Monthly Archives: March 2025

April 9th – GSW meeting at Cosmos Club

Theme of the event: Rock Deformation and Tectonics

RYAN McALEER, USGS – Microtextures and Microchemistry in Retrograde Shear Zones: Implications for Geochronology, Deformation Mechanisms, and Rock Strength

WENLU ZHU, University of Maryland, College Park – Effect of Partial Melt on Seismic Wave Velocity of Mantle Peridotite

EMILY MARTIN, National Air and Space Museum – Dione’s Tectonic History and Evidence for a Global Subsurface Ocean

***THIS IS AN IN-PERSON MEETING ONLY***

Refreshments at 7:30 p.m., formal program at 8:00 p.m.

John Wesley Powell Auditorium, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

Draft minutes from March 5th meeting (1608th GSW)

The draft minutes of our last meeting, on 5 March 2025, are attached for members to evaluate. If you have any additions or corrections please email them to our meeting secretary, Jessie Bersson, at BerssonJ[at]si.edu.