Magma ocean Influence on early atmosphere composition and mass

Marc Hirschmann, University of Minnesota.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Seismic Tremors and Wagging Magma: Key Precursors of Explosive Volcanism?

Marc Jellinek, University of British Columbia.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Searching for the earliest signs of cellular life on Earth

Martin Brasier, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Clumped-isotope geochemistry of carbonates: A new tool to study geological processes from palaeoclimatology to low-grade metamorphism

Stefano Bernasconi.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

(U-Th)/He dating of secondary Fe- and Mn-oxides in bedrock

Peter Reiners, University of Arizona.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

In the footsteps of Professor Lidenbrock: a geochemical journey to the centre of the Earth

Sedgwick Club special talk

Rob Ellam, SUERC, Min Soc Distinuished Lecturer.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Walking on broken glass: investigating magmatic processes in explosive and effusive rhyolitic eruptions

Hugh Tuffen, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Decoding the fossil record of the earliest animals and their embryology

Professor Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Banded Iron Formation and Ancient Life

Professor Kurt Konhauser, University of Alberta.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Stefano Bernasconi,, ETH Zurich.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

The source of siderophile elements in the silicate Earth – clues from the Archean rock record

Matthias Willbold, University of Bristol.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

The origin of a phylum: soft-bodied fossils and early mollusc evolution

Martin Smith, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Stable vanadium isotope fractionation at high temperatures: a proxy for oxygen fugacity?

Julie Prytulak, Imperial College.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model

Fortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Orogenesis - CO2 source or sink? Insight from quantification of fossil organic carbon weathering rates in Taiwan

Robert Hilton, Department of Geography, University of Durham.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Life and times in the Cambrian and its stratigraphic constraints on Himalayan geology, tectonics, and uplift history

Prof. Nigel Hughes, University of California, Riverside.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Magma chamber processes in ferrobasaltic layered intrusions

Oliver Namur.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Geological Histories of Earth and Mars

Vic Baker, University of Arizona.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

The eve of biomineralisation

Rachel Wood, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

SCALING LAWS FOR AGGRADATION AND PROGRADATION OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD

Peter Sadler, University of California at Riverside.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Intrusive LIPs: Petrological Interpretation of Deep Crustal Cumulate Bodies beneath Oceanic Hotspot Provinces

Mark Richards, Univeristy of California, Berkeley.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

A window on deep geological time: exceptional fossils studied using new methods

Roy Wogelius, University of Manchester.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Ocean turbulence, fronts, and the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom

Dr. John R. Taylor (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

The orbital pacing of Palaeogene hyperthermals - can we believe model results?

Dan Lunt, University of Bristol.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

NOTE TIME! 1-2pm! Cryptic Neoproterozoic mountain building events around the margin of Rodinia

Rob Strachan, University of Portsmouth.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Under the geological rug: The fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration

Jerome Neufeld, BPI, Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Evolution and climate in the Cenozoic oceans

Paul Pearson, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Bubbles and Bangs: Volatile Controls on Magma Fragmentation

Kathy Cashman, University of Oregon.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

The capture of the Tsangpo by the Brahmuputra River and rapid exhumation of the Namche Barwa eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya: testing the erosion-tectonic feedback hypothesis by new provenance methods using rutile and zircon U-Pb in situ dating, and im

Randy Parrish, NIGL and University of Leicester.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Silicate liquid immiscibility in tholeiitic basalt

Bernard Charlier, MIT.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Tracing tephra horizons in the Greenland ice-cores and the potential for integrating disparate proxy records in the North Atlantic region

Siwan Davies, University of Swansea.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Unravelling the complexity of the geometry and nucleation phase of Apennininc extensional systems: the case of the 2009 MW 6.1 L’Aquila normal fault system (Central Italy).

Lauro Chiaraluce, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Zooming into the subduction plate interface: constraints from petrology, geodynamics and modelling

Philippe Agard, University Paris VI.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Strontium in the oceans: Where does it come from and where does it go?

Chris Pearce, Open University.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Virtual Fossils and the Herefordshire Lagerstatte

Mark Sutton, Imperial College.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Relating atmospheric CO2 levels to biogeochemical processes

Phil Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Extreme change in sulfide concentrations near the Bosporus Inlet (Black Sea) during the Little Ice Age tracked using molybdenum isotopes

Gail Arnold, MPI Bremen.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Simulation of seismic wave propagation through geometrically complex basins - the Dead Sea basin

Michael Tserarsky, Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

In situ mineral carbonation (and hydration) in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (and geodynamics)

Peter Kelemen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Volcanic-Magmatic Interplays on Mid-Ocean Ridge Construction and Petrogenesis

Ken Rubin, University of Hawaii.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Ocean Ridge Perspectives on Mantle Heterogeneity

Charlie Langmuir, Harvard.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

The microbial biogeochemistry of the sediment/water interface - players, processes, and rates

Dr Volker Bruchert, Stockholm University.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on S oxidation processes in modern and ancient ecosystems

Aubrey Zerkle, University of Newcastle.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction

Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Large scale tectonic framework of SE Asia and the structure and deformation of the lithosphere beneath SE Tibet

Rob van der Hilst, MIT.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Comparative palaeoecology of mass extinction events

Richard Twitchett, University of Plymouth.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Climate change and volcanism: The Siberian Traps and Yellowstone volcanic provinces

Marc Reichow, University of Leicester.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Reactive melt migration and the evolution of mid-ocean ridge basalt

C. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Middle Miocene Expansion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Triggered by pCO2 decline

Gavin Foster, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Pleistocene glacial cycles: interactions amongst ice, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2.

