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UA Geosciences Newsletter, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 1999)

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The Department of Geosciences Spring 1999 . Volume 4, Number 2 Letter from the Chair Joaquin Ruiz Peter Coney's untimely death is the Department's sad news. In 1982 I read an ad in EOS describing a job opening at The University of Arizona.I had just finished my PhD dissertation on the origin of tin -rich rhyolites of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico and had based many of my conclusions on Peter Coney's suspect terrane map of Mexico and his ideas of magmatism in the western US. I could barely wait to meet this scientist. His papers were imaginative and thought provoking. Of course, the papers reflected the man. After I got to know Peter, I was also struck by his humanity. Peter cared about people. He deeply cared for his students and was able to transmit to them his knowledge, his analysis and his calm. In fact, what made Peter such a remarkable individual Peter Coney in the northern Snake Range detachment fault. (photo by Peter DeCelles) was his genius combined with his humanity. Peter left us with many legacies -a legacy of great thinking of how the Earth works, a A Farewell to Peter Coneylegacy of great teaching, a legacy of how things are done in a collaborative spirit. This newsletter has a few sections dedicated to Peter and in fact our science article on sediment sources in North America through Bob Butler Receives Distinguished Active Tectonics Field Trip 9 time, by Jonathan Patchett, is the kind of study that Peter would have enjoyed. I am pleased Teaching Award 3 Alumni News 10 to announce that an endowment has been Junior Ed Program at Tucson Alumni Achievement Award: established by a generous alum creating a graduate fellowship in Peter Coney's name. Gem & Mineral Show 3 Mark Zoback 13 On the positive side, the Department continues to do well. In research and graduate In Memory of Peter Coney 4 GeoDaze '99 14 education, recent polls in U.S. News and Caledonian -Appalachian Sediment List of the Lost 16 World Report rank our Department 7th in the country, up from 9th last time around. The Deposition 300 MY Old 6 John Anthony Autobiography 17 Department ranked 4th in the subspecialties Center for Earth Surface Processes7 Recent Publications & Kudos to 18 of Tectonics /Structural Geology and Sedimentology. NSF figures place us as the SESS Field Trip: Sonora 8 Fall '98 Degrees 19 4th best funded department in 1998. In -cont'd p. 2 UA Geosciences N EWSLETTER DONORS Spring 1999 Department of Geosciences1998-1999 _;;:'% ..-- --_.. Geosciences Advisory Board :,.;: Steven R. May, EXXON The Department of Geosciences expresses its gratitude to alumni and friends Steven R. Bohlen, USGS who continue to support the department through their generous donations. Regina M. Capuano, Univ. of Houston BERTS. BUfLER SCHOLARSHIP UNRESTRICEDFUND Kerry F. Inman, Consultant Joseph R. Mitchell Vivian G. Dell'Acqua Bernard W. Pipkin Charles F. Kluth, Chevron William R. & Jacqueline Dickinson Terrence M. Gerlach Robert W. Krantz, ARCO Alaska JamesF.Hays David J. Lofquist, EXXON FIELD CAMP FUND Charles F. Kluth Omar E. DeWald J. David Lowell, Consultant (Chevron Matching Gift) Charles W. Kiven Neal E McClymonds Stephen J. Naruk, Shell David A. McKeown David K. Rea, Univ. of Michigan David K. Rea KEITHL. KATZER SCHOLARSHIP (Cleveland H. Dodge Matching Gift) David Stephenson, D/H Stephenson, Inc. Alan C. Notgrass Jeffrey G. Seekatz William H. Wilkinson (Chair), Phelps -Dodge (Exxon Matching Gift)

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Letter from the Chair cont'd successful field trip led by George Davis and fellowships and capital equipment. It is our Susan Beck to study active tectonics. intent to begin a fundraising campaign early undergraduate research, our Department's The Geosciences Advisory Board met next year. tradition of excellence in teaching was again again this year in conjunction with GeoDaze An obvious trend in this newsletter, and highlighted when Bob Butler was awarded the and effected some signifcant changes in its one that gives me great pleasure, is the College of Science Distinguished Teaching membership. Cycling off as Chair is Steve May. increase in the size of the Alumni News Award and Michell Hall -Wallace obtained We thank him for his efforts in getting our section. It is wonderful to get photos and news increased funding for the computer laboratory Advisory Board up and running. Will Wilkinson from all of you. It gives all of us here great for undergraduate education. Our very active was elected as the new Chair. Will brings his pride to hear that oa um 're doing well, undergraduate club, Society of Earth Science expertise in exploration geology for Phelps and we're happy t know that th '. newsletter Students, had a spectacular showing at the Dodge, an important company with direct ties helps in keeping in ouch. I wish yoall a good Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and a great to Arizona. One of the issues the Board summer. field trip to northern Sonora, including a visit discussed was the upcoming University Capital to the famous Cananea mine. Undergraduate Campaign and how the Department should and graduate students also enjoyed a start its own campaign to endow scholarships, page 2 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 department and are valued for that effort. dinosaur. Kids then fill each cup of an egg I'm not sure I feel "distinguished" in your carton with a mineral or fossil donated by rock News company but I will accept this award in and mining companies. Once the carton is part as a representative of a department full, each child is teamed up with a UA student which certainly deserves recognition for who helps identify the minerals and discusses Around the superior teaching. -Bob Butler their characteristics, value and possible uses. "Kids tend to be fascinated with colorful and Junior Ed Program sparkling things and with dinosaurs," says Pete Department Kresan, faculty advisor to SESS. "It's a hook, but we try to go a lot deeper than the hook." Draws 5,000 Kids Almost 5,000 kids were hooked this year! Bob Butler Receives College of Science CLUE Gets Face Lift Visualizing geologic features in three Distinguished dimensions is one of the greatest challenges for beginning geoscientists. Michelle Hall - Teaching Award Wallace, Robert Butler and Peter Kresan were recently funded by the Learning Technologies Partnership at UA to help students improve their visualization skills through a number of methods. Students in their introductory courses will explore topographic geologic maps using software that shows the relationship between the two dimensional map and the three dimensional world. Students at all levels will learn to manipulate and create digital maps using GIS, which allows the user to create custom maps on demand using large databases of information. The team recently developed a GIS -based activity that investigates the impact of groundwater withdrawal in the Society of over the past 50 (SESS) presented its popular Junior Education working on others related to mineral exploration, Program in conjunction with the Tucson Gem plate tectonics, and seismic and volcanic hazards. and Mineral Show this February. Kids begin The grant provides $21,000 to upgrade the program in an exhibit area where they the Internet connections in classrooms and touch rocks, minerals, fossils, and dinosaur purchase six new computers for the Computer In recognition of his outstanding classroom bones. They look at speciments through a Lab for Undergraduate Education (CLUB). teaching, Bob Butler has been awarded the microscope, tackle an interactive geosciences They are seeking additional funds to upgrade College of Science Distinguished Teaching computer program, check out a 3 -D map ofthe remaining computers in the CLUB lab over Award. Bob consistently receives superb Arizona and compare their height to that of a the next year. evaluations from students for his commitment both to a quality education and to the students themselves. Aformidable education innovator within the department, Bob has driven much of the department's curriculum development and has also achieved NSF funding for educational efforts. Something I reflect on occasionally is the special culture and sense of community which our department possesses regarding our teaching functions. This is a department in which all faculty take their teaching seriously and the department staff (in my case primarily Norm Meader and Jo Ann Overs) provide major assistance which allows us to teach well. There are many excellent instructors in this department from whom I have learned much about teaching. Primary examples for me are Pete Kresan, Randy Richardson, George Gehrels, Michelle Hall - Wallace, and Julie Libarkin. It is particularly noteworthy that faculty and students who put major effort into their teaching are recognized within our

