Spring 1999 Seminar Schedule

• Jan. 29, Tim McCoy (Smithsonian Institution)

  "Igneous processes in meteorites: the case of a partially melted asteroid"

• Feb. 5, Richard Almendinger(Cornell Univ.)

  "Blind thrusts and fault propagation folds: new insights from trishear numerical modeling"

• Feb. 12, Janok Bhattacharya(Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

  "New models for wave-influenced deltas"

• Feb. 26, Robert Tye(ARCO Exploration & Production Technology)

  "Permeability trends in distributary mouth bar sandstones: insights from a horizontal core" and "Integrated stratigraphic analysis of a transgressive systems tract, San Joachim Basin, California"

• Mar. 5, Whitney Autin(SUNY Brockport)

  "Stratigraphic evolution of Quaternary fluvial systems: concepts and examples from the Gulf Coastal Plain and Lower Mississippi Valley"

• Mar. 26, Rudy Slingerland(Pennsylvania State Univ.)

  "Building mountains by erosion"

• Apr. 9, Thure Cerling(Univ. of Utah)

  "Global change straight from the horse's mouth"

• Apr. 16, Chris Paola(Univ. of Minnesota)

  "The making of Jurassic Tank: a new facility for experimental stratigraphy"

• Apr. 23, Peter Ashmore(Univ. of Western Ontario)

  "Morphological change and bed material transport rates in braided rivers"

• Apr. 30, Mary Droser(Univ. of California, Riverside)

  "Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the history of marine invertebrate life"

• May 7, Gail Ashley(Rutgers Univ.)

  "Paleoenvironment of early hominids, Early Pleistocene, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania"