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About mwilson

Mark Wilson is an emeritus Professor of Geology at The College of Wooster. He specializes in invertebrate paleontology, carbonate sedimentology, and stratigraphy. He also is an expert on pseudoscience, especially creationism.

The puzzle of gypsum

mwilson November 15, 2009 11:25 am

Our Permian sections on this Texas trip have had thick beds of gypsum only a meter or three beneath our fossiliferous limestones and shales. Gypsum (calcium sulfate) is an evaporite mineral, indicating when the Permian shallow sea in this case … Continue reading →

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A new family of fossil clams from the Triassic of Israel

mwilson November 15, 2009 8:46 am

The latest issue of the journal Palaeontology has an article describing a new family of large clams from the Triassic of southern Israel. The authors include Allison Mione (’05), who pursued this project as part of her geology Independent Study. … Continue reading →

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You’re never alone on an outcrop

mwilson November 13, 2009 10:28 pm
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A West Texas outcrop

mwilson November 13, 2009 10:18 pm

BROWNWOOD, TEXAS–It was nearly a five hour drive from College Station, Texas, through the Hill Country to our first Permian exposure in West Texas. (We passed, by the way, through Killeen and Fort Hood.) It was worth the trip for … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Texas

mwilson November 12, 2009 9:46 pm

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS–I arrived this afternoon in beautiful central Texas to give a talk at Texas A&M University on bioerosion.  If you click the link you can see my PowerPoint slides.  The talk went well enough and there were many … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geology Alumni at GSA

mwilson October 20, 2009 1:49 am
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“Overcoming Resistance to the Reality of Evolutionary Change in Nature”

mwilson October 19, 2009 6:12 pm

PORTLAND, OREGON–This was the very direct title of an inspiring panel discussion today at the Geological Society of America meeting. It was sponsored by the Paleontological Society and included some of the strongest voices in the endless Evolution Wars: The … Continue reading →

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First Wooster talk at the 2009 GSA meeting

mwilson October 19, 2009 12:27 am

PORTLAND, OREGON–By now I’ve given over 35 talks at annual Geological Society of America meetings, but I still get as nervous as I did as a graduate student. The cavernous room, the high quality of the previous presentations, the people … Continue reading →

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First Wooster poster presentation of the 2009 GSA annual meeting

mwilson October 18, 2009 11:20 pm

Elyssa Belding Krivicich (’09) and Sophie Lehman (’08) cheerfully presenting their poster on Jurassic marine paleoecology in Israel at the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland.

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Conservation Paleobiology Short Course

mwilson October 18, 2009 12:43 pm

PORTLAND, OREGON–The Paleontological Society has a free short course program it runs on the day before the GSA meeting officially begins. When I began my career the topics were always about some taxonomic group such as “Brachiopods”, “Mollusks”, “Plants” and … Continue reading →

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