Monthly Archives: February 2013

The Dendrochronology Team of Wooster Geologists makes its television debut

“Barn Detectives” is a recent episode of the television show Our Ohio, and it features Dr. Greg Wiles and his team of crack dendrochronologists. You can view the video by clicking the link. It is very well done. The project … Continue reading

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A bryozoan etching (Upper Ordovician of Indiana)

Another trace fossil of a sort this week. Above you see the dorsal valve exterior of a strophomenid brachiopod from the Upper Ordovician of southeastern Indiana. Across the surface is a network of grooves looking a bit like a spider … Continue reading

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Celebrating the achievements of Wooster Geologists

WOOSTER, OHIO –One of the pleasures of being the chair of the Geology Department at Wooster is that I get to go to the annual college Awards Banquet with some of our best students. Tonight we celebrate three young women … Continue reading

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Encrusting tubes from the Devonian of Michigan

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) image above shows the tubes of the encrusting group known as hederelloids. They are among my favorite fossils. I was reminded of them recently while reading this advertisement for a novel in which, to my … Continue reading

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Sea urchin bites from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Israel

What you see above is a bit of oyster shell with some curious small gouges in it. The oyster is Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana (Lamarck, 1801) from the En Yorqe’am Formation (Cenomanian) exposed in Hamakhtesh Hagadol, southern Israel. The deep scratches … Continue reading

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Women scientists at Wooster, featuring Wooster Geologist Shelley Judge

Dr. Shelley Judge begins this excellent short video about women in science at Wooster: (You have to click the link I made in the text above. Embedding a video in a blog post is beyond my skills!) We’re proud of … Continue reading

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A very thin coral from the Upper Ordovician of Indiana

What we have above is a heliolitid coral known as Protaraea richmondensis Foerste, 1909. It has completely encrusted a gastropod shell with its thin corallum. Stephanie Jarvis, a Wooster student at the time and now a graduate student at Southern … Continue reading

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