Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences


Hard Rock Lunch

Spring 2013 Hard Rock Lunch

Hard Rock Lunch talks take place on Tuesdays at 12:20 pm, Pillsbury Hall room 209.

February 5: Janelle Homburg, “A theoretical investigation of the effects of shear heating and grain size evolution on strain localization in the Earth”

February 12:Christian Teyssier, “Oblique divergence and exhumation of the giant UHP rocks of Norway”

February 19: Sean Funk (UWO), “An experimental study on minettes and their associated mica-clinopyroxenite xenoliths from the Milk River area, southern Alberta, Canada”

February 26: Matej Pec, “Semi-Brittle Flow of Granitoid Fault Rocks: On the Origin of Pseudotachylites in Slow Creep Experiments”

March 5 –  TBA

March 12: Hongluo Zhang

March 19: Spring Break

March 26: Miki Takasa, “Influence of mineral fraction on the rheological properties of forsterite + enstatite during grain size sensitive creep; grain growth and deformation experiments”

April 2: Will Nachlas, “Titanium-in-deformed-quartzology”

April 9: Roxanne Renedo, “Tracing fabric development in an eclogite-bearing shear zone, Western Gneiss Region, Norway”

April 16: Anette von der Handt

April 23: Annia Fayon

April 30: Katherine Fornash, “Lawsoniteology”