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 3 in French and Spanish, Peter then fulfilled and challenges to students. He possessed a In Memory of military obligations by working in an American childlike ability to seek unconventional Friends Service Committee -United Nations solutions to classic geologic problems. Peter project in community development in rural would often claim that he knew little of El Salvador, Central America. petrology, or detailed structural geologic Before starting his PhD work, Peter and analysis, or geophysics.Then, in the next his wife Darlene next lived in Zion Nationalbreath, he would pose a question to a Park, where Peter was a ranger. Here he specialist in one of those fields which cut to created the cross section showing the relationship the heart of a fundamental unanswered between Bryce, Zion and the Grand Canyon. problem.It was well understood that Peter Park visitors who buy maps showing how the did not do this as some sort of exercise in geology of these famous regions correlate go intellectual bullyism. Anyone who knew Peter home with a piece of Peter's work. would tell you that such an act would be very Peter obtained his PhD degree from the unlike this gentle person.Instead, those University of New Mexico where, the story penetrating questions were evidence of a goes, he told his advisor he wanted to driving intellectual curiosity supported by an understand the Cordillera from Alaska to the unusual command of the geological and tip of South America. Indeed Coney studied geophysical literature. first -hand the geology of the Peruvian Andes, But Peter Coney was not only an northern Alaska, the Tasman Orogen of extraordinary thinker and an important Australia, and the Pyrenees of Spain as well as contributor to geological research. In addition his home turf in the Southwestern United to his science, he taught very popular courses States.Through these experiences he and was an unparalleled mentor to his developed an intuition for geological graduate students. One of the traits Coney's processes that allowed him to develop colleagues and students most admired him fundamental concepts of how the Earth works. for was his gentle, supportive yet challenging Peter's first faculty position was at teaching style.Peter had an extraordinary Peter J. Coney Middlebury College in Vermont. There he was ability to inspire students with a drive to so popular, colleagues say, that years later unravel the Earth's puzzles presented by the Peter J. Coney, 69, who retired in July when his name was mentioned in a speech geologic record in mountain systems. Alumni 1998, died of lymphoma February 20 here in by UA colleague George Davis, the audience of the Geosciences Department who worked Tucson. broke into applause. Peter had the power to on the legendary "Coney Project " -students' Peter was highly respected in his field as do that.Peter joined the UA Geosciences independent and in -depth studies of a chosen a keen and original thinker who trailblazed a Department in December 1975 where hegeologic area -often say it was one of their number of important concepts (core complexes, became the cornerstone of an influential group most valuable educational experiences and a "suspect" terranes, the accidents of plate in tectonics. William Dickinson later joined this definite asset in their professional careers, interactions, etc.). "We have indeed lost a giant group to form what had to be one of the most citing him as "a great educator and an among us," commented Professor Greg Davis powerful tectonic programs in the world. extraordinary role model." Peter Coney was of USC upon learning of Coney's death. Peter Coney recently received a College without question one of the best educators in Raised in Maine, Peter earned a master's of Science Career Distinguished Teaching the geological sciences. degree in geology from the University ofAward. Nominating letters from colleagues Peter is survived by his wife Darlene, their Maine and a geological engineering degree cited Peter's unique perspective on the son Michel and their daughter Marian. from L'Ecole National Superieure du Petrole mountain systems of the world and his highly in France, where he carried out geologic field effective teaching style combining inspiration investigations in the French Alps. Fluent both and encouragement with high expectations

To Peter Coney the teacher who turned science into art and made an art out of science, who sought truth in every student, who taught his students to care for details without losing the mountain behind the rocks, who gave us knowledge and broadened our understanding. To the geologist, a cornerstone of his field, primus inter pares. To the pilgrim of the mountains who revealed their architecture both in rigorous concept and serene aesthetics, who, based on facts simple and tangible, made a creed of "if it happened, it is possible ". To the philosopher and the scientist. To the keen and sharp mind; to the boundless spirit. To the kind and understanding person, humble and modest. To the artist, to Peter Coney. Peter and Darlene (photo by David Richards). -Elena Shoshitaisvili and Sergio Castro -Reino page 4 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 Peter Coney: An Appreciation

These reminiscences are excerpted from a Peter would often describe a person In order to understand Peter you have to memory book put together by PhD candidate as "civilized." It was a simple term that he know that he was brought up as a traditional Elena Shoshitaishvili to be presented to Peter's used, but one he chose carefully;it Quaker. Quakers are taught to only speak, in family. encapsulated a person's character and a a meeting for example, when they feel moved. quality encompassing the highest standards They are supposed to be succinct and not Deter was a paradox in some ways. As repeat themselves. So this one trip I took down capable of soaring flights of fresh to Hermosillo with Peter, I made up my mind:. intellectual imagination as any scientist in the I wasn't going to speak until he spoke. We world, and just as quick as anyone alive to were halfway down to Hermosillo before he abandon worn out theories, he could also be said anything! -Paul Damon stubborn as a mule once an idea had become firmly embedded in his unique brain. Those was in teaching that Peter's real nature and two facets of his scientific style were but flip calling lay. Many students who passed sides of the same coin. Blessed with an innate It through the University of Arizona, and confidence in his own judgment, Peter saw experienced Peter's courses on Orogenic Belts, no sense in continued allegiance to concepts will never forget the inspirational experience that failed his personal test of validity, nor any that they enjoyed. All of his colleagues hear reason to back off from his own ideas in the this memory regularly, even from geologists face of criticism. His brand of geoscience was who were students here ten or twenty years in some ways a solitary effort, yet he never lacked for followers and his sphere of ago. Peter rejoiced (no other word applies) in the inspired transmission of understanding, intellectual influence was always a widening whether from himself to a class, to an circle, like the ripples on a pond into which a individual, or from others to himself. He was stone is cast. - William Dickinson doubly appreciative of students who took what he gave them and moved beyond it to Sometimes Peter would let me do new thoughts and ideas. He rejoiced equally something knowing that it was wrong. I when students or colleagues conveyed new guess he wanted me to learn from my understanding to him. As in the research domain, his praise and gratitude to someone experience. The best example of it is the ugly (photo by George Davis) green maps of North America hanging on the from whom he felt he had learned something, walls of Peter's lab. The last time I saw Peter, of humanity. Our conversations always had a or to a student who had developed we were talking about something, and he strong impact on me and always left me exceptional insight, was very uplifting. looked at the maps, so I asked, "Peter, why feeling more "civilized," for Peter had a way - Jonathan Patchett did you let me color them into such ugly of moving the people with whom he spoke. colors ?" He laughed and said, "To color maps Most of all, Peter was a civilized man, an eter's papers were imaginative and the way that they talk to you, Elena, is an art." individual who embodied the very best in thought provoking. Of course, the papers -Elena Shoshitaishvilihuman qualities and civility. His being has reflected the man -imagination, intuition, enriched us all. -Roy Johnson genius. -Joaquin Ruiz

Cordilleran tectonics and North America plate motion The growth of Western North America Peter J. Coney David L. Jones, Allan Cox, Peter J. Coney, Myrl Beck American Journal of Science Vol. 272 Summer, 1972 Scientific American Vol. 247 27 November 1982

Cordilleran Benioff Zones Tectonostratigraphic terranes and mineral resource Peter J. Coney, Steven J. Reynolds distributions in Mexico Nature Vol. 270 1977 M. F. Campa, Peter J. Coney Canadian Journal of Earth Science Vol. 20 1983 Mesozoic -Cenozoic Cordilleran plate tectonics Peter J. Coney Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: Cenozoic Geological Society of America, Memoir 152 1978 extensional relics of Mesozoic compression Peter J. Coney, Tekla A. Harms Geological development of metamorphic core complexes Geology Vol. 12 1984 George H. Davis, Peter J. Coney Geology Vol. 7 1979 The Lachlan belt of eastern Australia and Circum - Pacific tectonic evolution Cordilleran suspect terranes Peter J. Coney Peter J. Coney, David L. Jones, James W. H. Monger Tectonophysics Vol. 214 1992 Nature Vol. 288 27 November 1980

