Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class in Wooster Memorial Park. Watch this space!

1 Glacial 042316This morning Wooster’s Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class visited Wooster Memorial (“Spangler”) Park for some field experience. A few of the students are shown above exploring a magnificent glacial deposit. I never did get a photo with all 21 students in it.

2 Logan Rathburn RunThe students are each writing a blog entry about the geology of this park as a writing assignment. You can see the instructions and additional images on our course page. The best entry will soon be posted in this blog under the student’s name. Above is a nice stream-side outcrop of the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous).

3 Trillium trail 042316It was a chilly but mercifully dry day for us. Classic early spring foliage for northeastern Ohio. [Dr. Lyn Loveless, our expert botanist, comes through in the comments: “Classic Spring Foliage – mostly (it seems from this scale) Dutchman’s Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria.  One stray Trillium.  Ah, Spring in Ohio!”]

4 Trillium grandiflorum 042316 585The most noteworthy flower this week is Trillium grandiflorum, a beautiful three-petaled white flower with six stamens.

5 Purple flower 042316This purple flower is unknown to me so far. I hope a kind expert adds its name in the comments![Lyn Loveless again is the kind commenter: “Phlox divaricata – Wild blue phlox.”]

 

About Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson is a Professor of Geology at The College of Wooster. He specializes in invertebrate paleontology, carbonate sedimentology, and stratigraphy. He also is an expert on pseudoscience, especially creationism.
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3 Responses to Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class in Wooster Memorial Park. Watch this space!

  1. Lyn Loveless says:

    Phlox divericata – Wild blue phlox.

  2. Lyn Loveless says:

    Classic Spring Foliage – mostly (it seems from this scale) Dutchman’s Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria. One stray Trillium. Ah, Spring in Ohio!

  3. Mark Wilson says:

    Thanks, Lyn! Beautiful foliage.

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