Monthly Archives: July 2016

Keck Iceland takes over the Wooster Lab

mpollock July 18, 2016 8:51 am

Wooster, OH – Keck Iceland 2016 by the numbers: Scientists in Keck Iceland: 10 Time in the field: 14 days Pillows described in detail: >40 Samples collected: 71 Structural measurements made: 94 Photos taken: >2000 GPS data recorded: ridiculous With a few … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist at Argonne National Laboratory

Mark Wilson July 16, 2016 12:01 am

Editor’s note: 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 … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A molluscan assemblage from the Miocene of Maryland

Mark Wilson July 15, 2016 12:01 am

Earlier this month a gentleman stopped by The Department of Geology and donated the above beautiful slab of fossils to our program. Dale Chadwick of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an avid amateur fossil collector with a very useful website and considerable … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An ammonite from the Middle Jurassic of southern England

Mark Wilson July 8, 2016 12:01 am

We’re featuring just a workaday fossil this week because of other summer activities. This is the ammonite Leptosphinctes Buckman 1929 from the Inferior Oolite (Middle Jurassic) at Coombe Quarry, Mapperton, Dorset, southern England. Cassidy Jester (’17) and I collected it … Continue reading →

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23 Hours of Sunlight and 22 Hours of Bugs (Part 2)

gwiles July 5, 2016 2:36 pm

Guest bloggers: Andrew Wayrynen and Jeff Gunderson We take our berry picking very seriously Oh so you thought you got rid of Team Alaska, didn’t you? Yeah well, just as there are as many cedar sites in Juneau as there … Continue reading →

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Keck Students Doing Rock Hard Research

mpollock July 4, 2016 11:25 am

Hafnarfjörður, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18)              

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The Sulfur Saga

mpollock July 3, 2016 11:25 am

Hafnarfjörður, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18)

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A Journey to the Land of Basalt

mpollock July 2, 2016 11:24 am

Hafnarfjörður, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18)   Vesicles and phenocrysts are great characteristics to help differentiate pillow units. The large white dots are plagioclase phenocrysts and the yellow to green dots are inclusions of olivine.      

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An Experience and an Upset

mpollock July 1, 2016 11:24 am

Reykjavik, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18) Carl-Lars Engen (Beloit ’17), among thousands of Islanders gathered in the capital, Reykjavik. Fans were cheering on the national team in the Euro Cup round of 16 against England. We were fortunate enough to … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Iron-oxide oncoids (“snuff-boxes”) from the Middle Jurassic of southern England

Mark Wilson July 1, 2016 12:01 am

These fossils (in the broad sense!) are inevitable for our weekly feature considering how much time we spent studying and collecting them during last month’s fieldwork in Dorset, southern England. “Snuff-boxes” are the subject of Cassidy Jester’s (’17) Senior Independent … Continue reading →

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