BRANAGAN, D. F. (Editor)Rocks—Fossils—Profs: geological sciences in the University of Sydney, 1866–1973. Science Press, Sydney, 1974. 8 vo. pp. vii, 184, A$8.50 [Obtainable from the Secretary, Dept. of Geology, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia].

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (PART_3) ◽  
pp. 327-327
Author(s):  
V. G. Eyles
Keyword(s):  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

IX General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-250
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Monday Afternoon ◽  
International Council ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Opening Session

At the invitation of the Royal Society the IX General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) was held in London from 25 to 28 September 1961. The last occasion when the Council held a General Assembly in London was in 1946, the IV Assembly of this body to which fifty-one nations now adhere and fourteen international scientific unions constitute the scientific members. The General Assembly was preceded by meetings of the Bureau and of the Executive Board which took place in the rooms of the Royal Society, but the number of delegates who came to this country for the plenary sessions of the International Council was well over 100 and it was necessary to find accommodation for them beyond the limits of Burlington House. Meetings were held in the School of Pharmacy of the University of London. After registration in the morning of Monday, 25 September, the delegates were welcomed by Sir Howard Florey, P.R.S., and the opening session on Monday afternoon was presided over by the President of the International Council of Scientific Unions, Sir Rudolph Peters, F.R.S. The newly formed International Union of Geological Sciences was admitted to ICSU as a general union and became the fourteenth scientific member of the Council. The Council admitted as national members the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Korean Academy of Sciences, the Ghana Academy of Learning, the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science and the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

The Geogarden of the University Roma Tre: creation of a prototype of a Geological Garden of Lazio for the dissemination of Geological Sciences in Rome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sveva Corrado ◽  
Andrea Bollati ◽  
Marina Fabbri
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Quaternary Period ◽  
Lazio Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Countryside ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
The City

<p>Between 2017 and 2019, a prototype of a geological garden for the dissemination of Geological Sciences to the general public was created in the open-air spaces of the Department of Sciences of the Roma Tre University. This first nucleus is the result of a Citizen Science activity carried out by students of the High Schools of Rome and its province, conceived and guided by a group of University researchers and high school teachers, in collaboration with local institutions and some mining companies operating in the surroundings of Rome. Currently the prototype consists of six large rock samples representative of lithotypes cropping out in the Roman Campaign and in the nearby Central Apennines that allow to tell the evolution of the territory surrounding the city of Rome since about 15 Ma ago, with particular reference to the history of the Roman countryside in the Quaternary period. Guided tours for schools and a general public and events popularizing scientific culture at various scales have represented the main dissemination activities carried out so far. Currently the garden is being expanded and integrated with numerous plant species representative of the botanical heritage of the Lazio region.</p>

COCORP: Nevada areas, Part I and Part II

Geophysics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 2281-2281
Author(s):  
S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Dartmouth College ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Rice University ◽  
Executive Group ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) announces the availability of the data packages and digital tapes for two areas: Nevada area, Part 1, lines 4, 5, and 6 covering 270.1 line‐km; and Nevada area, Part II, lines 1, 2, 3, and 7 covering 273 line‐km. The costs are the costs of reproduction and shipping, only. The COCORP operation is part of the U.S. Geodynamics Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and funded by the National Science Foundation. The executive group of the consortium consists of representatives from Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Rice University, and the University of Wisconsin. Cornell University is the operating institution. The line locations for the two areas are shown in Figure 1. Also shown is Nevada line 8 which is not yet ready for distribution but which will be part of the N. Cal‐Nevada package to be issued shortly. Petty‐Ray was the contractor for the data acquisition. Processing was done on the Megaseis system at Cornell by students and staff of the Department of Geological Sciences.

Contributors to this issue

Geophysics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1237-1240
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Seismic Data Processing ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
And Inversion

Faruq E. Akbar received his BS (1988) in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his MS (1992) in geophysics from the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. His professional interests are seismic data processing, modeling, migration, and inversion.

The Influence of the University of Heidelberg on the Development of Geology in North America Between 1860 and 1913

1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianne Mahler ◽  
Hermann Pfefferkorn
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
National Park ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
United States Geological Survey ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

The University of Heidelberg, in Heidelberg, West Germany, had a significant influence on the development of the geological sciences in North America between 1860 and 1913. During these years, in a reversal of the current scene, the brightest young scientists of North America came to Europe to pursue graduate studies. Of these scientists, twelve came to Heidelberg to study the geological sciences and then returned to North America to make significant contributions in their field. For example, two students developed the CIPW normative calculations; one performed the first quantitative laboratory experiments, duplicating rock deformation in the earth's crust; another student became the first "geologist-in-charge" of the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and a fifth mapped Yellowstone before it was a national park. The students came to Heidelberg to learn the newest techniques from professors such as Rosenbusch, Bunsen, and Salomon-Calvi. They also learned to develop theories based on the technique of detailed and careful observation that these men used. They caught the excitement about the world around them exuded by these same men, and they, in turn, spread what they had learned in Heidelberg when they returned to North America as professors and members of the USGS.

