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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category. Black and Gold Weekend – The Tree Ring Lab. September 17th, 2016. Thanks to Beau Mastrine and Campus Grounds we continue to celebrate the designation of “ Tree Campus USA. 8220; Today is Black and Gold Weekend and the Wooster Tree Ring Lab students explained their research, conversed about trees, and learned from College arborists and the City of Wooster. Andrew takes a break from the Tree Ring table. Here’s ...
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Final day in the Silurian of New York
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Final day in the Silurian of New York. August 9th, 2015. We worked this morning in Caleb’s Quarry, a place we visited on our first day. Paul Chinnici, one of the fossil enthusiasts working this quarry, was our generous host. We were impressed with how much has changed in just the five days since our last time here. The large excavation above, for example, is new. This is fossil-collecting at a very large scale! Many of the blocks show a turbidite-lik...
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A receptaculitid (Middle Ordovician of Missouri)
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A receptaculitid (Middle Ordovician of Missouri). September 18th, 2011. This week’s fossil is a long-standing paleontological mystery. Above is a receptaculitid from the Kimmswick Limestone (Middle Ordovician) near Ozora, Missouri. I think I found it on a field trip with Frank Koucky. In the distant mists of my student days at Wooster, but so many outcrops, so many fossils …. So what were the receptaculitids? Another Woo...
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Small and common orthid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Small and common orthid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio. August 7th, 2015. Now I learn from my colleagues Alycia Stigall. At their great Cincinnatian websites that since 2012 I should be referring to this species as. Miller, 1875). Jisuo Jin. Sorted out its taxonomy in a. Article three years ago:. This slab, which resides in our Geology 200. Teaching collection, was found at the famous Caesar Creek locality.
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Return to the Silurian of New York
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Return to the Silurian of New York. August 8th, 2015. LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 8, 2015) — Andrej and I began some deep collecting of Silurian localities in the Lockport area today in our survey of the bryozoan and sclerobiont faunas. The sites are, shall we say, not the most attractive, so let’s start with this common but gorgeous flower along the roadsides in western New York:. Our last site of the day was along the entrance road to a quarry. ...
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Wooster Geologists » climate change
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Wooster Geologist at Argonne National Laboratory. July 16th, 2016. The following post is from guest blogger Clara Deck (’17). About her research experience this summer with an internship at one of the world’s most prominent laboratories. She is working on an important climate change project involving the carbon budget of permafrost. Last summer Clara completed a dendrochronology climate project. In Wooster with Dr. Greg Wiles. About 25% of land mass ...
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Wooster Geologists » Carboniferous
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Tiny athyridide brachiopods from the Lower Carboniferous of the West Midlands of England. September 9th, 2016. These little brachiopods were also in the recent gift package from Clive Champion, our English brachiopod expert and friend. They tested my photographic skills, being too large for our photomicroscope and at the limit of resolution for my camera with its extension tubes. They are the athyridide. The hole for th...
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Team Utah 2015
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. August 6th, 2015. Guest bloggers: Julia Franceschi and Mary Reinthal. What do you get when you have zero cloud coverage, 90-degree heat, and a desert? Utah was extremely hot and there were some days (and by some days I mean everyday) where 3 liters of water were not enough. But we managed to get a lot of good data, even though my boots took a beating (R.I.P). Team Utah meeting to distribute equipment and plan the field day. One of our lizard friends.
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A very large Upper Jurassic ammonite from southern England
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A very large Upper Jurassic ammonite from southern England. August 14th, 2015. The shard above doesn’t look like much. It comes from a specimen far too large for us to excavate, let alone pack onto a plane for the trip home. Here’s a view of one of the full specimens still in bedrock. And here we see a liberated specimen with Katherine Nicholson Marenco. 8217;03) for scale 12 years ago. This is the ammonite. The many sur...
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Wooster Geologists » Blog Archive » Into the Niagara Gorge
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A World to Explore. About the Wooster Geologists Blog. Into the Niagara Gorge. August 6th, 2015. LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 6, 2015) — It holds one of the strongest river currents in the world, the gorge of the Niagara River. We hiked along the Gorge Trail on the USA side upriver from Lewiston. The trail is actually an old road built for transport of construction materials used for the hydroelectric dams upriver. I tried to get a surreptitious picture of my German colleague Andrej Ernst. Built on the Can...
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