September 7 DEPARTMENTAL ICE BREAKER - come start the semester right with refreshments, announcements and community-building SDSU

September 14 Formation of the Alpine Orogen
Monte Marshall - SDSU

September 21 Dating the evolution of caldera magma chambers using zircon and allanite
Jorge Vazquez - California State University, Northridge

September 28 Conodonts and paleogeographic interpretations
Rick Miller - SDSU

October 5 Late Cenozoic tilt and incison of the U.S. Rocky Mountains: tectonics vs. climate
Paul Heller - University of Wyoming

October 12 Predator-prey dynamics in Pennsylvanian near-shore shales: Effects of mulluscan invasion into "normal" marine habitats
Jennifer Sawyer - SDSU
TBA
Donnie Dressler- SDSU

October 19 GSA Annual Meeting - No Seminar

October 26 Environmental Sedimentology: Materials, Fate, and Transport of Trash in the Riverine Environment
Norrie Robbins - SDSU

November 2 The Capture of the Moon
Gary Peterson - SDSU

November 9 Geoinformatics: Extracting Knowledge from the Rock Record Through Construction of Disciplinary Databases
Krishna Sinha - Virginia Polytechnic Institute

November 16 No Seminar

November 23 Thanksgiving Week - No Seminar

November 30 The Growth of North America Dave Kimbrough - SDSU

December 7 AGU Fall Meeting - No Seminar

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