UVSC professor to talk to geological society

OREM — Bill Dinklage, assistant professor of earth science at Utah Valley State College, will make a presentation at the Geological Society of America Conference at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., on May 23-25.

Dinklage's presentation will examine the Sevier mountain-building event that occurred 100 million years ago and affected the western half of North America. Dinklage discovered millimeter-sized crystals of biotite in the Pequop Mountains of Nevada, which were evidence of two deformation events that were part of the mountain-building events of North America.Dinklage has been at UVSC since fall 2002.