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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of April 28-May 4, 2008
 
Speakers: Various
Topics: Geology of the Aegean
Series/Event: Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Monday-Wednesday, 4/28-30
Location For details, visit: http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/harrington_symposium/
Speakers: Summiyyah Ahmed
Topics: Tide Influenced Deltas in the Haystack Mountain Formation, SW Wyoming
Series/Event: Softrock Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 4/28, Noon
Location Geo 3.222
Speakers: B. Clark Burchfiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topics: The Aegean: A Natural Laboratory for Tectonics
Series/Event: Invited Talk / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Monday, 4/28, 6:00-6:30 pm
Location Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center
Speakers: George H. Davis, University of Arizona
Topics: Archaeological Elements of Mt. Lykaion Sanctuary of Zeus (Southern Peloponnesos) in Relation to Tectonics and Structural Geology
Series/Event: Invited Talk / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Monday, 4/28, 6:30-7:00 pm
Location Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center
Speakers: Dimitrios Papanikolaou, University of Athens, Greece
Topics:

Thrusts and Extensional Detachments Within the Cretan Tectonostratigraphy
Series/Event: Barnes Distinguished Lecture / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/29, 8:05-8:25 am
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Robert J. Stern, University of Texas at Dallas
Topics: Know your Rigid Indenter: An Overview of the Continental Crust and Lithosphere of the Arabian Plate
Series/Event: Cuyler Distinguished Lecture / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/29, 9:25-9:45 am
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Elizabeth Catlos, DGS
Topics: Monazite Geochronology, Magmatism, and Extensional Dynamics within the Menderes Massif, Western Turkey
Series/Event: Talk / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/29, 1:55-2:15 pm
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Richard Ketcham, DGS
Topics: The Unroofing History of Naxos and Paros: Constraints and Questions from Thermochronology and Thermal Modeling
Series/Event: Talk / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/29, 5:00-5:20 pm
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Todd B. Housh, DGS
Topics: Copper Isotope Geochemistry of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Eastern Pontides, Turkey
Series/Event: Talk / Harrington Symposium (By Registration Only)
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/30, 10:10-10:30 am
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers:  
Topics:  
Series/Event: Department of Geosciences Awards Ceremony
Date & Time: Thursday, May 1, 4:00-5:00 pm
Location JGB 2.234 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Sean Gulick, UTIG
Topics: The Rock that Changed the World
Series/Event: Hot Science Cool Talk
Date & Time: Friday, May 2, 7:00-8:00 pm (Come at 5:45 for fun hands on demonstrations, classroom materials and snacks)
Location Welch Hall 2.224
 

This Week in Geosciences (TWIG) is a weekly communication from the Jackson School of Geosciences. To submit events for TWIG, contact the communications team in the JSG Dean's Office at communications@jsg.utexas.edu or 512-471-2241.

 

 
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