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 5 North American Continental Surface Dominated by Caledonian -Appalachian Detritus for 300 Million Years Jonathan Patchett

A team of the Department's researchers that formed in have discovered that sediments from thethe eastern Caledonian -Appalachian mountain system United States were deposited over the entire Northd ur i n g American continent 450 million years ago, and Ordovician time dominated the sedimentary system until 150 450 million million years ago. The dominance of this years ago. sediment was only terminated when a new Patchett mountain system, the western Cordillera, and co- workers appeared and in turn became the major used the source. The findings were presented in Science naturally on 29 January 1999. Itis the first time occurring, long - geologistshavedocumentedwith lived radioactive Upper left: Folded miogeoclinal sedimentary rocks in the Rocky Mountains of geochemistry the origins of sediment at the i s o t o p e Alberta. Upper right: Bill Dickinson deciding not to take a sample from disrupted scale of a whole continent. The group of Samarium -147, stratigraphy in the Ouachita sequence of Arkansas /Oklahoma. Bottom: researchers include Jonathan Patchett, that decays to Graduate student Carmala Garzione and Gerry Ross of the GSC collecting supported by former graduate students James Neodymium - from turbidite units in Yukon. Gleason (PhD '94), Nevine Boghossian (MS 143 to find the '94) and Carmala Garzione (MS '96), former origin of shales created by the compaction of years ago, at the end of the Precambrian era, undergraduates Michelle Roth (BS '97) and the sediments over time. They studied sedimentary deposits around North America Bret Canale (BS '96), and with the active sedimentary rocks from all parts of North were regional deposits. Sedimentary rocks in collaboration of faculty Bill Dickinson, George America, from Texas to far northern Canada. the Canadian Arctic and also Alberta clearly Gehrels and Joaquin Ruiz. Gerry Ross of the They found shale formed from sediment that had been eroded from the ancient rocks of Geological Survey of Canada is also a key was eroded from the same mountains across the Canadian shield. These rocks date from member of the group. North America from 450 million years ago between 3 billion to 2.5 billion years old, and The river -borne sediments deposited over right up to the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic from between 2.0 billion to 1.7 billion years North America for 300 million years came era, 150 million years ago old. By contrast, sedimentary rocks in the from the Caledonian Mountains that formed Before the Caledonian -Appalachian eastern and southern United States formed in Greenland and the Appalachian Mountains mountains existed, as far back as 600 million -cont'd p. 7 page 6 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 N. American Continental come from the distant Paleozoic mountains. This The paleogeographic and evolutionary Surface cont'd material was reworked, perhaps over and over aspect of this story is that when mountains again in some regions, for 300 million years. are made, they can yield overwhelming from the younger continental crust present At 150 million years ago, there is another quantities of sedimentary material that under most of the Great Plains. The pre -450 rapid change, well known from Cordilleran dominate the surface of that continent until million years picture is regionalized, according studies of many groups. The Cordillera begins the next mountains appear. Big changes in to the findings. The sedimentary material was to grow across western North America, and the ultimate provenance of sediments are eroded from rocks in the hinterland, much as new and different kinds of sedimentary associated with mountain building events, an the Mississippi River carries material down detritus spread across parts of the continent. axiom that graduates of this department who from the Mississippi Basin today. But, However, the Cordillera has not yet achieved enjoyed the teachings of Bill Dickinson and suddenly, at 450 million years, everything the same dominance as a sediment source, Peter Coney should find quite credible!. changes. All the sedimentary rock has the as was the case for the Caledonian - same Nd isotopic signature, and it appears to Appalachian mountains. Center for Earth Surface Processes Established Owen Davis

On March 4 -6, 17 scientists from the UA met with 35 of their colleagues from the USGS to discuss collaborative research and a joint "Center for Earth Surface Processes" (CESP) at the UA. The lead programs for CESP San Pedro River field trip participants Owen Davis, Todd Hinkley, Dave Kirtland, Dave research are to be the Dept. of Geosciences Miller, Brenda Houser, Bob Kamilli, Don Gautier, Rick Forester. and the Geologic Divison of the USGS. However, the Laboratory of Tree Ring collaboration is embodied in the Mineral Research, the Dept. of Hydrology and the Resources Center which currently includes four Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) Geosciences faculty, two USGS scientists, and are to be important partners. The meeting 18 graduate students (http: // began with 25 talks on climate change, www.geo.arizona.edu /cmr /) . ecosystem and landscape impact, water CESP will focus largely on climate change, resources and hazards, and environmental surficial geological processes, land use, and effects of resource exploitation. This wasother geologic phenomena that affect the followed by a USGS Managers meeting, a tour landscape, ecosystems, and human use of the of Geosciences laboratory facilities, and a land. Both the department and the USGS will dinner at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc benefit from the intellectual interactions, Hill. The next day (Saturday) introduced USGS opportunities for scientific collaboration, scientists to Southern Arizona with a field trip shared resources, and scientific focus that CESP to the upper drainage of the San Pedro River. will provide. The enhanced ties to the UA will Details of the meeting are available at http: // benefit the USGS by providing scientific and geo. arizona .edu /Antevs /surficial.html and staffing flexibility, access to students, and ties http : / /climchange.cr.usgs.gov /cesp/ to local and regional constituencies. The UA The creation of CESP continues a long- will profit by participating in the long -term standing relationship between the USGS and scientific stability and planning provided by the department, which includes many of ourties to the USGS and by enhanced funding faculty who are former USGS scientists, and and scientific opportunities for students. the many Geosciences alumni who now Initially the CESP scientists will consist of occupy positions throughout the USGS. This geoscientists currently at the UA. However, USGS and UA geoscientists discuss historic relationship became an active collaboration within two years it is planned that USGS erosion of Curry Draw. L -R: Bob Kamilli, Don in 1989 when geologists from the Minerals scientists will be hired to fill CESP positions, Gautier, Owen Davis, Paul Carrara, Elliot Spiker Division moved into the fourth floor of the and senior USGS scientists may also join the and Keith Howard. Gould- Simpson building. The collaborative Center. Bob Thompson, Team Chief Scientist, research that resulted from our close proximity Global Change and Climate History, Denver, resulted in a host of research publications, and Owen Davis, Geosciences, are the acting theses, and dissertations. The spirit of co- directors of CESP.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 7 SESS Goes to Northern Sonora, Mexico Peter Kresan ..

Left: Floyd Gray reviews the geology exhibited by a satellite image of the area. Right: The gangand the primary crusher at the Nacozari Mine.

