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Processing the Lake Core (and Tree Cores)

gwiles October 13, 2009 12:30 pm

Earlier posts from the Climate Change class showed the students coring trees and a lake for the various analysis described below. The goals are to examine climate in Ohio since the last Ice Age as recorded in lake sediments and … Continue reading →

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Newark Earthworks

mpollock October 10, 2009 4:28 pm

Dr. Pollock is teaching a First Year Seminar on the Collapse of Civilization and on Saturday, she and her students visited the Newark Earthworks. The earthworks consist of geometric earthen mounds that were built by the Hopewell people between 100 … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists Start a New School Year

mwilson September 30, 2009 10:04 am

WOOSTER, OHIO–We started this blog with an image of the 2008-2009 Geology Club members, and it is already time to introduce the 2009-2010 Wooster Geology Club — A happy, enthusiastic and eager crew they are! We are looking forward to … Continue reading →

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Coring Round Lake – A Record of Post Glacial Change

gwiles September 26, 2009 8:45 am
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Climate Change Class at Secrest Arboretum

gwiles September 24, 2009 3:21 pm
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Mineralogy-Structure Field Trip to Pennsylvania

mpollock September 15, 2009 9:24 pm

Last weekend, Dr. Judge’s and Dr. Pollock’s Structure and Mineralogy classes took a field trip to central Pennsylvania. It rained on Saturday, but that didn’t stop us from having a great time. We saw the most amazing pencil structures in … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist = NPR Star

mpollock September 10, 2009 10:58 pm

Tree rings, Lake Erie, and climate change are the topics of a recent NPR interview with Wooster’s own Greg Wiles. Greg and his research group have been making headlines for their study that suggests natural climate variability plays a role … Continue reading →

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End of Wooster Israeli Fieldwork — For Now

mwilson September 9, 2009 8:21 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–After today’s work near Makhtesh Ramon, our fieldwork is over for this season.  This evening I pack up our collections in my luggage, have a last dinner with Yoav and his family in their desert home, and then … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Vertebrate Paleontology

mwilson September 9, 2009 8:13 am

MAKHTESH RAMON, ISRAEL–On my last day of fieldwork Yoav took me to some wonderfully complex exposures of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks just north of Makhtesh Ramon. They tell a story of the origins of the Makhtesh anticlinal structure, especially the … Continue reading →

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Wading in the Jurassic Sea

mwilson September 9, 2009 8:07 am
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