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Winter 2008 Seminar

Talks are on Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:20 pm in 110 Willamette Hall.

Jan. 9 - Vera Ponomareva (Institute of Volcanology, Kamchatka)
“Tephrachronology of Kamchatka Volcanoes”

Jan. 16 - John Pallister (Cascades Volcano Observatory )
“To collapse or not to collapse - A tale of two domes (Merapi, 2006 and Mount St. Helens 2004-present)”

Jan. 23 - Ray Weldon (University of Oregon)
“Setting building codes and earthquake insurance rates; the new Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities source model and updated USGS National Seismic Hazard Map”

Jan. 30 - Shan de Silva (Oregon State University)
“Continental magmatism and the formation of granite batholiths: insights from an ignimbrite flare-up in the Central Andes”

Feb. 6 - Jason Phipps-Morgan (Cornell University)
“More evidence that a plume-fed asthenosphere underlies all but thick cratonic lithosphere”

Feb. 13 - John Dilles (Oregon State University)
“Granites, porphyries, and ore fluids: magmatic sources of volatiles and metals”

Feb. 20 - Gordon Grant (PNW Research Station, USFS)
“Destruction of Marmot Dam”
:-(Canceled- To be rescheduled.

Feb. 27 - Geoff Abers (Boston University)
“Imaging the subduction zone water cycle”

March 5 - Becky Lange (University of Michigan)
“The origin of compositionally stratified continental crust: constraints from the Mexican volcanic arc”

March 12 - Kyle House (Nevada Geological Survey)
“Birth of the Lower Colorado River”


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