The Society of Earth Science Students the ecological story. (SESS) had one of their best spring break field Near Moctezume, Yar trips ever this March to Northern Sonora, guided us into a nicely Mexico. Special guests included a KUAT Public formed lava tube to visit TV crew who filmed the trip for a segment of a small colony of bats. The Desert Speaks to be aired next year; Floyd We left the lava tube at Gray and Bob Miller from the USGS; Yar dusk with the bats Petryszyn, a UA ecologist; Fernando Vasque streaming out of its Lopez, a geology student from the Univ. of entrance in search of Sonora; and Jose Luis Rodriguez, a geologist their evening snacks. from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Ore deposition was Mexico. In all, we had a wonderful group of the focus of our last day 22 students, faculty and guests. The six -day trip explored the rich natural and cultural history of Northern Sonora. Some of the geologic highlights included visits Above: Fernando Lopez and Arturo Baez are on to the 1887 earthquake fault scarp, camera with a "mouse ". Left: Arturo and our Arizpe and other communities hosts for the Nacozari party. which were impacted by the quake interpretation of the gossan in the leached (estimated to be a magnitude 7 cap. Most of us could not resist the temptation plus); the hot springs at Aconchi, to collect, including Mark Rollog, who where students sampled spring collected samples for his graduate studies. water for a geochemical study and Although the geology and other natural enjoyed its therapeutic value after a history explored on this trip was especially diverse few days of dusty travel; Moctezume and interesting, the biggest highlight for me was to explore lava tubes in Quaternary the great group of students and colleagues who basalt flows on which grows the participated. Arturo and Sean did a superb job northern extent of the dry tropical thorn scrub on the trip with a tour of the very impressive, with trip organization; Alisa Miller, Mandi Lyons forest; and the impressive Nacozari copper mine. modern Nacozari open pit copper mine. and Michelle Wagner had plenty of SESS T- shirts Undergraduate students Arturo Baez and Mining in the Nacozari district goes back to on hand for our hosts; Dan Quinlan and Sergio Sean Haggerty were the principle organizers before the arrival of the Spanish missionaries. helped Arturo and Floyd with English /Spanish of the trip. Both are involved in anIn 1979, Mexicana de Cobre began translation; the CB radios flared with almost independent study project involving the production from the La Caridad deposit. The continuous conversations about roadside geochemistry of hot and warm water springs major elements of a porphyry copper system geology thanks to Bob Casavant, Jan Lacanette associated fault systems. Floyd Gray, who is are still very well displayed in the open pit of and others. And then there was the party on our involved in an international field study of this La Caridad. Senior geologist, Jose Contla last night in Nacozari where we were the guests region, has invited Arturo and Sean to Jimenez and Gildardo Montenegro Palomino, of the Honorable Gerardo Baez, the Mayor of contribute to a USGS open file report about an ecologist, gave us a very informative tour. Nacozari, and other city officials. The food, the the region. Yar Petryszyn enriched the Graduate student Sergio Castro -Reino did a music, and the hospitality were fantastic -a interdisciplinary character of the trip by adding short course on the identification and perfect end to a fabulous field trip. page 8 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 Active Tectonics Goes to "the Valleys" George Davis

Above: Fault scarps in the Volcanic Tablelands near Bishop. Left: The gang, near the 1872 Owens Valley scarp. (photos by Susan Beck) rhombochasm created at a releasing bend in a strike -slip system. Walker Lake, as a result, is DEEP, and is used as a U.S. Navy site for testing out submersibles and submarines. Creepy place. Old bathtub rings around the lake serve as markers for fault displacements. Somehow staying clear of late- winter storms, we circled around to Mono Lakes and Long Valley, where we thought hard about the Long Valley Caldera, the eruption of the Bishop Tuff, the resurgence(s), and present - day seismicity. Then we drove to Bishop and up onto the Volcanic Tablelands, which for structural geologists is a kind of mecca. Clearly expressed in the landscape are normal fault scarps that cut the top of the Bishop Tuff. The faulting is active, the scarps are fresh, and there Sue Beck and George Davis co- taught and geomorphic expressions of scarp systems. are dozens and dozens of faults. Because of Active Tectonics during the Spring '98 Some of the scarps we examined were 80m tall, this, it is possible to clearly see the transfer semester, and one of the high points was their inclined at steep angles of repose, and composed zones between overstepping and overlapping field trip to "the Valleys ": Death, Fish Lake, usually of alluvial fanglomerates. Typically these faults. We all ran out of film on the Tablelands! Owens, and Long (March 20 -26). Clem Chase scarps were found to be somewhat eroded along Our final stops were along the Owens came too, contributing insights all along the their tops, creating a little crestal rounding, and Valley fault, where we examined the way. Karl Mueller, active tectonist from Univ. in- filled a bit at their bases by colluvial wedges. impressive scarps that formed during the 1872 of Colorado, brought six students from The most fun for us was, in each case, trying to earthquake. This was a biq quake which Boulder to the Valleys. evaluate the actual direction of fault slip and created many meters of both strike -slip and The purpose of the trip was to betterfiguring out the "partitioning" of strike -slip and dip -slip motion, with the ratio being understand the nature of the easterly part of dip -slip movement. Markers to assess thisapproximately 6:1. Parts of the scarp were the broad plate boundary between the North included offset ridge crests, offset lateral completely un- eroded, giving us a glimpse of American and Pacific Plates. Thus we felt it moraines, offset ancient shorelines, and the like. what a fresh scarp looks like in fanglomerate. important to examine active tectonic While in the Death Valley pull -apart basin We all look back on an experience that expressions along the Eastern California Shear we checked out the classic turtlebacks, and literally opened our eyes to active tectonic Zone and Death Valley. Two years ago Beck looked at strike -slip scarps along the Furnace landscapes, and to the broad and diffuse nature and Davis took their students to the western Creek fault zone. Northward from Death Valley of an important plate boundary. We concluded part of the same plate boundary, as expressed we examined the most spectacular fault scarps that the plate boundary movement is in downtown Los Angeles. in the coterminus U.S., exposed on the accommodated elegantly through the The trip was about FAULT SCARPS, ones western side of Fish Lake Valley. combination of both strike -slip and normal in every flavor imaginable. Karl Mueller taught Further northward we visited Walker Lake, movements, as well as some occasional volcanic us the ABCs of dealing with the neotectonicyet another pull -apart feature, a classic blasts.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 9 ALUMNI NEWS 1940s for 18 years. He is currently leading an 1980s Integrated Study Team in the Eastern Division ROBERT H. HIGGS (BS) retired as Director JOE BARTOLINO (BS '80), following five years and his main interests lie in reservoir of the Geophysics Dept. of the Naval as a Navy pilot, joined Newmont Mining in characterization, sequence stratigraphy Oceanographic Office in July 1987. He's 1985 and has worked throughout Latin (particularly in continental, fluvial domain) and currently living in Sevierville, TN. America. In his present position he is fault sealing analysis. (marquezps @pdvsa.com) responsible for Newmont's exploration 1970s programs in the entire Andes region. Joe MICHAEL H. RAUSCHKOLB (BS '73, MS '83) resides in Lima with his family and writes that is with US Borax as Senior Land Agent in MATT he truly enjoys life in South America. California. (m_rauschkolb @yahoo.com) GREENHOUSE (BS'79) became GARY COLGAN (MS '89) is alive and well in BART (MS '85) and KAREN (MS '87) interested in Salt Lake City where he's still skiing, kayaking, SUCHOMEL have returned to the US after six astronomy after and mountain biking as much as possible. In years in Chile, where Bart was Regional receiving his BS 1997 Gary started his own groundwater firm, Exploration Manager -South America for here. He worked Aquifer Science, Inc. After years working for WMC, and Karen was Coordinator, Chile for with Steward Montgomery Watson, including a year in HSI Geotrans, a hydrogeologic consulting Observatory for Guam supervising a large drilling project forfirm. Bart continues to work for WMC, an several years and the US Air Force, he was ready to retire from Australian mining company, with new global then moved to the rigors of the corporate world. With his own responsibilities. Karen, who worked for HSI for Laramie, WY, firm Gary believes it should theoretically be 10 years, is now heading into semi -retirement where he received easier for him to get away for powder to do contract work and care for their three a PhD in Astrophysics in '89. Matt then worked mornings at Alta! In 1994 he married Darlene boys, Bryce (8), Luke (6) and Jessee (3). for seven years at the Smithsonian in Batatian, recently appointed the Salt Lake County (suchomel @oneimage.com) Washington and later at NASA Goddard Space Geologist. Gary would love to hear from his fellow Flight Center in Maryland where he is a Squids. (gcolgan @lgcy.com) 1990s Deputy Project Scientist for the Next Generation Space Observatory (NASA's VIVIAN G. DELL'ACQUA (BS '87) has been replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope). working for UNIMIN in North Carolina as a Matt has two kids: Molly (6) and Ben (4), and Research Scientist in minerals processing for has been married to Shelley (BS Biology '81, a little over a year. Before that, she worked for UA) for 19 years. (matt @stars.gsfc.nasa.edu) BHP Minerals in Reno, NV.

