U of M Will Host Geoscientists at Regional Meeting March 13-14
For release: Mar. 10, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Dinosaurs, asteroids and earthquakes will be on the agenda as scientists from around the country gather at The University of Memphis this week for a joint meeting of the South-Central and Southeastern sections of the Geological Society of America. The meeting, hosted by the University's Department of Earth Sciences, will be held March 13-14 at the U of M Holiday Inn Conference Center. Some 600 geoscientists are expected to attend.

The program will include presentations on regional geology, as well as talks on subjects of broad interest, such as paleontology and planetary science. Topics that will have particular regional interest are "Seismic Hazards: How Much Shaking Might We Expect?," "Dinosaurs and America's Interior Sea," "Early Earth and Large Asteroid Impacts," "Mapping Asteroid 4 Vesta," and "A Victim of Piracy? Why the Tennessee River Runs North in Hardin County."

Among U of M presenters are Dr. Brian Waldron, research assistant professor in the Ground Water Institute, "Methods of Soil-Chloride Extraction for Recharge Estimation Using the Chloride Method"; Chris B. Garner, "Hydrostratigraphy of a Window Through the Upper Claiborne Confining Unit, Memphis, Tennessee"; Jason M. Morat, "Analysis of Two Buried Soil Profiles on the Margin of a Sand Blow Near Portland, Arkansas"; Dr. Randel T. Cox, assistant professor, "Late Paleozoic Ozark Plateau Compression Following Docking of the Ouachita Block: Ancestral Rockies Deformation in the Midwest?"

For more information on the GSA meeting and details about the presentations, contact Ann Cairns, director of communications for the GSA, at 303-357-1056. For information during the meeting, contact the GSA registration desk at 901-678-1511.

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