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The painful history of the Sõrve Peninsula, Saaremaa, Estonia

mwilson July 6, 2011 1:06 pm

KURESSAARE, ESTONIA–This country has had the historical misfortune to lie between the Russians to the east and the Germans to the west with all their imperial ambitions in the last few centuries. The terrain is deeply glaciated and thus has … Continue reading →

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Alaska 2011

gwiles July 6, 2011 11:43 am

Guest Blogger: Sarah Appleton Wooster Geology takes its students all across the globe and this time they have traveled to the distant land of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (http://www.nps.gov/glba/index.htm), Alaska, for a better look at the sedimentation, ancient … Continue reading →

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Return to a Silurian crinoid forest

mwilson July 5, 2011 10:51 am

KURESSAARE, ESTONIA–Today our Wooster Geology team visited a favorite outcrop of mine: the Äigu Beds of the Kaugatuma Formation exposed on the northwestern shore of the Sõrve Peninsula on Saaremaa. These are Late Silurian (Pridoli) limestones with a great abundance … Continue reading →

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Last day at Undirhlíðar

mpollock July 4, 2011 5:30 pm

HAFNARFJORDUR, ICELAND: Guest blogger: Lindsey Today we wrapped up my field work in Undirhlíðar by double-checking our annotated photos and a brief tour of the West wall to confirm our hypothesis that the olivine rich pillow unit continued consistently along this … Continue reading →

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Back to the Big Island for the Fourth of July

mwilson July 4, 2011 10:48 am

KURESSAARE, SAAREMAA, ESTONIA–The Wooster Geologists Estonia Team today braved the Baltic Sea again and took a ferry from the island of Hiiumaa to return to their previous field sites on the island of Saaremaa. We worked at Soeginina Cliff on … Continue reading →

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Tubes, Trolls, and the West Wall

mpollock July 4, 2011 7:24 am

HAFNARFJORDUR, ICELAND- [guest bloggers Travis and Lindsey] We only spent about 2 hours in Undirhlíðar yesterday due to the gale force winds that sent basalt shrapnel flying into our faces, in particular our eyeballs. It wasn’t raining luckily, as raindrops … Continue reading →

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Saying goodbye to the little island of Hiiumaa

mwilson July 3, 2011 10:25 am

KÄINA, ESTONIA–Today we had our last visit to our Silurian quarry working site (where I photographed the Paleofavosites coral fossil above, which by the way was preserved upside-down in the sequence), and then we had lunch in the town of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Nummulitid foraminiferans (Eocene of the United Arab Emirates)

mwilson July 3, 2011 6:14 am

The Great Pyramids of Egypt are made primarily of a yellowish limestone. About 40% of that limestone is made of the fossil type pictured above. These are foraminiferans (single-celled organisms with shells) that lived by the countless billions during the … Continue reading →

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Using the iPad in geologic field work-Part 2

mpollock July 2, 2011 4:29 pm

HAFNARFJORDUR, ICELAND- Guest Blogger: Lindsey Bowman Our Estonia-based colleagues certainly have an advantage when it comes to timely blog posts; lagging three hours behind we are now appearing redundant in our post topic! We too have been using the iPad … Continue reading →

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Using the iPad in geological fieldwork

mwilson July 2, 2011 9:55 am

KÄINA, ESTONIA–It is not yet one of my regular bits of field equipment, and I am certainly far from an expert with its use, but I can say a few things about the value of an iPad in geological fieldwork. … Continue reading →

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