JOHN SCHLODERER (MS '74)is an LISA ELY (MS Exploration Geologist for BHP World Minerals. '85, PHD '92) John was based in London from 1993 to 1997 visited the where he worked in eastern Europe, Russia department last and central Asia. Currently based in Perth, he fall while is now working on porphyry copper attending the exploration in Pakistan and Indonesia. John Pr oje ct makes special note of PETER LARSON'S (MS Kaleidoscope '76) Bear Down Den receipt (Spring '98 Workshopon ELENA CENTENO (PHD '94) gave a talk in Newsletter): "Pete, that must be your only r e s e a r c h the department ( "Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution receipt. Tom, Bill and John S. carried you in opportunities for of Mexico from the Sedimentary Record ") in '74!" (schloderer.john.jp @bhp.com.au) studentsin a November. Elena is on the faculty at the research -rich Instituto de Geologia at UNAM in Mexico City. environment. Lisa is on the (centeno @servidor.unam.mx) faculty with the Geology Dept. at Central Washington Univ. LAURA CATHCART (MS'90) writes, "I receive (ely @cwu.edu) the newsletter and enjoy reading about the latest and greatest there. It seems like ages PASCUAL MARQUEZ (BS '80) ago that I was there, and yet it was the most

writes that theFall'98 important experience that I have had in Newsletter "was a very geophysics and what I learned there is always pleasant surprise that made me with me. " Laura worked for IT Corporation remember some of the great in the geophysics department from 1990 until timesI shared with teachers 1997. She then joined Converse Consultants and classmates from fall '77 to in California as chief geophysicist where she summer '81, butitalso managed all geophysics work for Converse for John Schloderer (MS '74), third from left, with the BHP Minerals reminded me how much I almost two years. She recently joined Discovery Group at the Reko Diq porphyry copper project in owed to that school." Pascual Spectrum Geophysics astheir chief Pakistan. is living in Venezuela where he geophysicistinSouthernCalifornia. has been working for PDVSA (cathcart @vividnet.com) page 10 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 ALUMNI NEWS SUMIT CHAKRABORTY (PHD '90) received Wisconsin. Gregory is currently a postdoc at NEW ARRIVALS his Habilitation Degree, basically a German the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology at post -doctoral degree, from the Univ. oftheUniv.ofBerninSwitzerland. DAVID (PHD '94) and KRISTINE Cologne in February '98. Sumit then accepted (roselle @mpi.unibe.ch) COBLENTZ, Kai (boy) Sept. 27, 1998. a Professorship, the Chair of Experimental and JEFF WARREN (BS '94) was married last CARL (MS '94) and MICHA (MS '93, PHD Theoretical Petrology, at the Institute of '99) YOUNG -MITCHELL, Catalina (girl), August to Missy Graves of Birmingham, AL. Mineralogy in the Univ. of Bochum, Germany. Nov. 10, 1998. (Sumit.Chakraborty @rz.ruhr -uni- bochum.de) He's left Phillips Petroleum and will begin his PhD program in geology at the Univ. of North STACEY KIDMAN (MS '93) and JOE TOM DILLEY (MS'90) took a month -long Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall where he'll work PLASSMAN, Ryland (boy), Dec. 29, 1998. with seismic and sequence stratigraphy of the vacation in Florida where he enjoyed kayaking, STEVE MYERS (MS '90, PHD '97) and South China Sea. Jeff will get a jump start by snorkeling and birding and attended a shuttle KATIE LONG (MS '94), Adele (girl), March launch with MARK TINKER (MS '93, PHD collecting data this June from a UA Navy 11, 1999. '97). He returned to a cold and snowy Alaska research vessel. where he started teaching at the local PABLO YAÑEZ (MS '90) and SILVIA TANDECIARZ, Cristobal (boy), July 25, community college in January. 1998. BRIAN HORTON (PHD '99) recently relocated from Los Angeles, where he had a postdoc at UCLA, to Baton Rouge. He says it's "something of a cultural transition." Brian will get a chance to briefly settle in at Louisiana State Univ., where he's accepted a position as Assistant Professor, before heading off on another long jaunt into the field (three months in Tibet and then two in Bolivia). He can't believe he's getting paid to do this! (horton @geol.lsu.edu) The Other Brian, BRIAN CURRIE (PHD '98), now a postdoc at the Univ. of Chicago, will be starting his new job as Assistant Professor at Miami (Ohio) Univ. in the fall. (bscurrie @midway.uchicago.edu)

JEANETTE INGRAM (BS '97) is employed with Physical Resource Engineering in Tucson as staff geologist and computer draftsperson. (jeanette @pirl.lpl.arizona.edu)

AGATA KOWALEWSKA (MS '96) and MICHAL KOWALEWSKI (PHD '95), and daughter Ula, send their greetings from Drilling ahead to 15, 000 ft, the Agata Prospect Blacksburg, VA. After spending the last two on the western foothills of the Eastern Cordillera years in Europe (mostly in their native Poland of Colombia. and in Germany), they have moved back to the US, this time to the east coast where PEDRO RESTREPO (MS '91, PHD '95), with Michal is Assistant Professor in Geological Conoco in Houston, writes, "To reach the stage Sciences at Virginia Tech and Ula attends the pictured here, I conducted two months of surface Rainbow Raiders pre -school! mapping, got involved in the acquisition of 500 km of 2D seismic and processing, did the seismic/ KIK (CATHY) MOORE (MS '93) is the structural interpretation, ran economics and coordinator of the Earth Science Information risking, laid out a prognosis...a process that took Center of the Arizona Geological Survey nearly two years. This is my first well! I love the (AZGS). Ask her about Arizona topo maps! challenge. Even though success has been (Moore_Cathy @pop.state.az.us) estimated to be 1in 9, this well gives me an opportunity to directly test a model. The KATHLEEN NICOLL (PHD '98) is working responsibility is enormous -in excess of $30 with Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., the million has been invested. It is commonly said San Ramon Unit, where she's already been that nobody is remembered for drilling a dry doing a lot of travelling for the company. hole, but everybody will remember you if you (nika @chevron.com) had the opportunity to drill and never did (leaving someone else to come along and make a GREGORY ROSELLE (BS '90) received his MS significant discovery)!" (PACE @usa.conoco.com) ('93) and PhD ('97) from the Univ. of

