Monthly Archives: September 2009

Wooster Geologists Start a New School Year

WOOSTER, OHIO–We started this blog with an image of the 2008-2009 Geology Club members, and it is already time to introduce the 2009-2010 Wooster Geology Club — A happy, enthusiastic and eager crew they are! We are looking forward to … Continue reading

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Coring Round Lake – A Record of Post Glacial Change

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Climate Change Class at Secrest Arboretum

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Mineralogy-Structure Field Trip to Pennsylvania

Last weekend, Dr. Judge’s and Dr. Pollock’s Structure and Mineralogy classes took a field trip to central Pennsylvania. It rained on Saturday, but that didn’t stop us from having a great time. We saw the most amazing pencil structures in … Continue reading

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Wooster Geologist = NPR Star

Tree rings, Lake Erie, and climate change are the topics of a recent NPR interview with Wooster’s own Greg Wiles. Greg and his research group have been making headlines for their study that suggests natural climate variability plays a role … Continue reading

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End of Wooster Israeli Fieldwork — For Now

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–After today’s work near Makhtesh Ramon, our fieldwork is over for this season.  This evening I pack up our collections in my luggage, have a last dinner with Yoav and his family in their desert home, and then … Continue reading

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A Bit of Vertebrate Paleontology

MAKHTESH RAMON, ISRAEL–On my last day of fieldwork Yoav took me to some wonderfully complex exposures of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks just north of Makhtesh Ramon. They tell a story of the origins of the Makhtesh anticlinal structure, especially the … Continue reading

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Wading in the Jurassic Sea

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I Have Plenty of Faults

MAKHTESH GADOL, ISRAEL–One of the goals of this trip to the Negev was to map and analyze a series of faults Wooster geology students and Yoav Avni have found during our five years of fieldwork in Makhtesh Gadol.  Our projects … Continue reading

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Jurassic Cryptic Marine Ecosystems

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