Monthly Archives: August 2010

College of Wooster Department of Geology 2010 Annual Report

Mark Wilson August 21, 2010 8:23 am

A year in the life of our department, superbly compiled and organized by our Administrative Coordinator, Patrice Reeder. It looks especially good in color! This report summarizes student, faculty and staff activities and has an extensive alumni news section.

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Finishing our Tour of Yellowstone

sjudge August 20, 2010 11:23 am

After hiking through the Tetons, we continued our tour of Yellowstone by visiting a number of places in the eastern and northern portions of the park. We visited Signal Mountain Summit, which is a great overlook of the glacial outwash … Continue reading →

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Hiking in the Tetons

sjudge August 20, 2010 11:00 am

Due to such great weather, the group decided to go for a 9.6 mile hike (4.8 miles up and up and up and then back down again). We hiked the Lupine Meadows Trail NNW of Moose, Wyoming — in Grand … Continue reading →

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From Bozeman to Yellowstone to Jackson Hole

sjudge August 20, 2010 10:45 am

The Teaching in the Field Workshop left Bozeman for a whirlwind tour of Yellowstone and the Tetons. Our goal was to actually think about teaching in the field — while in the field!! Some of us concentrated on how we … Continue reading →

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Last stop in Europe: The Senckenberg Museum of Natural History

Mark Wilson August 18, 2010 1:33 pm

FRANKFURT, GERMANY–Isn’t that a great front yard for a Natural History Museum? Diplodocus longus strides by columnar basalt and a massive chunk of conglomerate. This is the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in downtown Frankfurt, about two blocks from my hotel. On my … Continue reading →

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Palisade Falls in Hyalite Canyon, Montana

sjudge August 16, 2010 11:24 pm

Today, we ended the indoor classroom portion of the Teaching in the Field Workshop with a lively discussion on the use of technology in the field. Everyone seemed to agree about its usefulness in research; however, there were many different … Continue reading →

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Summer coming to an end…

sjudge August 16, 2010 10:45 pm

Guest Blogger: Jesse Davenport Dear Meagen and Shelley, I hope you both like extremely sheared metamorphic and igneous 2 billion year old rocks because I have about 100 of them coming to Scovel in about a week. But really I … Continue reading →

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Fossils on the Meuse-Argonne Battlefield

Mark Wilson August 16, 2010 10:21 am

VIENNE LE CHATEAU, FRANCE–To my delight, while exploring the Meuse-Argonne area this morning, I found an exposure of marly Cretaceous sediments very near where my Grandfather’s tank brigade assembled for an attack at dawn on October 4, 1918. The sediment … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Mines: Vauquois, 1915-1918

Mark Wilson August 16, 2010 8:16 am

VIENNE LE CHATEAU, FRANCE–The influence of geology on war is shockingly clear on the Butte de Vauquois (N 49° 12′ 20.20”, E 5° 4′ 11.42”). This large hill (290 meters in elevation) is an outlier of the chalky detritic sandstone … Continue reading →

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Sacagawea Peak in the Bridger Range

sjudge August 15, 2010 11:38 pm

The entire group at the On the Cutting Edge Workshop (Teaching Geoscience in the Field) spent a few hours in the field talking about various teaching strategies. Our field site for this exercise was the Bridger Range, and we climbed … Continue reading →

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