Texas from the Cretaceous to Today, 152 Ma of tectonics, volcanoes, sea level change and evolution by: Peter Anderson, Instructor of Geology
November 11, 2026
Location: Los Tios restaurant located at 9527 Westheimer RD, Houston.
Social 5:30 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m., Presentation 7:30- 9:00 p.m.
Cost: $35 Pre-registered members; $40 non-members & ALL walk-ups
Talk Title:
Texas from the Cretaceous to Today, 152 Ma of tectonics, volcanoes, sea level change and evolution
Short summary:
Texas from the Cretaceous to Today, 152 Ma of tectonics, volcanoes, sea level change and evolution. We will explore the large-scale forces moving the state, and the entire NA continent. Then move into a closer look at the Gulf of Mexico as it finished developing and talk about how these large-scale interactions between oceans, and continents create a persistent cycle of sea-level rise and fall documents in the Texas gulf coast and up into the hill country and out i to the west Texas mountains. We will discuss the oddities we still can't explain and talk about the common fossil taxa both extinct and extant found i the region.
Bio:
Peter Anderson
Instructor of Geology
Geology Department Head
Wharton County Junior College
Peter Anderson is the geology Department Head at Wharton County Junior College. He received his BS from West Virginia University when they still had that degree offered, and then moved to Texas to work on his MS in Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He worked in oil and gas and geotechnical fields for a couple years then went back to work on his PhD at the University of Houston, focused on Cretaceous Magmatism in the nascent gulf of Mexico. He later stepped away from his PhD to pursue a career in teaching at the community college level where he still resides today. In recent years he has partnered with the university of Houston to receive a National Science Foundation grant for his students to go into the field and conduct geologic explements and collections early in their academic careers.
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