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 11 ALUMNI NEWS In Memory of JERRY HARBOUR (PHD '77), who retired in ALUMNI PROFILE 1990 as an administrative law judge with the licensing board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, died on Sept. 14, 1988 in Falls DIANA HALLMAN (BS '97) Church, VA. Jerry worked in the military geology and Currently, I am working on my thesis with astrogeology branches of the USGS early in Dr. Larry D. Agenbroad (NAU) and Dr. Daniel his career. He was a researcher for the Institute C. Fisher (Univ. of Michigan). This research for Defense Analysis before joining the Atomic focuses on oxygen isotopic analyses of Energy Commission in 1972 where he was chief biogenic phosphate from southwestern of the site safety research branch at the NRC. He proboscideans. I will use this analysis in became a technical law judge in the early 1980s. conjunction with growth line studies of A native of Coleman, TX, Jerry attended mammoth tusk material to infer climatic the Merchant Marine Academy and served in seasonality, season of death, and life history the Air Force in Germany in the early 1 950s. of the last few years of each animal's life. I He received BS and MS degrees in geology have also returned to the UA (they can't seem from the Univ. of New Mexico and his to get rid of me) to conduct the oxygen doctorate from the UA in 1977. isotope analyses in Dr. Jay Quade's lab. Tusks Survivors include his wife of 47 years, and cheek teeth of proboscideans record the Carol, three children and one grandchild. life history of the animal including age, sex, Carol writes that they and their children were age at sexual maturity, calving, and season of denizens of Polo Village while Jerry did his death. These parameters provide information coursework and research for his PhD and that of the ecological stress, nutritional and they have many fond memories of Arizona. predation patterns. By comparing the southwestern mammoth material with Michigan mastodon material and South NILE O. JONES (BS '68, MS '77) died in Dakota mammoth material, I will be able to October 1996. In 1980 Nile and his wife Sue look at life histories and climatic signatures moved to Las Vegas, NV where Nile was across the continent. In addition to providing employed by Holmes and Narver (geothermal detailed environmental and life history energy surveys in Nevada), E G & G Special information, this research will aid in Projects (Dept. of Defense work) and various paleoenvironmental interpretations and allow contractors associated with nuclear waste for testing assumptions implicit in extinction disposal at the proposed Yucca Mountain hypotheses. repository. Diana Hallman has just been accepted to the Throughout my undergraduate career, I Univ. of Florida where she will be working on her was supported by the AGI through their doctoral studies in Zoology starting in Fall 1999. Minority Scholarship Program. This support RICHARD R. WEAVER (MS '65) died on She has been awarded the Lucy Dickinson was essential as I pursued my undergraduate August 3, 1998. Richard graduated from Fellowship in Vertebrate Paleontology and a four - degree. I am grateful for this assistance and Franklin and Marshall College in 1958 with a year Fellowship. am now pleased to serve AGI as a member of BS in geology, receiving his MS from the UA the Steering Committee to increase in 1965. In 1960 he began working for the My name is Diana Hallman and I am in professionalism in the 21st century. The Bear Creek Mining Co. on the Sierrita and Twin the final year of study for my MS at Northern committee is putting together a conference Buttes copper discoveries in Arizona. Five years Arizona Univ. in the Quaternary Studies that will be offered for undergraduate minority later he moved to Quintana Minerals Co. Program. I graduated from the UA with a BS geoscientists and is proposed for Spring 1999. In 1967 Richard joined Exxon Minerals in Geosciences in Fall 1 997. I am a Tucson native In my doctoral work I would like to Co. for a 13 -year tenure.In 1980 Richard and of Mexican heritage. I am the first one in continue my research in oxygen isotopes as joined Atlas Corp. as its president and chief my extended family to receive a degree from a they are quite useful in reconstructing executive officer. Under his management he four -year university and also the first one in my paleoenvironments. In addition, I would like transformed the company into a successful family to pursue graduate education. to look deeper in time at earlier Miocene gold and exploration development and While studying at the UA, I worked on proboscideans and the role they played in the mining company. Richard left Atlas in 1993 taphonomic studies of marine invertebrates Great American Faunal Interchange. After to establish a consulting practice, the under the guidance of Dr. Karl W. Flessa. I felt completion of my doctoral program, I would Lodestone Group Inc., where he gave his very fortunate to be able to conduct research like to obtain a position in academia that will clients the benefits of his expertise as an as an undergraduate. This experience was allow me to continue my research in explorationist, an ore finder and a manager. invaluable to me. It prepared me for my proboscidean paleobiology. As a faculty Richard's priorities were always to his familygraduate studies and greatly enhanced my member, I look forward to the opportunity to andsciencefirst -althoughfishing application to my graduate program. It also recruit and mentor the next generation of occasionally took precedence. played an integral role in the success of my scientists. I hope to serve as a good role model He is survived by his wife Catherine and application in the 1997 NSF Minority for women and minorities in the sciences. two daughters. Fellowship competition. (dianahallman @yahoo.com) page 12 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 ALUMNI NEWS made an appointment with John Sumner. He MARK ZOBACK RECEIVES ALUMNI knocked on John's door and said something to the effect, "I have a couple of questions about geophysics." John grabbed Mark's hand ACHIEVEMENT AWARD and said, "Welcome aboard!" Afraid to leave, Mark became a geophysicist! Actually, once Geophysics at Stanford. Mark then began a Mark started to work on geophysics problems career as a geophysicist at the USGS, where he knew the had found his calling. he was Chief of the In -Situ Stress Measurement Mark's professional work has focused on Project, Deputy Chief of the Office of forces in the crust. He teamed up with his wife, Earthquake Studies, and finally Chief of the Mary Lou Zoback, to demonstrate that stress Branch of Tectonophysics. In 1984 Mark went indicators like earthquakes and bore hole back to Stanford as a professor of Geophysics, breakouts can be used to develop consistent and is recognized as one of the world's leading regional scale stress fields which reflect large experts on the state of stress in the Earth's crust scale tectonic processes. Mark has been a lead and the physics of deep boreholes. investigator on a number of deep continental Mark moved to Tucson when he was 10 drilling programs. The most widely known of years old, and naturally decided to attend the these is the deep hole along the San Andreas hometown university. Visions of geophysics, Fault in southern California. Mark's work has however, did not fill his head. Mark wanted lead to the realization that plate boundaries to be a lawyer -his last name saved him from aretrulyunusualplaces -they are that fate. In the 60s class registration was done extraordinarily weak zones embedded in alphabetically, and by the time "Zoback" was otherwise strong crust. up for registration most of the classes Mark In addition to being a distinguished Mark Zoback (BS '69) wanted were filled. Hearing that Introduction alumni of the Department of Geosciences, to Geology was easy, he decided he ought to Mark has been elected a Fellow of the The 1999 Department of Geosciences at least get rid of his science requirement. The American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of Alumni Achievement Award was presented to instructor, Ed McCullough, proved such an the European Union of Geosciences. He is also Dr. Mark Zoback during the 47th Annual excellent teacher that Mark fell in love withthe recipient of the Kenneth Cuthbertson GeoDaze Symposium. The award is given in earth sciences and any thoughts of torts and Award for Outstanding Service to Stanford recognition of outstanding accomplishments litigation gave way to mountains and Univ. This is Stanford's highest award to faculty by a graduate of the department. Mark earthquakes. Mark began to look around for and staff. Mark received this award for leading received a BS in geophysics from the UA in a specialty. He disliked excessive memorization, a two -year effort to reiise the student judicial 1969, and went on to earn a MS and PhD in so thought he would look into geophysics and system at Stanford. -Terry Wallace

Terry Wallace Presented Outstanding Faculty Advisory Board Award by Geosciences Advisory Board Elects New Chair

The Geosciences Advisory Board awarded Terry Wallace its Outstanding Faculty Award at this year's GeoDaze Symposium. Terry was recognized by the Board for his excellence in seismological research, his contributions to the Geophysics program in the department, and his record of service on both a local and a national level. Terry and his students have made major contributions in understanding the occurrence of deep earthquakes in subduction zones. Terry has also been on the forefront of seismic treaty verification with his work on nuclear Cycling off as Chair of the Geosciences explosions. With the signing of the Advisory Board is Steve May (PhD '85), left, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty comes a with Will Wilkinson (PhD '81), right, elected Ì renewed importance to seismic verification. as the new chair. Retiring board members Terry has been highly visible in Washingtonconsortium and over the last decade he has include Hugo Dummett and Fred Graybeal D.C. recently due to his work on the India served on four major IRIS committees, (MS '62, PhD '72). Newly- elected and Pakistan nuclear explosions last year. including the chair of the executive members are Regina Cupuano (MS '77, PhD '87) of the Univ. of Houston, Stephen Terryisan active leader inthecommittee. Terry is also the newly -elected Incorporated Research Institutions ofPresident of the Seismological Society of Naruk (MS '83, PhD '87) of Shell, and Dave Lofquist (MS '86) of Exxon. Seismology (IRIS), a nation -wide seismology America.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 13 GEODAZE'99.

