NOLS Winter Speaker Series

Description

Olympic National Park's Perspectives Winter Speaker Series is hosted by the North Olympic Library System (NOLS) via Zoom for the 2022 season. The free talks will be offered at 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month from January through April. Registration, available at www.nols.org, is required to attend the Zoom meeting. Participation at each program is limited to the first 100 registered attendees. Programs will be simultaneously streamed via the NOLS Facebook page for additional participants. 

This series is sponsored by Olympic National Park, the Friends of Olympic National Park, and the North Olympic Library System.
 

February 8

Revisiting Stratigraphy of the Eocene to Miocene Sedimentary Rocks on the Olympic Peninsula

Erin Donaghy, PhD Student, Purdue University

This research aims to better understand sedimentary basin formation following accretion of a large oceanic plateau (Siletzia) to the Pacific Northwest approximately 50 million years ago. We document the sedimentary basin response to this collision by characterizing changing depositional environments and sediment routing pathways in basin deposits to understand how tectonic plate configurations changed during establishment of the modern Cascadia magmatic arc.

For more information about Olympic National Park, visit www.nps.gov/olym. The Port Angeles Main Library is located at 2210 South Peabody Street in Port Angeles. For more information about this and other upcoming events at your library, visit www.nols.org or email Discover@nols.org.