2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Session No. 75 Monday, 29 October 2007
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 709/711

T87. A Retrospective and Prospective Look at Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry I: A Session in Honor of Gordon E. Brown, Jr.

Michael F. Hochella and Jerry Gibbs, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
75-18:00 AM CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE PROPERTIES OF ELECTRON DENSITY AND BOND CHARACTER FOR M-O BONDED INTERACTIONS FOR FIRST AND SECOND ROW M ATOMS IN MINERALS: GIBBS, G.V., Dept. of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, gvgibbs@vt.edu
75-28:15 AM HIGH-PRESSURE CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY AND INSIGHTS IN TO THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICAL BOND: ANGEL, Ross J.1, ROSS, Nancy2, and ZHAO, Jing2, (1) Department of GeoSciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, rangel@vt.edu, (2) Dept. of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
75-38:30 AM HIGH-PRESSURE MINERAL SCIENCES: FROM ALCHEMY TO THE MODERN ERA: HEMLEY, Russell J., Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N.W, Washington, DC 20015, rhemley@ciw.edu
75-48:45 AM GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION WITH GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE: METAL AND CARBON FLUXES FROM THE CORE?: HAYDEN, Leslie A., Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, haydel@rpi.edu and WATSON, E. Bruce, Earth and Environmetal Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jonsson-Rowland Science Center 1W19, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, watsoe@rpi.edu
75-59:00 AM ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM—PAST RESULTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS: ERNST, W.G. and LIOU, J.G., Stanford Univ, Bldg 320, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, ernst@geo.stanford.edu
75-69:15 AM THERMODYNAMICS FOR A SMALL PLANET (INVITED PAPER): NAVROTSKY, Alexandra, NEAT ORU & Thermochemistry Facility, Univ of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, anavrotsky@ucdavis.edu
75-79:30 AM THE CRITICAL ZONE: EARTH'S WEATHERING ENGINE: BRANTLEY, Susan L., Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis, Penn State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, 2217 EES Building, University Park, PA 16802, brantley@eesi.psu.edu
75-89:45 AM FROM OBSERVATION OF FORM TO MOLECULAR SCALE MECHANISMS: BIOMINERALIZATION RESEARCH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: DOVE, Patricia M.1, STEPHENSON, Allison1, WANG, Dongbo1, HAMM, Laura1, WALLACE, Adam F.1, and DE YOREO, James J.2, (1) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, dove@vt.edu, (2) Department of Chemistry and Materials Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551
 10:00 AM Break
75-910:15 AM SMITHSONIAN ROCK AND ORE COLLECTIONS, 1955-56 AND 2005-06: AQUISITIONS AND LOANS 50 YEARS AGO, TODAY AND 50 YEARS HENCE: SORENSEN, S.S., HALE, L.J., HEARN, B.C. Jr, and COTTRELL, E., Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History MRC-119, Washington, DC 20013-7012, sorensen@si.edu
75-1010:30 AM RALPH W. G. WYCKOFF: HIS INFLUENCE ON MODERN MINERALOGY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: PREWITT, Charles T., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, prewitt@email.arizona.edu and HEMLEY, Russell J., Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N.W, Washington, DC 20015
75-1110:45 AM THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME AT THE BEGINNING: TIME-RESOLVED AND ULTRAFAST GEOCHEMISTRY: WAYCHUNAS, Glenn, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, gawaychunas@lbl.gov
75-1211:00 AM APPLICATION OF NEUTRON SCATTERING TECHNIQUES IN THE MINERAL SCIENCES: ROSS, Nancy L., Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, nross@vt.edu
75-1311:15 AM RADIATION- AND PRESSURE-INDUCED TRANSFORMATIONS IN PYROCHLORE: EWING, Rodney C., Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, rodewing@umich.edu
75-1411:30 AM USING ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION TO UNDERSTAND TEXTURES IN SECTOR-ZONED GARNETS: BOYLE, Alan P., Earth & Ocean Sciences, Univ of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GP, apboyle@liverpool.ac.uk and PRIOR, David J., Earth & Ocean Sciences, Univ of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GP
75-1511:45 AM ADVANCED MINERALOGY RESEARCH: MINERAL CHARACTERIZATION USING QEMSCAN® TECHNIQUES: HOAL, Karin O.1, BOTHA, Pieter W.S.K.2, FORSYTH, Adam2, and BUTCHER, Alan R.2, (1) Advanced Mineralogy Research Center, Colorado School of Mines, 1310 Maple St, Golden, CO 80401, khoal@mines.edu, (2) Intellection Pty Ltd, 2/27 Mayneview St, Milton, Queensland, 4064, Australia

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