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EPSS 245C - Seismology, Tectonics and Earth's Interior Seminar
Title: Incipient breakup of the Isla Ángel de la Guarda microcontinent, Gulf of California, México -&- TBA
Date: Oct. 21, 2020
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Justing Higa
Speaker: Travis Gilmore
EPSS 286A - Planetary Science Seminar
Title: The Endgame of Planet Formation
Date: Oct. 21, 2020
Time: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Eugene Chiang
EPSS 235A - Geocheminar
Title: Demystifying the Mantle: Thermodynamic and Geochemical Heterogeneity within Mid-Ocean Ridge Peridotites
Date: Oct. 22, 2020
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Suzanne Birner
EPSS 245C - Seismology, Tectonics and Earth's Interior Seminar
Title: Array-based seismic waveform coherency measurement, simulation, and application in evaluating back-projections - & - Radial Anisotropy in the Indian Ocean from Higher Mode Surface Waves and a Hierarchical Transdismensional Approach
Date: Oct. 28, 2020
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Tong Zhou
Speaker: Erik Weidner
EPSS 245C - Seismology, Tectonics and Earth's Interior Seminar
Title: The Importance of Paleobathymetry in Understanding the Long-Term Carbon Cycle through Variations in Carbonate Compensation Depths throughout the Last 100Myr
Date: Nov. 4, 2020
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Matthew Bogumil
