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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.

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A colonial scleractinian coral from the Pliocene of Cyprus

mwilson November 10, 2013 1:58 am

This week’s fossil is another from the collection made in 1996 on a Keck Geology Consortium expedition to Cyprus with Steve Dornbos as a Wooster student. Steve and I found a spectacular undescribed coral reef in the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) … Continue reading →

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Citizen scientist to the rescue (in more ways than one)

mwilson November 9, 2013 6:16 pm

NEW LONDON, OHIO–The Wooster paleontologists spent a pleasant afternoon with our favorite amateur fossil collector Brian Bade. Brian has been mentioned in this blog previously for the many important fossils he has found and donated. He is a spectacular citizen … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Very common orthocerid nautiloids from the Siluro-Devonian of Morocco

mwilson November 3, 2013 1:39 am

If you’ve been to a rock shop, or even googled “fossil”, you’ve seen these beautiful and ubiquitous objects. They are polished sections through a nautiloid known as “Orthoceras“. We put quotes around the genus name because with these views it … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists at GSA 2013: Last one standing

mwilson October 30, 2013 4:05 pm

And that would be me. This morning I gave a talk about a project Paul Taylor and I have been working on for about two years. In fact, it was about a year ago that I was in the Smithsonian … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Team Utah completes its presentations at the 2013 GSA meeting in Denver

mwilson October 29, 2013 8:28 am

DENVER, COLORADO–Tricia Hall (’14) stands before her 2013 Geological Society of America poster: “Petrologic and kinematic analysis of deformation bands in the Late Cretaceous Sixmile Canyon Formation, central Utah“. She worked hard this summer with Dr. Shelley Judge pounding away … Continue reading →

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The Wooster Geologists of Team Alaska present at the 2013 Geological Society of America Meeting

mwilson October 29, 2013 7:39 am

DENVER, COLORADO–We last saw the dynamic tree-coring duo of Abby VanLeuven (’14) and Andy Nash (’14) in wet, muddy, glorious Alaska pursuing their Independent Study research with Dr. Greg Wiles. They cleaned up nicely and today presented two posters at … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists Alumni Reception at the 2013 Geological Society Annual Meeting in Denver

mwilson October 28, 2013 11:13 pm

DENVER, COLORADO–It is a tradition at the annual GSA meeting to have a Wooster Geologists alumni gathering. Here is this evening’s happy crew of current students, faculty and alumni — or at least a snapshot of a continuum of people … Continue reading →

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Team Utah’s first presentation at GSA 2013

mwilson October 28, 2013 8:32 pm

DENVER, COLORADO–Michael Williams (who chose a particularly impressive shirt and tie today) and Dr. Shelley Judge presented a poster at the Geological Society of America meeting entitled: “Evidence for inflation and deflation in lavas flows west of Miter Crater, Ice … Continue reading →

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Geology Independent Study at Wooster highlighted at GSA meeting in Denver

mwilson October 28, 2013 8:25 pm

DENVER, COLORADO–This afternoon Dr. Meagen Pollock presented a poster at the Geological Society of America entitled: “The history, current best practices, and future trajectory of the Independent Study (I.S.) program at The College of Wooster“. In this work, co-authored with … Continue reading →

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Wooster paleontologists present at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver

mwilson October 28, 2013 5:36 pm

DENVER, COLORADO–Yesterday Oscar Mmari (’14) gave the first presentation from Wooster’s Team Israel 2013 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. Today our two paleontologists on the team discussed their posters. Above is Lizzie Reinthal … Continue reading →

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