Peter Huybers, Harvard.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Rock records: when two are better than one

Andrew B. Smith, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Deforming the Earth: Runny Solids in the Deep Mantle

David Dobson, University College London.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Melting above the (nominally) anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs

Richard Katz, University of Oxford.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

The motion and rheology of the Indian plate, and their effects upon Tibetan tectonics

Alex Copley, University of Cambridge.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Tracking the solidification of a basaltic crystal mush

Madeleine Humphreys, University of Cambridge.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Excursions and paleointensity: Integration of magnetic and oxygen isotope stratigraphies

Jim Channell, University of Florida.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Dust Provenance in Polar Regions

Aloys Bory, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Methane plumes from the seafloor of West Spitsbergen: do they come from dissociation of methane hydrate caused by global warming?

Graham Westbrook, University of Birmingham.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Millennial scale variability in the oxygen minimum zone off Baja California inferred by elemental composition over the past 70 kyr

Kazuyo Tachikawa, CEREGE.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Challenging the assumptions of functional analysis of fossils: diet, feeding and tooth wear analysis.

Mark Purnell, University of Leicester.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

4.5 Gyr of maturation of the Upper Continental Crust? Evidence from stable isotope ratios.

Ed Tipper, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Bedrock Rivers

Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cradle of life or barren wasteland? Geochemical constraints on early martian water

Nick Tosca, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Fractionation effects in turbidity currents

Bill McCaffrey, University of Leeds.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

High 3He/4He in proto-Iceland plume basalts: implications for the deep Earth

Fin Stuart, SUERC, East Kilbride.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

The cycle of petrogenic organic carbon during orogeny: from metamorphism to erosion

Olivier Beyssac, CNRS, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris, France.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

The oxygen side of sulphate: Sulphur and oxygen isotope effects related to microbial sulphur cycling

Benjamin Brunner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 28359 Bremen, Germany.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Morphologic and Geochemical Evolution of the Submarine Kermadec – Tonga Arc

Ian Wright, National Oceanography Centre Southampton.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Up the down escalator: Formation and exhumation of (ultra) high pressure rocks

Clare Warren, Open University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimal excitation of Atlantic ocean variability and implications for predictability

Laure Zanna, University of Oxford.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Structure and Development of Oceanic Core Complexes

Roger C. Searle, Durham University.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Constraints on mantle geochemistry and planetary differentiation derived from Fe isotopes

Helen Williams, University of Oxford.

Tilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Accretion of the Earth and formation of the core

Bernie Wood, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Orbital forcing of western Antarctic Peninsula Holocene climate

Amelia Shevenell.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Implications of Quaternary sea-level variability for the debate on Messinian Mediterranean lower evaporite cycles

Eelco Rohling.

Harker 2 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

The solidification of gabbros

Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:30-17:30

Marginal stability of explosive volcanic columns

Guillaume Carrazo.

Harker 2 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Thursday 09 April 2009, 11:30-12:30

Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle

Catherine Jeandel, LEGOS, Toulouse.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Characterising geomorphic responses to tectonic perturbation: Insights and implications.

Alex Whittaker, Imperial College London.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Mineral magnetism and palaeoclimate

Ted Evans, University of Alberta.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Explosive volcanism: a materials catastrophe

Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer

Don Dingwell, University of Munich.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Deglacial Meridional Overturning changes inferred from sedimentary 231Pa/230Th records from the North Atlantic

Jeanne Gherardi Scao, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Heavy Stable Isotopes in Marine Geochemistry - Insights from Cadmium

Mark Rehkamper, Imperial College London.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Catastrophic megafloods in the English Channel explain how Britain became an island

Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Molten Earth: Magma in the Deep Mantle

Lars Stixrude, University College London.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Quantifying Fault Damage Zone Permeability in Crystalline Rocks

Dan Faulkner (University of Liverpool).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:30-17:30

Impact of the Boundary Exchange on the Element Cycle

Catherine Jeandel (LEGOS, Toulouse, France).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Modern Himalayan erosion: a geochemical approach of river transport

Christian France-Lanord (CRPG, Nancy, France).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Going with the flow: modelling the distribution and life history of Antarctic krill

Sally Thorpe (British Antarctic Survey) - Challenger Talk.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Solving the high level nuclear waste problem

Lou Vance (ANSTO, Australia).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Driving mechanisms for globally correlatable Phanerozoic eustatic sequences?

Mike Simmons (Netflex Petroleum, Oxford).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Monogenetic Volcanism: A Window into Mantle Heterogeneity and Magmatic Processes

Ninad Bondre (Nature Geoscience, London).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

U-Th-Pb isotopes in continental mantle roots: Tracing lithospheric metasomatism, melting and anthropogenic contamination

Nadine Wittig, Durham University.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Title to be confirmed

Jeanne Gherardi Scao.

Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Sunday 10 February 2008, 16:30-17:30