This year's GeoDaze Symposium gathered students, faculty, alumni, industry folk and friends together on April 8 -9 for the 27th consecutive year of undergraduate and graduate presentations in the earth sciences. Drawing an audience from as far away as Alaska, two poster and three oral sessions kept the extended family of the Department of Geosciences abreast of student earth science research being conducted at the UA. Whereas the general success of GeoDaze is dependent on a number of individuals and institutions, the outstanding quality of student presentations truly separates GeoDaze from its counterpart symposia. The Evaluations Committee, headed by Joy Gillick, pointed out that the calibre of student research presentations underscored the wholesale success of UA geoscience students in a diverse array of disciplines. The Evaluations Committee made significant strides towards improving the feedback and evaluation process this year. By making evaluation forms available to all, organizers worked towards keeping the collaborative and cooperative Top Row (L -R): GeoDaze Award winners Mandi Lyon, Dena Smith and Carmala Garzioni. Bottom nature of the department at the heart of Row (L -R): Pilar Garcia, Sergio Castro Reino, Chris Greenhoot and Eric Jensen. GeoDaze. On a more recreational note, GeoDaze's function as an opportunity for current students and faculty to b e c o m e acquainted and re- acquainted with industry guests and alumni came to fruition at the monumental Left: Undergrads Orestes Morfin, Hillary Brown and Bill Hart at the Poster Session. Right: Long -time GeoDaze supporters Dick GeoDaze bash Jones (BS '56, MS '57) and Bernard Pipkin (PhD '65) take a good look at Frank Mazdab's poster presentation. and Saturday field trip. Joaquin Ruiz's GeoDaze party unified remain a legacy of the influence Peter had on the Advisory Board at its annual GeoDaze witty geologic banter with general merriment, this department's students and our science in meeting. leaving all palettes satiated. Spence Titley lead general. John Lindquist of E.L. Montgomery and the field trip to Silverbell Mine, introducing Mark Zoback of Stanford received the Associates presented that company's generous some to the wondérs of southeastern Arizona department's Distinguished Alumni Award $1000 Best of Show Award to Steve Ahlgren. porphyry copper, while providing a forum for and delivered the GeoDaze '99 keynote talk Finally, as we recover from the organized others to discuss the economic and tectonic entitled "Crustal Faulting and Fluid Flow - chaos that is GeoDaze, we would like to thank implications of such deposits. Some New Ideas about an Old Problem." We and recognize all of the contributors to As in previous GeoDaze Symposia, a salute Dr. Zoback and recognize hisGeoDaze '99. With the help of student number of groups recognized colleagues who contributions to our science. committees, financial benefactors, alumni have made influential contributions to the Terry Wallace was presented with the associates, faculty members and staff support, departmental community and our fields in 1999 Outstanding Faculty Award by the GeoDaze promises to continue to be a source general. With somber and admiring chairman of the Alumni Advisory Board, Steve of pride for all facets of the Department of intentions, we dedicated this year's GeoDaze May, for his recent professional and teaching Geosciences at the UA. to Peter Coney. Itis our belief that the achievements in global seismology. Steve also -Dave Barbeau cooperative nature of GeoDaze is and will updated the department on the progress of page 14 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 GEODAZE AWARDS Montgomery Prize (Best of Show) Steve Ahlgren, Visualizing Complex Structures in Three Dimensions.

Gardner Prize for Field Geology Pilar Garcia, How Does Basement Fold? Let Me Count the Faults.

Best Talk in Geophysics Meredith Nettles, Faulting Mechanism of the Great March 25, 1998 Antarctic Intraplate Earthquake.

2nd Place Talk Carmala Garzione, C and O Isotopic Evidence for Southern Tibetan Plateau Uplift by 11 MYR Ago, Thakkhola Graben, Nepal.

3rd Place Talk Dena Smith, Beetle Mania: Insect Taphonomy in a Recent Playa Lake.

GeoDaze '99 organizers Dave Barbeau, Elena 1st Place Poster Shoshitaishvili and Brian Monteleone stand in Eric Jensen, (1) Mineral Deposits Related to Alkaline Rocks: A GIS Approach; (2) Au front of the poster dedicated to the memory of Mineralization Related to Alkaline Magmas; Cripple Creek, Colorado as an Example. Peter Coney. 2nd Place Poster Chris Greenhoot, Metates Gold Project: A World Class Gold Prospect in Durango, Mexico.

3rd Place Poster (tie) Mandela Lyon, Insect -Mediated Damage on Fossil Leaves: A Preliminary Look at Feeding Damage in the Green River Formation. Sergio Castro -Reino, Patterns of Igneous Activity, Associated Alteration Styles and Possible Links to Mineralization in the Central Sector of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico -Field Results.

Best Undergraduate Presentation Mandela Lyon, Insect- Mediated Damage on Fossil Leaves: A Preliminary Look at Feeding Damage in the Green River Formation.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Kristopher E. Kerry and Hanns Peter -Liermann INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS John Lindquist (MS '92) of E. L. Montgomery and Associates presented the Best of Show Award Keith R. Blair to PhD student Steve Ahlgren. Mary Kay O'Rourke & Paul S. Martin Robert J. & Beth J. Bodnar Anthony B. Ching Bernard W. Pipkin Murray C. Gardner John P. & Helen S. Schaefer James D. Sell James F. Hays Miles G. Shaw John L. Hoelle Jeffrey D. Warren Kerry Inman John C. & Nicea Wilder Richard D. Jones Isaac J. Winograd George A. Kiersch

CORPORATE SPONSORS

ARCO International BHP Copper BHP Minerals Geophysical Society, UA Errol L. Montgomery and Associates, Inc. Sigma Gamma Epsilon, UA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recipients Sonshine Exploration Peter Liermann and Kris Kerry.

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 15 WHERE ARE THEY? We have compiled an alumni list of over 2000. Of these, almost 250 are "lost ". Take aminute to look over these names and if you know the whereabouts of anyone here, please let us know!

