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Andy Ten Brink, a Ph.D. candidate who worked on a seismic hazard team in Central Panama for the United State Geological Survey, will speak on “Active Tectonism Since 8 Million Years in the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range Transition Zone”noon Friday in Van Wickle Hall room 108.
Lunch will be provided free of charge to students and for $3 to faculty and staff. The event is part of the Geology Spring Seminar Series sponsored by the geology and environmental geosciences department.
For his master’s degree, Ten Brink compiled a complete geological hazard assessment prior to the U.S. return of the canal system to the Panamanian government. His Ph.D. work is based in the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone, investigating the exact timing and style of deformation of Sierran uplift and movement in relation to the regional plate tectonics acting on the region.
During the talk, Ten Brink will give a systematic look at a single basin in the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone using structure, sedimentology, geophysics, and tectonics to provide a glimpse of the region’s tectonic history. The talk will show potential geology students exactly how components of their class work are applied in a field geology setting and how the components can be combined to create a complete geological investigation.
Ten Brink has taught at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at University of Nevada, Reno.
Previous Geology Seminar talks:
Guy Hovis, John H. Markle Professor of Geology, Feb. 6: “A European Sabbatical Travelogue — and Why I Destroy Minerals”