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Rec Mtg# Year Authors Institution Talk title
1 1030 1978 Francis J. Flanagan USGS W. F. Hillenbrand, the father of standards in geology
2 1030 1978 John W. Morgan USGS What on earth (!?) made the Ries Crater
3 1030 1978 Robert I. Tilling USGS Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii: past activities and possible future behavior
4 1031 1978 Robert M. Hazen Geophysical Laboratory Popularization and poetry of geology in 19th-century America
5 1031 1978 A. W. England USGS Motor toboggan traverse of the Dufek intrusion, Antarctica
6 1031 1978 Stephan Brush University of Maryland A geologist among astronomers: T. C. Chamberlain’s role in the overthrow of the nebular hypothesis
7 1032 1978 Malcolm Ross USGS Geology, asbestos, and health
8 1032 1978 William F. Cannon USGS Small-scale bottom features associated with manganese nodules in the northeast equatorial Pacific
9 1032 1978 Anthony A. Fleming;
  James V. O'Connor		 Beloit College DC Piedmont: new evidence from outcrops and construction sites in NW
10 1033 1978 Byron D. Stone USGS Recumbent folds, thrust faults, and cleavage at Skunk Hill, southeast Massachusetts: gravity glide or ice-shove?
11 1033 1978 Michael P. Foose USGS A structural and stratigraphic interpretation for the Northwest Adirondacks
12 1033 1978 Bruce R. Lipin;
  Thomas P. Thayer		 USGS A geologic analysis of world chromite production to the year 2000
13 1034 1978 Robert L. Wesson USGS Seismicity and Quaternary geology, Garm region, Tadzhikistan, USSR
14 1034 1978 Carl J. Bowser University of Wisconsin Manganese and copper geochemistry in equatorial Pacific sediments: relation to nodule-forming processes
15 1034 1978 Kenneth M. Towe National Museum of Natural History Photosynthesis and Precambrian oxygen: the cart before the horse?
16 1035 1978 John E. Repetski USGS Cambrian chordates: A fish story
17 1035 1978 Milan J. Pavich USGS The stripping of the piedmont: A look at the history of saprolite
18 1035 1978 James A. Whitney University of Georgia Crustal evolution of the southern piedmont province during the late Precambrian and early Paleozoic
19 1036 1978 Gregory S. Gohn USGS Geologic investigations in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
20 1036 1978 Thomas A. Ryer USGS, Denver Stratigraphy, environments of deposition, and origin of coal in the upper Cretaceous Ferron sandstone of central Utah (Best Paper 1978)
21 1036 1978 James E. Case USGS, Menlo Park Tectonic evolution of the Caribbean region
22 1037 1978 Odette B. James;
  Oliver A. Schaefer		 USGS Potassium-argon dating: a new laser technique
23 1037 1978 Thomas W. Henry;
  Kenneth J. Englund		 USGS The Pennsylvanian system stratotype -- a refugee in the swamps of Carboniferous stratigraphy
24 1037 1978 Arthur James Boucot;
  Douglas Rumble III		 Oregon State University Devonian brachiopods from the sillimanite zone, Mount Moosilauke, New Hampshire (2nd Best Paper 1978)
25 1038 1978 John F. Slack USGS Chronology of alteration, mineralization, and caldera evolution in the Lake City area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado
26 1038 1978 Paul P. Hearn;
  Frederic R. Siegel		 USGS Sediments of the southern Chilean shelf: a geochemical overview
27 1038 1978 Jacob Freedman Franklin and Marshall College Trace element geochemistry and health
28 1039 1978 Robert J. Bodnar USGS Fluid inclusion study of the porphyry copper prospect at Red Mountain, Arizona
29 1039 1978 Gerhard William Leo USGS Andesite-rhyolite volcanism in western Sumatra, Indonesia
30 1039 1978 Isidore Zietz USGS Exploration of the continental crust using aeromagnetic data
31 1040 1978 David Elliott Johns Hopkins University The breeding of thrust faults
32 1040 1978 Zalman Samuel Altschuler;
  Christina C. Silber;
  Meyer Rubin;
  Jack H. Medlin		 USGS The Everglades of Florida as a coal-forming basin
33 1040 1978 Edward C. T. Chao USGS Current geological activities in the People’s Republic of China.
34 1041 1978 Charles R. Warren USGS Glacial lake Housatonic and related ice fronts
35 1041 1978 John B. Brady Geophysical Laboratory Metasomatism or why some atoms won't sit still for metamorphism
36 1041 1978 William P. Crowley Maryland Geological Survey The Appalachian Piedmont: a cross-section near Baltimore
37 1042 1978 Jacob E. Gair;
  John F. Slack		 USGS Platetectonic setting of stratabound massive sulfide deposits of the US Appalachians
38 1042 1978 Roy S. Clarke Jr. National Museum of Natural History Structure development in iron meteorites viewed through the ternary Fe-Ni-P system
39 1042 1978 David H. Root;
  Emil D. Attanasi		 USGS World oil discovery rates: outlook for production
40 1043 1978 John Thomas Dutro Jr. USGS Lead-zinc prospects in the Brooks Range, Alaska --- An exercise in paleontologic serendipity. (Presidential Address)
John Thomas Dutro Jr. was President in 1978
Daniel E. Appleman was 1st VP in 1978
Douglas W. Rankin was 2nd VP in 1978
Peter T. Lyttle was Treasurer in 1978
Bruce R. Lipin was Meeting Secy in 1978
David R. Wones was Council Secy in 1978
Norman L. Hatch was on the Council in 1978
John Hower was on the Council in 1978
Douglas Rumble III was on the Council in 1978
Motoaki Sato was on the Council in 1978
Kenneth M. Towe was on the Council in 1978
Cristina Zen was on the Council in 1978
William Charles Prinz was Chair of the Program Committee in 1978
Eugene Corley Robertson was Chair of the Awards Committee in 1978
Mary E. Mrose was Chair of the Membership Committee in 1978
David Benjamin Stewart was Chair of the Nominating Committee in 1978
Raymond Charles Douglas was Chair of the Sleeping Bear Committee in 1978
Douglas Merrill Kinney was Chair of the Finance Committee in 1978
Douglas Merrill Kinney was Chair of the Auditing Committee in 1978
Peter B. Stifel was Chair of the Public srvc Committee in 1978
Thomas A. Ryer won the Best Paper Award in 1978
Douglas Rumble III won the 2nd best paper Award in 1978
Frank C. Whitmore Jr. won the Great Dane Award in 1978
Ellis Leon Yochelson won the Sleeping Bear Award in 1978
E-an Zen was the Grand Inquisitor of 1978