<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="cid:ii_15e76b18c25d8cc2" alt="Inline image 1" width="288" height="76" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14.72px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14.72px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please support our community in Earth and environmental sciences by attending our weekly events. This week's speaker for our <span class="gmail-il">Enviro</span>-<span class="gmail-il">lunch</span> brown bag seminar series will be:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14.72px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:"Times New Roman"">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Justin

Van De Velde, Ph.D.<span></span></span></b></p>

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Facility<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mountains, Lakes, and

Limestones: Understanding the influence of climate and topography in Earth’s

ancient past<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img src="cid:ii_15e76b261cf91451" alt="Inline image 2" width="292" height="219" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interpreting paleoenvironmental

proxy records in geologic deep-time requires accounting not only for major

climate changes but also modification of topography through tectonic processes.

Stable isotope records from authigenic lake carbonates serve as powerful

integrators of regional environmental conditions. In central Utah, Paleo-lake

Flagstaff occupied the foreland basin fronting the now-destroyed Sevier

Highlands during the early Eocene (~50 Myr ago), while middle Miocene (13-5 Myr

ago) lakes in the Ouarzazate Basin of Morocco received inputs from the High

Atlas. I show stable isotope records from these two areas that constrain their

topographic histories.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">When:

Sept. 14th, Thursday, 12pm – 1pm<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Where:

SE2-302 <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Coffee

will be provided and please bring your own mugs. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We

look forward to seeing you,<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizers for 2017-18: Nate Bogie and

Lixia Jin<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Faculty

coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nate & Lixia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">

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