Spring 96, Geosciences Colloquium Schedule:
(Revised 5 March 1996):

Thursday @ 4:00, LMR 353 UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED!

 1 Feb - Jennifer Schubert, Burke Museum, University of Washington; Recovery 
from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event: paleoecology of Early Triassic 
marine invertebrate communities in the western US

 8 Feb - Dick Benoit, Oxbow Power Services; The geothermal industry in Nevada 

15 Feb - Isabel Montanez, Dept. Earth Sciences, UC Riverside; Middle Cambrian 
carbonates of the southern Great Basin:  Stratigraphic & geochemical indicators 
of sealevel

22 Feb - Katherine McCall, UNR Physics; Nonlinearity, Hysteresis, Discrete 
Memory:  Clues to a Description of Rock Elasticity

29 Feb - Adriana Ocampo, JPL; The Chicxulub Crater and the K-T 
Extinction

March 6 WEDNESDAY, 1:30 PM; Laura Crossey, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer: Cyclic 
cementation of sandstones:  Reflections of cyclic sedimentary processes

14 Mar - Tom Brown, Lawrence Livermore;  Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Direct Radiocarbon Dating of Pollen.

20 Mar, WEDNESDAY, 1:30 PM;  Bernard Duvall, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer: 
Major marine source rocks and stratigraphic cycles

28 Mar - Jeff Mount, UC Davis, Depositional Sequence Stratigraphy of the 
Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition:  Prospects and Perils

 4 April - Steve Wells, Director, QSC, DRI; Evolution of Desert Pavement 
Landscapes: Insights from Cosmogenic Surface Exposure Dating and Soil 
Geomorphology

11 Apr - spring break, no lecture

18 Apr - Justin Revenaugh, UC Santa Cruz; Relation of southern California 
seismicity to seismic scattering

25 Apr - Chad McCabe, Microsoft (formerly Louisana State); Title TBA.  
(paleomagnetism; chemical remagnetization)

 2 May - George Bergrantz, University of Washington; Title to be Announced 
(theoretical petrology; tectonics)