Geology Events
[PAST EVENT] Geology Department Seminar
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- Free food
Please join us next week for the last Geology Seminar of the semester!
Who: Sean Moran `11
When: Wed, April 16 at 4pm
Where: McGlothlin-Street Hall in room 219
Title: “The Response of Mammals to Early Oligocene Cooling in the Nebraska Badlands”
Description: At the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, 33.9 Ma, Earth’s climate fundamentally shifted from an early Cenozoic greenhouse Earth to the icehouse Earth we are familiar with today. This abrupt shift resulted in the largest extinction of the Cenozoic Era as evidenced by the marine record and an increasingly complete global terrestrial record. The effects of this climatic event on North American mammals, however, remain poorly understood despite intensive paleontological collection from the White River sediments dating back to the 1840s. Data collected over the last seven years are beginning to shed light on the impact of the Eocene-Oligocene Transition on mammalian communities of Oligocene Nebraska.
There will be PIZZA!!! Hope to see you all there!
Sponsored by: Department of Geology
Contact
dmciruzzi@wm.edu