<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Post 1:</span></div><div><span style="line-height:17.12px"><div><div><div><div><div>subject line: CEES Seminar</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Laura Webb, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Vermont, Department of Geography and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.5in">Geosciences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New insights on polyphase deformation in the New England Appalachians </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></i></b></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Reverse faults along the western front of the Berkshire and Green Mountains place very old basement rocks over younger Cambrian–Ordovician rocks, cutting across earlier structures</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">formed during the Taconic Orogeny. Microstructures and Argon–argon (<span style="vertical-align:super">40</span>Ar/<span style="vertical-align:super">39</span>Ar) dating show that these faults were reactivated multiple times beginning about 420 million years ago and continued for at least 70 million years.  <span style="vertical-align:super">40</span>Ar/<span style="vertical-align:super">39</span>Ar<span style="vertical-align:super"> </span>dating that was once thought to indicate slow cooling following the Taconic Orogeny, may in fact date the reactivation of these faults.  This talk will explore these new findings and how they relate to recent and ongoing results from seismic imaging of the lithospheric and mantle structure in the northern New England Appalachians.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Friday March 27</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">  3:30</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">pm. </b></p><div><div><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception prior to the talk at 3:00</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>You can add the full seminar schedule to your <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18xMDhkNjVlMjY1ZGVmNjI5MTU3NDJhNzU0ZmQyMTE4ZjBhNmRhYmJjNDg2MDE0MGU3NmUwMTU0YzNiOGFmZTQwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a><br></div></div><div><div><div>You can also get weekly updates by following our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SUNYPlattsburghCEES" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https:/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