Fall 2001 Colloquia
October 1, 2001
A.M. Celal Sengor (Distinguished Moore Fellow, Caltech)
Horizons of Knowledge and Sigma Xi Lecture
"Is the present the key to the past or the past the key to the present: An ongoing debate in geology as a general problem in historical sciences"
Psychology 100 at 4:00 P.M. Reception to follow in Geological Survey S201
October 4, 2001 (Thursday)
John Gibson (Landmark Corp.)
TUDOR LECTUREL The Future of Petroleum Geophysics - Great Scientist Needed Immediately - Apply Within.
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY126
October 8, 2001
Colin Harvey, Visiting Faculty, Indiana Univ.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY- AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE (The role of geological, geochemical and geophysical studies in the identification and assessment of these resources)
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
October 15, 2001
Judy Hannah (Colorado State University)
Re-Os behavior in mafic magmas and terrestrial diagenetic materials: Extracting information from open systems
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
October 22, 2001
Meenakshi Wadhwa (Curator, Meteoritics, Field Museum of Natural History)
Mars: The Perspective from Martian Meteorites
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
October 29, 2001
Enrique Merino, (Indiana University)
Mineral replacement, "force of crystallization", pressure-solution: some history, new views, consequences for rocks and water-rock interaction.
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
November 1, 2001 (Thursday)
Steve Ingebritsen (USGS)
Land Subsidence in the United States
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
November 12, 2001
Mark Wilson (College of Wooster, Ohio)
A Paleontological Perspective on Calcite Seas
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
November 19, 2001
BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Dr. Alan P. Hoffmeister (Virginia Tech)
Comparison of drilling predation patterns between the Late Paleozoic and mid-Cenozoic
12:20 P.M. in Survey S201
November 19, 2001
Christine Shriner (Indiana University)
A Petrological Approach to Archaeological Problem Solving
4:00 P.M. in Geology GY143
November 26, 2001
Haydn Murray (Indiana University)
Kaolin Development-Brazil
December 3, 2001
Peg Yacobucci (Bowling Green State University)
Explosive Evolution in a Cretaceous Sea