CSU Earth and Space Sciences Students Present Research

April 17, 2014

A group of CSU Earth and Space Sciences faculty and undergraduate and graduate students recently presented the results of their research projects at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in Blacksburg, Va.

The Geological Society of America is one of the largest professional geology societies in the world, and the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section attracts several hundred researchers each year. CSU had nine students and two faculty at the meeting, with undergraduate presentations by:

• Jeannie Patrick: "Effective Use of a Low-cost Spiral Panning Machine for Zircon Separation"


• Salvador Espinosa, Rylleigh Harstad and Ridge Smenner: "Mapping and Structural Analysis across Emuckfaw Group - Wedowee Group Contacts in the Eastern Blue Ridge of Alabama"


• Salvador Espinosa : "Refining the Age, Petrology and Tectonic Setting of Paleozoic Plutons in the Eastern Blue Ridge of Alabama"

... and graduate student presentations by:

• Daniel Black : "Long-lived Upper Cretaceous Paleodrainage System in the U.S. Southwestern Georgia - Southeastern Alabama Region"


• Chris Stanford: "Macro-Charcoal Analysis of Sediment Cores to Determine Fire Use Among Historic and Prehistoric Cultures, Chattahoochee River Valley, Eastern Alabama"

Links to all the presentations can be found at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/.