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WEEKLY
COLLOQUIUM
The
Department sponsors a weekly colloquium during the academic year in which
speakers from inside and outside the Department give talks on areas of
current research interest.
Fridays at 2:30 pm
Room 201 Braunstein Hall. Refreshments following
at 513 Geology/Physics Building.
FALL QUARTER 2007 COLLOQUIUM
SCHEDULE:
October 12th
Steve Wesnouski, University
of Nebraska
Active
Faulting in the Walker Lane and Basin and Range: Observations Bearing
on Evolution of Fault Systems and Development of Pacific-North American
Plate Boundary.
October
19th
Andrew
Meigs, University
of Oregon
Seismotectonics
of the Precordillera-Pampeanas Transition Zone - A structural transition
between thin-skined/thick-skinned thrusting in western Argentia.
Octoberber
26 th
Ed
Harp, USGS
- Denver
Comparison
of landslide hazard mapping in devloped and developing countries.
November
2nd
GSA Week.
November
16th
Bruce Rothschild, Younstown,
Ohio
Paleopathology
of vertebrates.
Novemebr
23rd, Thankgiving
No colloquium
November
30th
Kurt Frankel,
Georgia
Tech
Fault
slip rates, constancy of seismic release and landscape evolution in the
eastern California shear zone.
Decemeber
6th
Stefan Weyer,
Franfurt
U
isotopes as paleoenvironmental tools.
Class Trips
4-day
Field Trips
Annually, the faculty of the Department
of Geology organize a field trip of about 4 days to localities in the
eastern mid-west of the US. See more about
the 4-day field trips.
Professor Emeritus Paul Potter speaks
in Southern Illinois on the 2002 4-day field trip.
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History
Scientific studies of both glacial and bedrock formations led to the establishment
of the Department of Geology at the University of Cincinnati in 1907.
Nevin M. Fenneman was its first chairman and, for a while, its only faculty
member. His landform classification map of the U.S., published in
1916, became the most widely used map of its type, and his two-volume
work on the physiography (landforms) of the eastern and western U.S. became
a classic in the field of geomorphology.
For the next several decades, the department grew in reputation as it
continued to attract students and a number of nationally known faculty
members, such as Walter Bucher, Kenneth E. Caster, Otto von Schlichten,
and John Rich. In the early years, a small group of scholars established
excellent programs in geomorphology, tectonics and structural geology,
petroleum and sedimentary geology, and paleontology.
Since then, the geology department has continued to grow and to keep
pace with the rapidly changing field it represents. In the 1970's,
the addition of more faculty and modern, well-equipped laboratories allowed
the department of geology to expand its course offerings at both the undergraduate
and graduate level. As a result, the number of students annually
receiving Baccalaureate, Masters and Doctoral degrees increased.
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