey
and SUNY at Albany
Some problems on seismotectonics the Northeast
May 4
Dr.  Arthur G. Sylvester
University of California at Santa Barbara
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer

Wrench fault tectonics


  Fall 1982

September  10
Dr. Charles Guidotti
University of Maine at Orono
Multiple Acadian metamorphic events in Maine and adjacent parts of New England
September 17
Dr. Roger Mason
University of London
TBA
September 24
Dr. John Delano
SUNY at Albany
Exploration of deep planetary interiors by experimental petrology: concepts and an example
October 1 Mr. Peter Zeitler
Dartmouth College
Rapid cooling history of the Coast Mountain region, northern Pakistan
October 8
Dr. Maarten DeWit
Queens University
New field observations in an o1d greenstone belt -- Barberton,  South Africa
October 15

Dr.  Nobu Shimuzu
MIT
Crystallization kinetics and trace element distribution in igneous rocks
October 29
Dr. Bruce Watson
RPI
Experimental studies bearing upon the evolution of magmas
November 5
Dr.  John Dickey
Syracuse University
Carbon in the mantle
November 12

Dr. Bob Fleischer
General Electric Co.
and SUNY A1bany

Radon
November 19
Dr. Phil England
Harvard University
Some considerations of the dynamics of large scale continental deformation
December 3
Dr.  Fouad Tera
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Inferences from Pb isotopes concerning the sources of terrestrial magmas


Spring 1982

February 5

Dr.  Harry Bradbury
Yale University
Diffusional creep in low grade rocks -- aspects and approaches
February 12 Dr.  Peter Watt
RPI
Shock compression studies of Lunar basalts and implications for impact cratering
February 19 Dr. John Bridge
SUNY Binghamton
The Catskill Facies counterparts in southwest Ireland

March 5
Dr. Mark Kurz
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Helium isotope systematics of ocean floor rocks: implications for mantle evolution
March 19 Dr. Francis Wu
SUNY Binghamton
The Tancheng-Lujiang fault of eastern China: An Active major strike-slip fault
March 30
R.P.I. Communications Center, Room 324
Dr. James W. Monger
Geol. Survey of Canada
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Stratigraphic evolution of the North American Cordillera
April 2 Dr. Herman Zimmerman
Union College
Quaternary Sediments of the North Atlantic
April 5
Dr. Wang Dezi
Nanjing University
Granite rocks and their related metallogenesis in southeastern China
April 16
Dr. Charles Onasch
Univ. of Maryland
Cleavages in sandstones of the Martinsburg Formation
April 23
Dr.  Daniel J. Fornari
SUNY at Albany
Ridge-Transform Tectonics: Magmatic Consequences of Attempted Propagation of the Galapagos Rift across the Inca Transform
April 30
Dr. Carol Simpson
Brown University
Sense-of-shear indicators in shear zones
May 7
Mr.  Gary Nottis
New York State Geological Survey
Documentation of Historical Earthquakes: August 10, 1884 New York City Earthquake


  Fall 1981

September  11
Dr. John Cisne
Cornell University
Topography and tectonics of the Taconic outer trench slope as revealed through gradient analysis of fossil assemblages
September 18
Dr. Jay Melosh
SUNY at Stony Brook
Very large impact basins and the early evolution of planetary lithospheres
September 25
Dr. Rolfe Stanley
University of Vermont

The Geology of Taiwan
October 2 Dr. Peter Robinson
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
The Bronson Hill Terrane: its position in the Taconic and Acadian orogenies
October 9
Dr. John Edmond
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemistry of hot springs on the East Pacific Rise at 21° N
October 23

Dr.  Cliff Ando
Cornell University
Crustal geometry of the Appalachian Orogen from seismic reflection studies
October 30
Dr. Dick Flood
Macquarie University
The major subdivisions of the New England (Australia) batholith and the criteria for recognizing I and S-type granites
November 4
Dr.  M. T. Bickle
University of Western Australia, Perth
Diapirism: consequence of a horizontal tectonic regime in the Pilbara Archean?
November 19

Dr. R. P. George
Exxon Production Research
Nature of the petrological Moho at the Troodos Ophiolite
November 23
Dr. E-an Zen
U.S.G.S. Reston
Petrogenesis of the Pioneer Batholith and its tectonic framework
December 4
Dr. Dick Grieve
Earth Physics Branch EMR Ottawa
Hypervelocity impact cratering on earth: geologic implications


