GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Lunch Bunch Series > Tectonophysics Fall 2007

Meetings held on Tuesdays in GC 039.

Tuesday, 2/12/08
No Lunch Bunch

Tuesday, 2/19/08
Ory Dor
Part I: Inferences about the depth of dynamic pulverization from damage in sandstones adjacent to the San Andereas Fault
Part II: The geometry of slip surfaces in the hanging-wall of the Sierra Madre fault, California: Mohr-Coulomb failure induced by dynamic off-fault stress field

Tuesday, 2/26/08
To be announced

Tuesday, 3/4/08
Chloe Michaut, Yale
"Thermal structure and evolution of cratonic roots"

Tuesday, 3/11/08
No Lunch Bunch

Tuesday, 3/18/08
Ben Holtzman, Lamont/Doherty
"Towards mapping from seismic velocity to viscosity at plate boundaries"

Tuesday, 4/1/08
Gareth Morgan
"Small scale Martian lobate landforms: implications for Amazonian hydrology"

Special Talk on Tuesday, 4/8/08
12:00pm in MacMillan Hall, Room 115
Linda Rowan, Director of Governmental Affairs at American Geological Inst.
"Tectonopolicy: Dynamic oppportunities for geoscientists to communicate with policy makers on an ever-changing planet"

Tuesday, 4/15/08
Linda Chernak
"The effect of H2O and CO2 on the dislocation creep strength of quartz"

Tuesday, 4/22/08
David Abt
"Shear-wave Splitting Tomography and Mantle Wedge Flow in Central America"

SPECIAL SENIOR THESIS PRESENTATION at 3pm in GC 029
Corynn Brodski
"Dating of lake sediments using terrestrial-plant derived lignin phenols"

Tuesday, 4/29/08
No lunch bunch

Tuesday, 5/6/08
No lunch bunch

Tuesday, 5/13/08
No Lunch Bunch

SPECIAL MASTER'S DEGREE PRESENTATION
GeoChem room 029, 12:00 noon
Devina Swarup
"Inferred orbital forcing in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation, UT"

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