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AEG Nisqually Chapter September 2019 Meeting with Dr. Peter Davis

Pizza and salad buffet is included in this month's meeting fee. The price is the same for members and non-members ($25) and students are $5. Drinks are on your own.

The social starts at 6pm, and the presentation at 7pm.

Dr. Peter Davis is currently an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma Washington, a small picturesque liberal-arts University in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated in the spring of 2008 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a Ph.D in Geology and Geophysics under the direction of Dr Donna L. Whitney on lawsonite eclogite and blueschist exposures in west-central Turkey. His masters, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2003, was carried out under the direction of Dr Michael L. Williams on mesoproterozoic mid-crustal rocks in northern New Mexico. His undergraduate is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he worked as closely as an undergraduate can to Dr Gordon Medaris on the Precambrian evolution of the Great Lakes region. Peter is also interested in design, wood, metal and stone work, as well as politics and music. The music component ranges from jazz through new wave into noise rock.

TITLE OF TALK:

Recent insights into the tectonic assembly of western Washington State, with new insights into igneous and metamorphic rocks near Cle Elum, Washington State

Web link:
https://community.plu.edu/~davispb/