Spring 1981

January 30

Dr.  W. McCann
Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory
Tectonics and seismlc potential of the northeast Caribbean
February 6 Dr.  R. Dineen
NYS Geological Survey
Geology of selected archaeological sites in eastern New York
February 13 Dr. T.W. Donnelly
SUNY Binghamton
Motagua suture zone of eastern Guatemala

February 20
Dr. Kevin Burke
SUNY Albany
A traverse across the Yarlung-Dzangpo suture zone in Tibet
February27 Dr. Ian Dalziell
Columbia University
Cordillera Darwin: a South American cordilleran core-complex
March 6
Dr. Leigh Royden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transform faulting, extension and subduction in the Carpathian reglon
March 20
Dr. Bernhard Sporli
Auckland University
Sedimentation and Structural Development in Strike-slip Basins, New Zealand
April 3
Dr. Dave Kohlstedt
Cornell University
TBA
April 16
Dr. Yngvar Isachsen
NYS Geological Survey
Adirondack fault zones
April 23
Dr. Jack Bird
Cornell University
Problems of origin of some terrestrial metals
May 8
Dr.  John F. Dewey
SUNY Albany
and Durham University, UK

Plate tectonic history of the British Islands


  Fall 1980

September  19
Dr. John F. Dewey
SUNY Albany
Origin and evolution of the continents
September 22
Dr. C. Tapscott
Exxon Production Research, Houston
Thermal history of rifted continental margins
October 3 Dr. Roger Waller
U.S.G.S Albany
Ground water potential in the Capital District
October 10
Dr. Ed Boyle
MIT
Chemistry of marine sediments and microfossils
October 17

Dr.  Barry Doolan
University of Vermont
Geologic setting and tectonic stratigraphy of the Vermont-Quebec ultramafic belt
October 24
Dr. Walter Pitman
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Geomorphic evolution of mountain belts and peneplains; a quantitative approach
October 31
Dr.  Elaine Padovani
MIT
Physical and chemical properties of the lower continental crust in different tectonic settings: evidence from xenoliths
November 11

Dr. Colin Barker
University of Tulsa
A.A.P.G. Distinguished Lecturer
Plate tectonics, organic matter and basin evaluation for petroleum potential
November 14
Dr. John Bender
SUNY Albany
The petrogenesis of the Cortlandt Complex : evidence of large scale liquid immiscibility
December 5
Dr.  Kim D. Klitgord
U.S.G.S. Woods Hole
Mesozoic evolution of tbe Atlantic: implications for the U.S. Atlantic continental margin structure
December 12
Dr. Bob Kay
Cornell University
Trace element geochemistry of Aleutian arc rocks


Spring 1980

February 8 Dr.  Ide Van der Molen
Cornell University
Experiments on deformation of partially melted rocks
February 29
Dr. Anthony Philpotts
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic magmas: half a century of petrologic misconception
March 7 Dr. Margaret Winslow
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Tectonics of the fold and thrust belt in southernmost Andes
March 21
Dr.  D. Gray
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Cleavage and strain associated with transected folds
April 1
Dr.  F. Spear
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phase equilibria in amphiboles
April 18
Dr. E.G. Bombolakis
Boston College
The Hartford dike slide: gravity-related sliding on a horizontal surface
May 2
Dr. N. Toksoz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Crustal structure of Iran and eastern Turkey


  Fall 1979

September  7
Dr. Bradford Hager
SUNY Stony Brook
Mantle flow driven by plates
September 28
Dr. Paul Hoffman
Geological Survey of Canada
Wilson Cycle of early Proterozoic age in the Canadian Shield
October 12 Dr. Wallace Broecker
Columbia University
The Global CO2 budget
October 19
Dr. James Thompson
Harvard University
Thermodynamics and metamorphic facies in mafic rocks
October 26

Dr.  Tony Watts
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Lithosphere flexure, gravity anomalies and the evolution of the Pacific Ocean Basin
November 2
Dr.  William Bassett
Cornell University
The diamond cell and the nature of the mantle
November 16

Dr. Jan Tullis
Brown University
Deformation of the crust as seen from experiments
November 30
Dr. James Cochran
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Early history of rifted continental margins
December 7
Dr.  John Rodgers
Yale University
Mountain ranges in the Soviet Union


Spring 1979

January 26
Dr. Kevin Burke
and
Dr.  William Kidd
SUNY Albany
The Hercynian of Europe

