120 History of Geology Division and History of the Earth Sciences Society Anniversary Celebration

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  HISTORY OF GEOLOGY DIVISION STUDENT AWARD PAPER: CORE DRILLING AT BIKINI AND ENIWETOK ATOLLS, 1947-1952
  Alistair Sponsel, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  110217 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  THE HISTORY OF THE WISSAHICKON
  Sally Newcomb, retired, Silver Spring, MD
  109359 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  100 YEARS OF WISSAHICKON — WHAT'S IN A NAME?
  William S. Schenck, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
  111549 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  THE MARTIC LINE CONTROVERSY - HOW IT STARTED
  William A. Crawford, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA and Dorothy Wyckoff, (deceased), N/A, N/A
  108404 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  THE WISSAHICKON CONTROVERSY: FLORENCE BASCOM'S EDUCATIONAL TRIUMPH
  Renee Clary, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS and James H. Wandersee, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  114300 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  THE WISSAHICKON SCHIST AND RELATED ROCKS: STUDIES OF METAMORPHISM IN SE PENNSYLVANIA
  Maria Luisa Crawford, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
  110302 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  STRUCTURAL AND TEMPORAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WISSAHICKON FORMATION: THE FIRST 100 YEARS
  Gale C. Blackmer, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Middletown, PA
  111222 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  THE ROLE OF TRANSCURRENT SHEAR ZONES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WISSAHICKON FORMATION
  Mary Louise Hill, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
  113111 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  GEOLOGIC INFLUENCES ON BENEDICT ARNOLD'S MARCH TO QUEBEC, 1775
  Bruce F. Rueger, Colby College, Waterville, ME
  114748 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  WASHINGTON'S PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM BROOKLYN HEIGHTS IN AUGUST 1776
  J. David Rogers, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO and Conor Watkins, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO
  113407 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD: GEOLOGY'S IMPACT UPON MILITARY HISTORY
  Roger J. Cuffey, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Jon D. Inners, Middletown, PA and Gary M. Fleeger, Middletown, PA and Jennifer A. Lane, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
  107585 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  MILITARY GEOLOGY AND THE APACHE WARS, SOUTH WEST UNITED STATES
  Peter Doyle, University College London, London, N/A
  112385 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  CLARENCE EDWARD DUTTON: GEOLOGIST, MAJOR OF ORDNANCE, MAN OF LETTERS
  William R. Halliday, National Speleological Society, Nashville, TN
  113671 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  GROVE KARL GILBERT'S PHOTOGRAPHS AS EVIDENCE IN GEOLOGY: DOCUMENTING THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
  Michele L. Aldrich, California Academy of Sciences, Hatfield, MA and Alan E. Leviton, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA and Karren Elsbernd, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  110731 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  STATEMENT ON EVOLUTION-SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION- 1925
  Ellis L. Yochelson, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
  111248 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  WHERE IS THAT COLLECTION?
  J. Thomas Dutro, Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
  113165 (Technical Sessions)