| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1170 | 1988 | Bruce Fegley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Impacts, acid rain and the extinction of the dinosaurs |
| 2 | 1170 | 1988 | Bjorn Mysen | Geophysical Laboratory | Rock-forming processes in the early solar system: Results from experimentally-determined vaporus surfaces of oxides and silicates |
| 3 | 1170 | 1988 | James B. Garvin | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Remote Probing of Impact Craters on the Earth |
| 4 | 1171 | 1988 | Owen P. Bricker | USGS | Acid rain: History and current research |
| 5 | 1171 | 1988 | David R. Veblen | Johns Hopkins University | Electron microscopy and crystal chemistry of deep crustal pyroxenes (2nd Best Paper 1988) |
| 6 | 1171 | 1988 | James D. Webster | USGS | Fluid-melt equilibration and the geochemical evolution of topaz rhyolite at Spor Mountain, Utah |
| 7 | 1172 | 1988 | Martha L. Scott | Texas A&M University | Radium and rivers: the Mississippi estuary |
| 8 | 1172 | 1988 | John B. Brady | Smith College | Hydrothermal metamorphism or Do metamorphic rocks stew in their own juices? |
| 9 | 1172 | 1988 | Marcia K. McNutt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The South Pacific Superswell |
| 10 | 1173 | 1988 | Samuel T. Pees | T. Pees and Associates | Early days along Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, 1859-1865 |
| 11 | 1173 | 1988 | R. Venkatakrishnan; Steven J. Kulver |
Old Dominion University | Plate boundaries for the Senegal microplate, West Africa |
| 12 | 1173 | 1988 | Robert F. Martin | McGill University/Johns Hopkins University | Melt inclusions in quartz in rhyolites: a key to the evolution of silicic magmas |
| 13 | 1174 | 1988 | John F. Slack | USGS | Boron isotopic studies of submarine hydrothermal systems, modern and ancient |
| 14 | 1174 | 1988 | Marcus Kay | Yale University/Smithsonian | Paleoenvironmental gradients in Ordovician Bryozoans: no place but Cincinnati |
| 15 | 1174 | 1988 | Clifford M. Nelson | USGS | Regional geologic mapping by the 4 1/2 'Great Surveys of the American West,' 1867-1879 |
| 16 | 1175 | 1988 | Charles D. Cunningham | USGS | Relationships between disseminated gold deposits, paleothermal anomalies, and Precambrian cratons in the U.S. and China |
| 17 | 1175 | 1988 | Erchie Wang; Jean J. Chu |
Academia Sinica | Collision tectonics in the Cenozoic orogenic zone bordering China, India, and Burma |
| 18 | 1175 | 1988 | Edward C. T. Chao | USGS | Characteristics of the Bayan Obo Fe-Nb-REE deposit of Inner Mongolia, China |
| 19 | 1176 | 1988 | Luther Carter | Author | Geologic isolation of nuclear waste: last stand in Nevada-the importance of gaining public trust |
| 20 | 1176 | 1988 | Stephan Brocum | US Department of Energy | Geoscience concerns related to design and performance issues at Yucca Mountain |
| 21 | 1176 | 1988 | Philip S. Justus | Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Geoscience issues at Yucca Mountain: the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission perspective |
| 22 | 1177 | 1988 | Carol Simpson | Johns Hopkins University | The objectivity of kinematic indicators to the subject of fault movement history: the example of the Fries thrust zone, southwestern Virginia (2nd Best Paper 1988) |
| 23 | 1177 | 1988 | David Benjamin Stewart; J.D. Phillips; John D. Unger; B.E. Wright |
USGS | New images of the Maine crust from Geographic Information Systems (Best Paper 1988) |
| 24 | 1177 | 1988 | Susan Kieffer | USGS, Flagstaff | Old Faithful Geyser: Could 100 ppm CO2 be important? |
| 25 | 1178 | 1988 | Anita G. Harris; John E. Repetski; J.A. Dumoulin |
USGS | The tropical Ordovician of arctic Alaska |
| 26 | 1178 | 1988 | Michael Max | Naval Research Laboratory | Terranes in the north circum-Atlantic area |
| 27 | 1178 | 1988 | Robert Wintsch | Indiana University | Thrust nappes versus fold nappes in the Avalon terrane of southeastern Connecticut |
| 28 | 1179 | 1988 | Joseph P. Smoot | USGS | Sedimentary processes in playa basins: a comparison of modern Australian basins and the Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup in the USA |
| 29 | 1179 | 1988 | David R. Soller | USGS | Three-dimensional analysis of glacial sediments in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains |
| 30 | 1179 | 1988 | John Stephen Huebner; Marta Flohr |
USGS | Protoliths and possible origins of banded manganese formations |
| 31 | 1180 | 1988 | Robert G. Coleman | Stanford University | Emplacement of the Semail Ophiolite |
| 32 | 1180 | 1988 | George E. Ericksen | USGS | Metalliferous deposits in Neogene-Quaternary volcanic centers of the central Andes |
| 33 | 1180 | 1988 | Ted A. Maxwell | National Air and Space Museum | Remote sensing of temporal changes of deserts |
| 34 | 1181 | 1988 | Douglas Rumble III | Geophysical Laboratory | Fluid flow in metamorphism. (Presidential Address) |