WOOSTER, OHIO–It is now difficult to believe that we were measuring stratigraphic sections in a sleety thunderstorm on Saturday. Today the Tuesday lab of my Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course visited a local outcrop of the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous) to get more practice with stratigraphic techniques. What an enjoyable afternoon!
Students hard at work on the Logan Formation outcrop in Wooster. I’m hoping there’s no poison ivy in there.
Alex Hiatt and Cam Matesich looking very closely at the sandstone like good sedimentary geologists.
A set of male pine cones that have already distributed their pollen.
Andy Nash found this Eastern American Toad (Bufo americanus americanus) and our amphibian expert Ned Weakland captured it. Ned’s advisor Rick Lehtinen picked up a similar toad last semester on a short geology field trip. It made us feel all the more that we were in Spring at last.