1930s 1970s Edwin Taylor Richard Morneau D. Cederstrom Larry Arnold Katherine Taylor Matthew Nelson Frederic Cook Robert Balla David Thayer Lynda Person 1960s James Forbes Peter Beery Mark Theiss Kim Raymond Charles Higdon Harold Aaland Rafael Belaunde Luis Velazquez Luis Ruiz Gomez Carl Lausen Malcolm Alford Karen Bieber Jose Vidal Michael Sewell Walter Ornsby Judith Bray Doyle Brook, Jr. Sheryl Vrba Ernest Shih Neis Peterson R. Cantwell Richard Champney Mary Watson Yehia Sinno David Sears J. Collier William Clark Paul Welber Julia Staines -Hill Lincoln Stewart Donald Cooley James Cook Paul Werst Frederick Stevenson Walter Thomas Edwin Cordes Brian Cooper Gary West Elaine Sutherland Clark Wilson Kenneth Cornelius James Crabtree Robin White Robin Sweeney Herbert Daniel Keith Crandall C. Winter Paula Trever Richard Deane George Curtin John Young Julie Turnross Phillip Denney Thomas Dever Jeffrey Zauderer Ulrich Van Nieuwenhuyse Hassan Diery John Devilbliss Luis Vargas- Mendoza 1940s Thomas Dirks Constance Dodge Evan Wagner William Jones Harvey Durand, III Julio Figueroa Denise Wieland Wayne Kartchnor Kenneth Dyer Linda Foster Laurie Wirt 1980s Wayne Estes Peter Gasperini Cara Wright -Hodge Sergio Garza Allen Gottesfeld Rodney Anderson Toshiko Yasuda Brian Hogan Joan Grimm Banks Bailey John Horton Zvi Grinshpan Richard Balcer 1950s Joe Jemmitt Larry Hughes Richard Barlow David Bissett Robert Jorden Rigel Hurst Jeanne Brooks 1990s Erich Blissenback Deane Kilbourne Peggy Jones Malcom Cleaveland Robert Colby Donald Kubish Louis Knight, Jr. Billie Cox Satoru Fujihara David Cowan Donald Livingston Brian Koenig William Cunningham Greg Garfin Robert Dickerman George Maddox Steven Kunen Daniel Davis Robert Goodmundson Robert Dorsey William Mathias, Jr. Jack Lagoni John Declerk George Gregory G. Emigh William McClellan Roger Laine John Doris Terry Gustafson Carl Fries, Jr. David Mickle Paul Leskinen Mark Erickson Patricia Lach Richard Geer Charles Miles Walter Lienhard Christian Farnsworth Margo Longo James Gless David Peabody Arthur McIntyre Robert Ferguson Emanuel Nieves Leopold Heindl Don Pearson William McMullan Anne Fischer John Petersen John Heyn James Riley Robert Moore Suzanne Fouty Kevin Quick James Hillebrand Robert Rohrbacker Margaret Mowrey Michael Grubensky Lawrence Seeger Paul Howell Jay Savera Romolo Oropeza Andrea Handler -Ruiz Mary Trevina Robert Jackson Steve Simon Norman Pitcher John Heaphy John Yarnold Zamir Kidwal David Smith Blaise Poole J. Hennessy Raul Zevallos John Kinnison Walter Smith James Puckett, Jr. Nancy Hess William Loring Walter Stein William Reay Nancy Johnson Raymond Ludden Robert Streitz R. Sandberg Steven Kimsey Fred Michel, Jr. Jack Tleel Marc Selover Kristen Law Creighton Ryno A. Wells Margaret Severson Jody Maliga Roland Schwartz Clyde Wilson Verl Smith William Malvey William Van Horn Charles Soule Dale Mathews Klaus Voelger David South Robert Matthiessen Robert Wager Wade Speer Daniel Maus Robert Webb Wilbur Sweet William McArthur page 16 The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 John From My Anthony's Early Days by Autobiography John Williams Anthony Wherein is recalled a little of what it was like growing up in New England Published and the West a generation ago, lightly leavened by charismatic characterizations of a panoply of pertinent John Anthony (BS '46, MS '51), UA progenitors, relevent relatives, fortuitous forebears, Geosciences professor from 1951 to 1986, consanguineous collaterals and antiquated antecedents, hammered out his autobiography as a lark abetted by assorted additional atrophied ancestors. during his retirement. Following John's death in 1992, his son Ryan edited the text, compiling old photographs, artwork, and even song lyrics. He and John's wife Elizabeth have privately published 300 copies for distribution. During his 35 years at the UA, John John Williams Anthony Anthony played a significant role in the (November 25, 1920 - November 9, 1992) evolution of a small, mining- focused geology circa 1938 department into alarge, diversified geosciences program. John's scientific contributions included Mineralogy of Arizona earlier Western sojourns had been either (1977), senior authorship of the Handbook of Mineralogy (vol. 1, 1990), and a series of farther north and in the mountains of Mohave papers describing new mineral species and County or in milder Bay Area California, and their crystal structures. He was also the both at a forgettingly -early age. As one who founding editor of the Arizona Geological carefully plans ahead, I foresightedly had on Society Digest. John moved to Tucson to enroll my three -piece shaggy wool suit, a lined at the UA in 1944 to finish a degree raincoat /overcoat over my arm, and a brown interrupted by World War II. Upon the felt fedora on my head, and I was weighted completion of his BS, he worked for the down with two heavy leather suitcases Arizona Bureau of Mines. John earned his MS containing my worldly goods- except for ice in 1951 and joined the faculty at the UA, skates and skis. And, fresh from a couple of where he assumed responsibility for teaching months of in- hospital conditioning, I probably John Anthony at the UA Field Camp near Young, weighed in at around 135 pounds. Thoughts introductory mineralogy and ore microscopy Ariz., May or June 1972. courses formerly taught by his own advisor, of frying pan and fire flashed briefly. No Max Short. welcoming mat was out, so I struggled across John's teaching responsibilites expanded Getting off the train in Tucson, Ariz. was a,couple of streets to a small hotel, where to include topographic surveying and field somewhat less pleasant than getting experienced my first evaporative cooler - mapping during the era before Field Camp on in Boston. The Southern Pacific cooled night. That hotel (whose name I now was established. In 1965, John completed his pulled into the Old Pueblo around 6:00 p.m. forget) is still there, merely smaller and dingier. PhD from Harvard. The remainder of his on July 9 (I think it was), 1944, a day that I There is only one University of Arizona in teaching career at the UA centered on courses later learned had hit 106 degrees -locally, one Arizona, and it is situated in Tucson, at that inmineralogy and crystalstructure might say that the ice had finally broken up time a community of less than 35,000 sun - determination, with occasional stints as Field in the Santa Cruz River.I should have been kissed souls, so the next day, armed with Camp director and instructor. ready for it, because there had been no air - directions, I set out under an underpass thence John's service to the department also conditioning on the train, pulled in those days eastward on East Sixth Street to find it. After a included two years as its chairman. His by a steam locomotive, and the trip from lengthy walk in the morning heat (sans coat stewardship of the UA Mineral Museum for Tucumcari, NM (where they took off or put now!), I came to a large, appropriate -looking

more than a quarter of a century helped on the liquor car, I can't ever remember structure, swarming with youth, which I preserve and expand one of the best university which) was sweltering. But that penultimate entered, eager to enroll. I discovered, to my mineral collections during a time when step out the Pullman door onto the metal embarrassment, that this was Tucson High support for museums was almost nonexistent. ladder above the glaring white cement School- having an enormous enrollment in For a copy of John Anthony's From Myplatform took me directly into the fireball of those days, it being the only high school in Early Days, contact: the last afternoon sun. For a moment I town, save for therelativelysmall Ryan Anthony sublimininally debated an about -face and Amphitheater -not the U of A! To this day, I 4462 E. 7th St. continuing on to a more suitably civilized can't drive by THS without recalling that near Tucson, AZ 85711 California climate. One should have been miss. The story goes over well in Tucson. hamsterranch @yahoo.com inured to Arizona's climactic surprises, but my -exerpted from From My Early Days, pp. 151 -152

The University of Arizona /Geosciences Newsletter Spring 1999 page 17 RECENT PUBLICATIONS Kudos to... VICTOR BAKER has been selected as an foraminifera to reptiles, reefs to evaporites, and Honorary Fellow of the Judith Totman Parrish how they are used to interpret paleoclimate. European Union of The approach is methodological, not Geosciences. historical,partlybecausehistorical Interpreting Pre- J uaternarvy paleoclimatology has been covered in other books and long papers. My principal Climate from the Geologic Record motivation for writing the book was to provide a way to systematically access the vast literature on methods of studying pre - Quaternarypaleoclimatology. As a MARK BARTON has been compendium, the book does not treat each selected the International topic in great depth. However, the Exchange Lecturer for the bibliography is copious, so the reader can Society of Economic easily gain access to more detail in the Geologists for 1999. As a literature by using the references provided as result, he will travel to a starting point, Why the pre -Quaternary? The Australia, New Zealand Quaternary Period (roughly the last 2 million and eastern Asia during years) has been nicely addressed in book form the first half of 2000. by other workers. The methods used to study climates in the Quaternary and pre - Quaternary records overlap, but there are also BILL DICKINSON is the major differences. In addition, there are unique recipient of the Twenhofel considerations for the study of pre -Quaternary Medal from the Society for climates, such as continental drift, higher sea Sedimentary Geology Interpreting Pre- Quaternary Climate from levels, highly variable rates of volcanism, and (SEPM), theirmost the Geologic Record is a compendium ofvery different vegetation patterns, which all prestigious award. paleoclimatic indicators from the pre - forced the climate system in ways that have Quaternary geologic record, ranging from not been duplicated in the last 2 million years.

Volume of Collected YbMlIM1 N011rvyAya<' BOB DOWNS was elected to the International Center Papers Dedicated to for Diffraction Data which ADVANCES IN controls and manages the Ev Lindsay VERTEBRATE powder diffraction files PALEONTOLOGY AND every X -ray lab uses to . Lawrence J. Flynn (MS '77, PhD '81) of GEOCHRONOLOGY identify unknown Harvard, Louis L. Jacobs (MS '73, PhD '77) of materials.Worldwide Priitcn Southern Methodist Univ., and Yukimitsu Yukimìtsu Tami

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