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

Geological Sciences Visiting Speaker Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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