By Jaguar to Lizard!
February 2 Dr.  Andrew Hynes
McGill University
Cape Smith foldbelt, Ungava, Quebec; constraints on its origin
February 9 Dr. Don Elthon
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
The origin and evolution of ocean floor basalts: the ophiolite perspective

February 16 Dr. Frederick Taylor
Cornell University
Island arc tectonics: the record from emerged coral reefs
February 23 Dr. Bruce Hobbs
Monash University
The effect of pressure on the deformation of rocks
March 9
Dr. Walter Snyder
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Plate tectonics and ore deposits - western US
March 16 Dr. Gerard Bond
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Sea-level changes and vertical movements of large magnitude in continental platforms
March 23
Dr. V.E. Khain
Moscow State University
Structure and evolution of the Uralo-Okhotsk fold belt
March 30
Dr. Tom Davies
Middlebury College
Estimates of oceanic sedimentation rates
April 20
Dr.  Robert .F. Giegengack
University of Pennsylvania
Morphostratigraphy and neotectonics of the Andes of Venezuela
April 27
Dr. Dan Karig
Cornell University
Structure and evolution of the Sunda Arc off southwest Sumatra
May 11
Dr.  Don Forsyth
Brown University
Fracture zone studies on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge


  Fall 1978

September  8
Dr. Suzanne Wass
Macquarie University
Basaltic rocks and their mantle inclusions from Australia
September 15
Dr. Richard Young
SUNY Geneseo
Structural evolution of the Colorado Plateau; basin and range boundary
September 22
Dr. Tom Anderson
University of Pittsburgh

Evolution of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in the Mesozoic
September 29 Dr. Keith O'Nions
Columbia University
Chemical evolution of the Earth's mantle
October 6
Dr. Walter Mitronovas
NYS Geological Survey
Seismicity of the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc
October 13

Dr.  Charles Stern
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Basaltic Petrology
November 10 Dr. Charles Langmuir
SUNY Stony Brook
Major element heterogeneity in the mantle
November 17
Dr.  Tom Crough
Princeton University
Oceanic Plateaus and hot spots
December 1
Dr.  Allan Ludman
Queens College, CUNY
Early Paleozoic history of eastern and central Maine


Spring 1978

February 3

Dr.  Otto Mueller
Colgate University
The problems of sill injection
February 10 Dr.  Dan McKenzie
University of Cambridge
The Aegean: a sedimentary basin without sediments
February 24 Dr. James McClelland
Colgate University
Structural framework of the southern Adirondacks: a possible analog for the deep Tibetan crust

March 3
Dr. Clark Burchfiel
MIT
Cordilleran Orogen of southern United States; and irregularly developing Andean orogen
March 17 Dr. Bruce Watson
RPI
Geochemistry of the amorphous state (or, what do silicate melts mean to you?)
March 31
Dr. Stephen Moorbath
University of Toronto
Ages, isotopes, and continental evolution
April 7
Dr.  Brian Windley
University of Leicester
Evolution of the Archean crust
April 14
Dr. Charlotte Schreiber
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Environments of evaporite deposition
April 28
Dr. Tanya Atwater
MIT
Emplacement of oceanic crust; constraints for the FAMOUS area
May 5
Dr. Richard Bischke
Temple University
A simple model of plate margins based on long term ground displacements and interplate/intraplate stress
May 12
Dr.  Hugh Davies
Australian Bureau of Mines
Tectonic setting of ophiolite in Papua, New Guinea


  Fall 1977

September  2
Dr. John Dewey
SUNY Albany
Thinning of the continental lithosphere: with examples mainly from the Alps
September 9
Dr. William Ryan
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Subsidence history of passive continental margins
September 16
Dr. Robert Detrick
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Gravity and bathymetry across aseismic ridges
September 30 Dr. Win Means
SUNY Albany
TBA
October 7
Dr. Roger N. Anderson
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Cold spot south of Australia
October 14

Dr.  Richard Arculus
Australian National University
Geochemical variations in Lesser Antilles and Papua New Guinea island arcs
October 21
Dr. William Ruddiman
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Growth and decay of the northern hemisphere ice sheets: role of the North Atlantic Ocean
October 28
Dr.  Robert Ballard
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Accreting plate margins from  a submersible and deep towed camera package
November 4

