Miami University

Departmental Seminar Series: Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held at 4:00 pm in room 10 Shideler. Refreshments are served prior to each lecture, beginning at 3:30 pm in room 10 Shideler. Contact Cathy Edwards at 513-529-3216 if you have any questions.

Friday, January 22, 2010
Evgenya Shelobolina (University of Wisconsin)
"Microbial Fe(II) oxidation in phyllosilicates".

Friday, February 5, 2010
Chris Kincaid (University of Rhode Island)
"Modeling the evolution circulation and transport in the Cascades-Yellowstone subduction system: The search for the magic bullet of plumes".

Friday, February 12, 2010
Brenda Buck (University of Nevada @ Las Vegas)
"Salt Heave: A New Formation Process for Patterned Ground and Model for Hyperarid Soil Formation, Atacama Desert, Chile".

Friday, February 19, 2010
Greg Hoke (Syracuse University)
"Integrating paleoaltimetry and geomorphology in the central Andes".

Friday, February 26, 2010
Mohamed Abdelsalam (Missouri University of Science & Technology)
"Making of a Divergent Plate Boundary: The Afar Depression Testimony".

Thursday, March 4, 2010 - Time and location TBA
Donna Shillington (MARGINS DLP Speaker, Columbia University)
"Recipe(s) for continental breakup".

Friday, March 5, 2010
Donna Shillington (MARGINS DLP Speaker, Columbia University)
"An abrupt transition from magma-poor to magma-rich rifting in the eastern Black Sea".

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 4:00 PM in Room 215 Shideler
Dave London (MSA Speaker, Ohio University)
"Gem-Bearing Pegmatites: Nature's "Fancy" Rocks".

Friday, March 26, 2010
Jim Cobb (University of Kentucky)
"Geologic Mapping in Kentucky and an Introduction to State Geological Surveys in the US".

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 4:30 PM in Room 115 Shideler
Harry Green (University of California, Riverside)
"How do earthquakes occur deep inside the Earth?"

Friday, April 23, 2010 - Time and location TBA
Harry Green (University of California, Riverside)
"Up the down staircase: Deeply subducted rocks in continental collision zones".

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