| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1044 | 1979 | William A. Oliver Jr. | USGS | The Devonian sub-commission–Chauvinism and politics in science |
| 2 | 1044 | 1979 | Mary Jo Baedecker; William Back |
USGS | Hydro-geological processes and chemical reactions in a landfill |
| 3 | 1044 | 1979 | Edwin Roedder; Harvey Belkin |
USGS | Application of studies of fluid inclusions in Permian Salado sant, New Mexico, to problems of siting the WIPP nuclear waste repository |
| 4 | 1045 | 1979 | Adinolfi Frederick; Michael A. Smith |
USGS | Resource evaluation of the Baltimore Canyon area: Information from the B-2 COST well and a geochemical survey. |
| 5 | 1045 | 1979 | Charles A. Wood | National Museum of Natural History | Volcanological studies in the Ethiopian Rift Valley |
| 6 | 1045 | 1979 | Blair F. Jones; Alan H. Weir |
USGS | Clay mineral alteration in a modern oil shale lake |
| 7 | 1046 | 1979 | Bruce B. Hanshaw | USGS | Hydrogeochemical evolution of Caleta Xel-Ha, coastal Yucatan |
| 8 | 1046 | 1979 | Alvin Van Valkenburg | Geophysical Laboratory | Reactions at super-pressures |
| 9 | 1046 | 1979 | Gordon P. Eaton | USGS | Preliminary plate tectonic explanation for crustal rifting in the western U.S. |
| 10 | 1047 | 1979 | Jeffrey L. Warner | NASA | The lithosphere of Venus |
| 11 | 1047 | 1979 | David Sheridan | Council on Environmental Quality | The destruction of public lands by off-the-road vehicles |
| 12 | 1047 | 1979 | William G. Melson | National Museum of Natural History | Eruptive cycles of Arenal volcano, Costa Rica |
| 13 | 1048 | 1979 | Fred A. Donath | University of Illinois, Urbana | Perspectives on the isolation of radioactive wastes in geologic repositories |
| 14 | 1048 | 1979 | Bernard L. Cohen | Argonne National Laboratory | Salt and other geologic environments |
| 15 | 1048 | 1979 | Harrison H. Schmitt | US Senate, New Mexico | A resource in disguise |
| 16 | 1049 | 1979 | James J. Papike | State University of New York, Stony Brook | Mineralogy and petrology of planetary basalts |
| 17 | 1049 | 1979 | C. Wayne Burnham | Pennsylvania State University | Late magmatic and hydrothermal processes in ore formation |
| 18 | 1050 | 1979 | Barry Voight | Pennsylvania State University | Pore-pressure effect in catastrophic landslides |
| 19 | 1050 | 1979 | Marilyn F. Estep | Geophysical Laboratory | Biogeochemistry of stable hydrogen isotopes |
| 20 | 1050 | 1979 | Priestley Toulmin III | USGS | Martian mineralogy: a progress report |
| 21 | 1051 | 1979 | John Imbrie | Brown University | Forecasting the next ice age |
| 22 | 1051 | 1979 | Leon Knopoff | University of California, Los Angeles | Is there evidence for mantle-wide convection? |
| 23 | 1052 | 1979 | John Calvin, Reed Jr. | USGS | Recent tectonics along the Fall Line—suggestions from terraces and physiography in the Potomac River Gorge |
| 24 | 1052 | 1979 | Ray MacDonald | University of Lancaster, UK | Calderas—real and imagined—of the central Kenya rift |
| 25 | 1052 | 1979 | Erle G. Kauffman | National Museum of Natural History | Black shales, beautiful fossils and the anaerobic basin model. |
| 26 | 1053 | 1979 | T. Neil Irvine | Geophysical Laboratory | Magmatic density currents |
| 27 | 1053 | 1979 | John W. Winchester | Florida State University, Tallahassee | Aerosol sulfur in the atmosphere of the eastern United States |
| 28 | 1053 | 1979 | John M. Boyce | USGS, Flagstaff | Voyager 1 preliminary results -- geology of the Galilean satellites |
| 29 | 1054 | 1979 | John S. Dickey | National Science Foundation | Magma tracks in the Rhonda peridotite, southern Spain |
| 30 | 1054 | 1979 | Cyril Ponamperuma | University of Maryland | Organic matter in 3.8 billion-year-old sediments from Isua, Greenland |
| 31 | 1054 | 1979 | Bruce D. Marsh | Johns Hopkins University | Dynamics of Daly's and Grout's diapirs |
| 32 | 1055 | 1979 | Robert E. Weems | USGS | Evidence for flocking behavior in late Triassic bipedal reptiles (Best Paper 1979) |
| 33 | 1055 | 1979 | Grace S. Brush | Johns Hopkins University | Biostratigraphy of tributaries of Chesapeake Bay |
| 34 | 1055 | 1979 | Richard S. Fiske | National Museum of Natural History | Minarets Caldera; where granitic magmas of the Sierra Nevada batholith erupted to the surface (2nd Best Paper 1979) |
| 35 | 1056 | 1979 | Robert M. Hamilton | USGS | Faults and igneous intrusions in the new Madrid seismic zone of the northern Mississippi embayment shown by seismic reflection profiles |
| 36 | 1056 | 1979 | George D. Stanley | National Museum of Natural History | The earliest history of Mesozoic reef building; evidence from North America and Europe |
| 37 | 1056 | 1979 | Thomas L. Wright; Herbert R. Shaw; Robert I. Tilling; Richard S. Fiske |
USGS | Origin of Hawaiian tholeiitic basalts; a quantitative model |
| 38 | 1057 | 1979 | Lawrence D. Rowan | USGS | Application of remote sensing to mineral resource appraisal |
| 39 | 1057 | 1979 | David E. James | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Evidence of subduction of continental sediments beneath the central Andes |
| 40 | 1057 | 1979 | Kenneth M. Towe | National Museum of Natural History | Significance of an early wet atmosphere to the origin of life |
| 41 | 1058 | 1979 | Robert M. Hazen | Geophysical Laboratory | Bibliometrics and the significance of scientific research |
| 42 | 1058 | 1979 | Brian H. Mason | National Museum of Natural History | Antarctic meteorites |
| 43 | 1058 | 1979 | Vincent Ellis McKelvey | USGS | Prospects for metal production from deep-sea nodules |
| 44 | 1059 | 1979 | Daniel E. Appleman | National Museum of Natural History | Hunting the simple silicate. (Presidential Address) |