UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences Emeritus Professor Wolf Elston will present a lecture Friday, Sept. 28 about the "Giant Volcanoes of Southwestern New Mexico." The talk will be held in the Kudo Lecture Room (rm. 122) in Northrop Hall at 2 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the department museum.
Elston has spent his career specializing in volcanology and the many related areas including economic geology, mid-Tertiary extensional tectonics and ignimbrite flare-up of southwestern North America, ash-flow tuff cauldrons, relationship of volcanic centers to economic mineralization. His research also includes regional geology of southwestern New Mexico.
For more information call the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at, 277-4204.
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