scholarly journals James H. Stitt: A Dedicated Professor and Exemplary Biostratigrapher

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lower Ordovician ◽  
Student Advisor ◽  
Wichita Mountains ◽  
Sense Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

On Friday September 17 Jim Stitt died quietly in his sleep, ending a long and characteristically tenacious battle with cancer. His passing leaves a void of great magnitude in the geological sciences and in the lives of the many people whom he influenced as family, friends, or colleagues. I was Jim's first Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, where he spent the past 31 years as a pillar of the geology program, serving at various times as Chair and Graduate Student Advisor. Jim is well known and respected for an impressive body of meticulously crafted taxonomic and biostratigraphic studies on trilobites and brachiopods. His three monographs on faunas in the Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (Stitt, 1971a, 1977, 1983) established that area as a standard for correlation of Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician strata in North America. This “Oklahoma trilogy” is a treasure trove of taxonomic and biostratigraphic data that has been drawn upon heavily in numerous subsequent biostratigraphic and paleobiologic studies. It provides a biozonation of unparalleled precision for carbonate platform facies of that interval, ironically assembled in an area where rocks of that age yield their fossils only reluctantly. Jim took great pride in extracting useful information from difficult rocks. He passed that laudable attitude on to his academic offspring, along with the sense of satisfaction he derived from seeing his data put to good use in solving geologic or paleobiologic problems, in his own work and in that of others. At the same time, he was always complimentary and supportive of more theoretical or abstract research, an attitude sadly lacking in some practitioners with a bent toward applied paleontology.

Deep-water deposits of the Eocene Tyee Formation, Oregon

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-48
Author(s):  
Gwladys T. Gaillot* ◽  
Michael L. Sweet ◽  
Manasij Santra
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Submarine Fan ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Source To Sink ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Basin Floor ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT The Eocene Tyee Formation of west central Oregon, USA, records deposition in a forearc basin. With outcrop exposures of fluvial/deltaic to shelf and submarine fan depositional environments and known sediment sourcing constrained by detrital zircon dating and mineralogy linked to the Idaho Batholith, it is possible to place deposits of the Tyee Formation in a source-to-sink context. A research program carried out by the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and ExxonMobil Research Company’s Clastic Stratigraphy Group has reconstructed the Eocene continental margin from shelf to slope to basin floor using outcrop and subsurface data. This work allows us to put observations of individual outcrops into a basin-scale context. This field trip will visit examples of depositional environments across the entire preserved source-to-sink system, but it will focus on the deep-water deposits of the Tyee Formation that range from slope channels to proximal and distal basin-floor fans. High-quality roadcuts reveal the geometry of slope channel-fills in both depositional strike and dip orientations. Thick, sand-rich medial fan deposits show vertical amalgamation and a high degree of lateral continuity of sandstones and mudstones. Distal fan facies with both classic Bouma-type turbidites and combined flow or slurry deposits are well exposed along a series of new roadcuts east of Newport, Oregon. The larger basin-scale context of the Tyee Formation is illustrated at a quarry in the northern end of the basin where the contact between the oceanic crust of the underlying Siletzia terrane and submarine fan deposits of the Tyee Formation is exposed. The Tyee Formation provides an excellent opportunity to see the facies and three-dimensional geometry of deep-water deposits, and to show how these deposits can be used to help reconstruct ancient continental margins.

Geological Sciences at the University of Warsaw

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. I-III
Author(s):  
Ewa Krogulec ◽  
Ray Macdonald ◽  
Ireneusz Walaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

W.G.E. Caldwell, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Glasgow), D.Sc. (Sask.), F.R.S.C. – A Career Résumé

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Paul Copper ◽  
Jisuo Jin
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
International Union ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
Western Interior Basin ◽  
Stratigraphic Nomenclature ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

This issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences is dedicated to Professor Glen Caldwell in honour of his extensive contributions to the field of paleontology and scientific publishing. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow in 1957, Dr. Caldwell joined the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, where he stayed for more than 30 years. During his tenure, he led the way in launching a new integrated curriculum, including paleobiology, geochemistry, and geophysics, and in organizing and equipping a vigorous research program. Dr. Caldwell also organized two international symposia on Cretaceous rocks of the Western Interior Basin of North America. Over the years he served on and made distinctive contributions to a wide variety of national and international professional organizations, including the American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, GAC, NSERC, and the International Union of Geological Sciences. Dr. Caldwell served as Vice-President (Research) of The University of Western Ontario from 1988 to his retirement in 1996. He continues to teach and serve various scientific organizations, and he remains a strong advocate for basic research grants.

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