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

January 22 ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS
Paul Howell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
E-textbooks in our future? How so? And why?

January 29 SEDIMENTOLOGY
Stephen F. Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey
Tidal sedimentation and soft-sediment deformation in Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska

Februrary 5 COAL
James C. Hower, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky
Impact of coal properties on coal combustion by-product quality: examples from a Kentucky power plant

Februrary 12 BASEMENT FAULTS
David C. Greene, Department of Geology and Geography, Denison University
Basement faulting and fault inversion during the intraplate Alice Springs orogeny, Huckitta region, central Australia

February 19 IMPACT STRUCTURES
Pascal Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, Visiting Professor, Cornell University
TBA

February 26 DEVONIAN PALEOCLIMATE
C. Blaine Cecil, United States Geological Survey
Evidence for Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous global cooling in the Appalachian basin

March 4
TBA
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March 11
Michael Handke
TBA

March 18 Spring break

March 25 SE/NE GSA meeting in Tysons Corner, Virginia

April 1 TECTONICS
William A. Thomas, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
The role of detrital zircons in plate reconstructions for the Argentine Precordillera

April 8 DARCY LECTURE, HYDROGEOLOGY
Allen M. Shapiro, United States Geological Survey
Recent advances in characterizing ground-water flow and chemical transport in fractured rock from cores to kilometers

April 15 McFARLAN LECTURE, CANADIAN ROCKIES
Raymond A. Price, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Processes in the evolution of the North American Cordillera: A perspective from the southern Canadian Cordillera

April 22 HYDROGEOLOGY
Alan Fryar, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
TBA