University of Kentucky 

Department of Geological Sciences

Seminar Series Fall 2002


UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, seminars are on Thursdays in 303 Slone Research Building, with refreshments at 3:30 PM and the talk at 4:00 PM.

For more information, contact Dr.Bill Thomas
phone (859) 257-6222; e-mail: geowat@uky.edu

 

September 5 PALYNOLOGY
Cortland F. Eble, Kentucky Geological Survey
Palynology: principles and applications

September 12 GEOPHYSICS--FAULT MECHANICS
Shelley Kenner, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
How faults are loaded: the influence of tectonic environment\

September 19 SEISMITES
Stephen Obermeier, U.S. Geological Survey
Field examples of ground-failure features: were they seismically induced?

September 26 GEOCRONOLOGY
Stephen W. Grimes, Memorial University of Newfoundland
The southeast margin of Laurentia at 1.4-1.29 Ga: connections between localized rifting and the formation of the southern granite-rhyolite terranes

October 3 SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY
Sue M. Rimmer, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Organic carbon accumulation in the Devonian Appalachian basin:
muddying the waters of a stratified, anoxic basin model

October 11-12 ALUMNI WEEKEND

October 17 REMOTE SENSING
John C. Mars, U.S. Geological Survey
Geologic remote sensing applications using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and Airborne Visible/Infrared
Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data

October 24 SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
Ronald L. Martino, Department of Geology, Marshall University

October 31 No seminar, GSA meeting in Denver

November 7 FORELAND BASINS
Frank R. Ettensohn, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky

November 14 BROWN LECTURE, APPALACHIAN PIEDMONT GEOLOGY
James P. Hibbard, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences,
North Carolina State University
Current topics in Piedmont geology

November 21 GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
D. Matthew Surles, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Thomas P. Becker, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky

November 28 THANKSGIVING DAY

December 3 DISTINGUISHED VISITING FACULTY PROGRAM
Peter G. DeCelles, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Orogeny and climate change: the Himalayan disconnection

December 12 Last week of semester