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Geology & GeographyLecture Series |
1998-1999
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Dr. Daniel J. Fornari
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vents: The Formation
of the Oceanic Crust"
Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 8 p.m.
Room 105, Clark Hall, Williams College
Dr. John M. Hayes
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"The Abundance of 13C in Marine
Organic Matter and Isotopic Fractionation in the Global Biogeochemical
Cycle of Carbon During the past 800 Ma"
Friday, 16 October 1998, 3:30 p.m.
Room 131, Morrill 2, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Paul F. Hoffman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"A Snowball Earth and Early Animal Evolution"
Wednesday, 11 November 1998, 8 p.m.
Room 5, Pratt Museum, Amherst College
Dr. Naomi Oreskes
Department of History, University of California at San Diego
"The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in
American Earth Science"
Monday, 22 February 1999, 7:30 p.m.
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College
Dr. Drew S. Coleman
Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University
"The Birth of Earth's Continental Crusts: New Insights from
the Sierra Nevada of California"
Wednesday, 3 March 1999, 8 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
Dr. Harry Y. McSween, Jr.
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee
"Origin of Rocks and Soil at the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site"
Monday, 26 April 1999, 7:30 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Art Museum, Mt. Holyoke College