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Winter 2013 Weekly Seminar Series

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


January 8 (Tues) - Mike McCurry (Idaho State) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: The role of fractional crystallization in the formation of Quaternary rhyolites of the Eastern Snake River Plain

January 9 (Wed) - Mike McCurry (Idaho State)
Title: Thoughts and problems regarding rhyolite petrogenesis and crustal evolution of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain hotspot track

January 16 (Wed) - Peter Lipman (USGS)
Title: Diverse ignimbrites and calderas of the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field, in relation to an elusive subvolcanic batholith

January 17 (Thurs) - Peter Lipman (USGS) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 10:00am
Title: Volcano Growth on the Island of Hawaii: Deep-Water Perspectives

January 22 (Tues) - Mark Ford (Oregon State) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Bimodal Volcanism of the High Lava Plains and Northwestern Basin and Range of Oregon: Diverse Silicic Magmatic Outcomes as a Result of Crustal Evolution

January 23 (Wed) - Scott McCoy (MIT)
Title: From Grains to Landscapes: A Multi-Scale Approach for Studying the Granular Mechanics of Debris Flow Hazards and Valley Incision

January 29 (Tues) - Wendy Bohrson (Central Washington) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Modeling Magmatic Processes that Lead to Compositional Diversity: Energy-Constrained Recharge, Assimilation, and Fractional Crystallization

January 30 (Wed) - Chris Henry (Univ. of Nevada Reno)
Title: Distribution, timing, and controls of the mid-Cenozoic Ignimbrite Flareup in western North America

January 31 (Thurs) - Chris Henry (Univ. of Nevada Reno) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 10:00am
Title: Far-traveled ignimbrites of the Great Basin: Implications for paleotopography and structural evolution

February 4 (Mon) - Crystal Ng (USGS) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–128 Chiles Hall, 4:00pm
Title: Integrating Data and Models: An Example to Assess Mojave Desert Ecohydrology

February 5 (Tues) - Martin Streek (Portland State) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Rhyolite generation in the context of bimodal and calcalkaline settings with emphasis on the applicability of mush models

February 6 (Wed) - Nadja Insel (University of Chicago)
Title: Lithosphere-Atmosphere Interactions During Growth of the Andes

February 11 (Mon) - Simon Mudd (University of Edinburgh) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–128 Chiles Hall, 4:00pm
Title: Quantifying the coupled geomorphic and geochemical evolution of eroding landscapes

February 13 (Wed) - Andy Wickert (University of Colorado)
Title: Co-evolution of sea level, ice sheets, drainage networks, and their depositional records in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum

February 19 (Tues) - Charlie Langmuir (Harvard) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Mantle Temperature, Mantle Heterogeneity, and the Origin of MORB

February 20 (Wed) - Charlie Langmuir (Harvard)
Title: Volcanism and Glacial Cycles: Evidence and Emerging Questions

February 26 (Tues) - Eric Christiansen (BYU, Provo) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Contrasts between magmatism of the Snake River Plain and the middle Cenozoic of the Great Basin

February 27 (Wed) - Eric Christiansen (BYU, Provo)
Title: The origin of the southern Great Basin ignimbrite flareup

February 28 (Thurs) - Amanda Thomas (UC Berkeley) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 12:00 noon
Title: Fact or friction: Inferring rheology from low-frequency earthquakes on the deep San Andreas fault

March 5 (Tues) - Jason McClaughry (Oregon Dept of Geol and Mineral Industries) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 1:00pm
Title: Statigraphy and volcanic evolution of the middle Miocene to Pliocene La Grande – Owyhee eruptive axis in eastern Oregon

March 6 (Wed) - Jason McClaughry (Oregon Dept of Geol and Mineral Industries)
Title: Reassessing the “ancestral Cascades”: New insights in Eocene and Oligocene volcanism in Oregon

March 12 (Tues) - Edward Davis (University of Oregon) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 4:00pm
Title: Climate, tectonics, and the evolution of mammalian geographic ranges

March 13 (Wed) - Calvin Miller (Vanderbilt, Nashville)
Title: Are plutons fossilized magma chambers? Evidence from volcanic and plutonic records

March 14 (Thurs) - Calvin Miller (Vanderbilt, Nashville) - SPECIAL SEMINAR–200 Cascade, 10:00am
Title: Silicic magma assembly in the crust based on isotopic and chemical traces

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