GEOL261- Potential Talk Topics for GEOL261- Advanced Physical Geology, Fall 2011.

You will be asked to pick 2 topics on Friday August 26, 2011. You will present each of your two research on those topics on the two dates listed on the syllabus.

Oral Presentation Topics- GEOL261-Advanced Physical Geology
Number Topic First Name Last name Talk #
1 Fossils- vertebrates      
2 Metamorphic petrology      
3 Folded mountains- where, when, what, how & who      
4 Mineralogy      
5 Unconformities- types, recognition, occurances      
6 Milankovitch cycles      
7 River landforms      
8 Petroleum geology      
9 Desert landforms      
10 Ocean temperatures- modern and ancient      
11 Geophysics- uses and methods      
12 Mining geology      
13 Soils      
14 Glaciers - landforms      
15 Glaciers -ice flow mechanics      
17 Faults and Earthquakes      
18 Ocean chemistry      
19 Igneous Petrology      
20 Volcanoes- types and characteristics      
21 Extinction events in the geological record      
22 Sedimentary Petrology- clastics      
23 Absolute dating techniques      
24 Sedimentary Petrology- chemical      
26 Hydrogeology- subsurface flow      
27 Evaporites      
28 Paleozoic paleogeography-global & North America      
29 Geologic evidence of climate change      
30 Stratigraphy      
31 Fossils- paleobotany      
32 Coal geology- formation and mining of      
33 Environmental contaminants- sources, solutions      
34 Karst landscapes      
35 Geologic time & development of Column      
36 Fault block mountains -where, when, what, how & who      
37 Mesozoic paleography-global & North America      
38 Landslides and other mass wasting      
39 Fossils- invertebrates      
40 Paleofloods-  where, when, what, how & who      
41 Meteorite impacts- where, when, what, & how      
42 Coastal Processes      
43 Sea floor geology      
44 Planetary geology