Dr. James Hays
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Origin of ice ages
November 11
Dr. Stan Hart
MIT
The same old talk
November 18
Dr.  Geoff Davies
University of Rochester
Whole mantle convection and plate tectonics
December 2
Dr. Walter Pitman
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Topography and structural development of the United States continental margin in the New York Bight and surrounding areas
December 7
Dr. Warren Hamilton
US Geological Survey, Denver
Subduction in the Indonesian region


Spring 1977

January 28

Dr.  Ted Bence
SUNY Stony Brook
Chemistry and mineralogy of ocean-floor basalts
February 4 Dr. 
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February 11 Dr.
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February 18
Dr.
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March 11
Dr. Kevin Burke
SUNY Albany
Caribbean tectonics
March 24
Dr. A. Bally
Shell Bellaire Research Lab
Plate Tectonics and Problems in Orogenic Belts
March 25
Dr. Michael Perfit
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Geochemical constraints on Aleutian plutonism
March 29
Dr. A. Sugimura
Kobe University
Quaternary tectonics of the  Japanese islands
April 15
Dr.  T. Engelder
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Recent folding in western New York State
April 29
Dr. Jean-Claude Mercier
SUNY Stony Brook
Large-scale chemical and rheological heterogeneity of the upper mantle
May 2
Dr.  S Banno
Kanazawa University
Thermodynamic models of solid solution and their application to the genesis of ultramafic rocks


  Fall 1976

September  3
Dr. Roger N. Anderson
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Mechanisms of heat transfer in the Indian Ocean
September 10
Dr. Stephen E. Haggerty
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
High-temperature cosmothermometry: meteoritic evidence for mineral condensation in the early solar nebula
September 17
Dr. Stan Hart
MIT
Basalt geochemistry and mantle heterogeneity
September 24 Dr. Jelle de Boer
Wesleyan University
Jurassic dikes in the Appalachians and their tectonic significance
October 1
Dr. David Walker
Harvard University
Generation of anorthosites in light of experimental petrology
October 15

Dr.  Phil Whitney
Nev York State Geological Survey
Metamorphism of anorthosites
October 29
Dr. S. A. Morse
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Nain Anorthosite, Labrador
November 5
Dr. 
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November 12

Dr.
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November 19
Dr.
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December 3
Dr. 
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Spring 1976

February 6

Dr.
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February 13 Mr.  Carl Sondergeld
Cornell University
Geothermal reservoirs: experiments related to two-phase systems
February 20

Dr.  William MacDonald
SUNY Binghamton
Applications and misapplications of paleomagnetism to structure and tectonics

March 12
Dr. Ellen M. Herron
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Neotectonics of extreme southern Chile; Nazca-Antarctic-S American triple junction
March 16 Dr. Harold Wïlliams
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ancient continental margin of eastern North America
March 19
Dr.
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March 26
Dr.
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April 9
Dr. Arthur Brownlow
Boston University
Trace metal chemistry of sulfide minerals associated with ore deposits
April 23
Dr. Y. Ohashi
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution
Geological applications of crystallographic techniques
April 30
Dr. Herman Zimmerman
Union College
Litbofacies distribution in the South Atlantic Ocean


  Fall 1975

September  5
Dr. W. B. Bryan
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Compositional variation in median valley basalt glasses
September 19
Dr. Roger N. Anderson
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Hydration at ridges and dehydration at trenches
September 26
Dr. Robert L. Fleischer
General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center

Applications of charged particle tracks in earth and planetary sciences
October 3 Dr. A. B. Watts
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Seafloor spreading in marginal basins of the western Pacific
October 17
Dr. Norman D. Watkins
University of Rhode Island
Origins of marine magnetic mythology: thoughts on the IPOD phase of DSDP
October 24

Dr.  B. J. Wood
University of Manchester
Geothermometry and geobarometry - theory and experiment
October 31
Dr. John F. Dewey
SUNY Albany
Fracture zone-transform fault evolution
November 6
Dr. Walter C. Pitman III
Lamont-Doherty Geological  Observatory
What you always wanted to know about continental margins and never dared to ask
November 7
Dr.  C. Goetze
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Progress in the interpretation of naturally deformed olivine-rich rocks
November 14

Dr. C. H. Scholz
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Comparative tectonics: the San Andreas and Alpine Faults
November 21
Dr. M.J.P. Welland
Wayne State University
Tectonic development of the Oman-Zagros Belt; implications for the mechanism of ophiolite emplacement
December 5
Dr.  William M. Chapple
Brown University
Structures resulting from a continent-trench collision: calculations and speculations



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