Monthly Archives: October 2015

Wooster’s Pseudofossils of the Week: Cone-in-cone structures from southern Ohio

Mark Wilson October 30, 2015 12:04 am

Author’s note: James Chesire convinced me through the comments and later correspondence that what we actually have here are cone-in-cone structures, not shatter cones. I’ve thus changed the title but have left the post below in its original form. They … Continue reading →

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Nicolás Young (’05) receives a 2015 Blavatnik Award for his work measuring ice sheet response to past climate change.

gwiles October 29, 2015 9:45 am

Congratulations Nicolás (now a researcher in the Cosmogenic Nuclide Group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ) – Read more about Nicolás’ work and his award here.

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Wooster’s Fossil (Maybe) of the Week: Kinneyia ripples

Mark Wilson October 23, 2015 12:01 am

While hiking through the Niagara Gorge on a field trip in August, my friend Andrej Ernst of the University of Kiel found the above block of siltstone from the Grimsby Formation (Silurian) with unusual small-scale ripples in a patch. Carl … Continue reading →

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Dr. Mark Wilson has been chosen to receive the Council on Undergraduate Research-Geoscience Division’s prestigious Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.

gwiles October 21, 2015 5:53 pm

Dr. Wilson works with junior Geology major Sarah McGrath in the Paleontology lab. Congratulations Dr. Wilson – well deserved (read the College release here).  

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Greetings from a Wooster Geologist in Scotland

Mark Wilson October 18, 2015 9:18 am

Annette Hilton (’17) is having a great time in Scotland, where she is spending a semester abroad. She had a chance to go on a geography field trip recently to the Isle of Kerrera, in the Inner Hebrides off the … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an upside-down nautiloid from the Devonian of Wisconsin

Mark Wilson October 16, 2015 12:01 am

This lump of a fossil in Wooster’s teaching collection requires some explanation. It is not particularly well preserved, but it is our only representative of an interesting group of nautiloid cephalopods. The label that came with it says it is … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists on the Gettysburg Battlefield

Mark Wilson October 12, 2015 11:57 pm

Gloria and I and our daughter Amy took advantage of the first days of Fall Break at Wooster to visit the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, about a 5.5 hour drive from home. The weather was spectacularly beautiful, as you can … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist in Tanzania

Mark Wilson October 10, 2015 9:54 am

Oscar Mmari (’14) is a Wooster Geology alumnus who did field work in Israel as part of his Independent Study. After his graduation he has had excellent geological experience in Africa and Europe, most involving mining and other resource-related industries. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A rugose coral and its encrusters from the Middle Devonian of New York

Mark Wilson October 9, 2015 12:11 am

This week’s fossils were found on a most excellent field trip to the Niagara region of New York in August. One of our outcrops was a small patch of gravel in Bethany Center where the Centerfield Limestone Member of the … Continue reading →

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From Rittman to Apple Creek

gwiles October 6, 2015 2:45 pm

Geomorphology (Geology 300) has been taking advantage of the good weather this Fall traveling in the area. Above the full class stands on a point bar of the Apple Creek. Waves go out to Brian Merritt who experienced an injury … Continue reading →

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