Geoscience Seminar: Jochen Mezger
February 23, 2021
Jochen Mezger is the field camp director at UAF’s Department of Geosciences. He is a structural and metamorphic geologist by training and conviction, and has spent many summers in the southwestern Yukon Territory, the Highlands of Sri Lanka and his favorite mountain range, the Pyrenees. He loves Alaska and his geology field camp, but secretly wishes that the rocks he takes his students to map would be “more strongly deformed.” He was very excited to one day find deformed belemnite rostra during a field camp in the Talkeetna Mountains that reminded him of the ductile deformation enjoyed by his beloved schists and mylonites. He came to realize that microtectonics and paleontology are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Jochen will present "Bent out of shape by the mountain: how deformed fossils enhance our understanding of tectonic activity” on Friday, Feb 26, at 11:45 a.m. via Zoom.
Email Jochen Mezger at jemezger@alaska.edu for the Zoom link. This event is part of the Geoscience Seminar series.