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Spring (yes, SPRING) 2009 Weekly Seminar Series

Talks are on Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:20 pm in 110 Willamette Hall.
Tea and cookies are served in Cascade 200 beginning at 3:30 p.m.


April 1 - Don Forsyth (Brown University)
Small-scale convection in the mantle beneath young Pacific seafloor

April 8 - Rob van der Hilst (MIT)
Deep Earth Exploration Seismology

April 15 - Jim Gaherty (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)
Mantle Melting, Melt Extraction, and Deformation at Slow-Spreading Ridges

April 22 - Thorsten Becker (University of Southern California)
Variations in plate tectonic heatflow and plumes

April 28 - Rob Clayton (Caltech)
Horizontal subduction in Central Mexico

May 6 - Mark Ghiorso (University of Washington)
Triggering Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

May 13 - Norman Savage (University of Oregon)
Isotope geochemistry through three Devonian Global Extinction Events, NW Thailand

May 20 - Mike Oskin (University of California, Davis)
Breaking North America: Timing and architecture of localized rifting in the northern Gulf of California

May 27 - Hubert Studigel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)


June 3 - Unscheduled
Unscheduled


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