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A Wooster Geologist at Austerlitz and other Czech places

Mark Wilson June 13, 2019 6:13 am

Olomouc, Czech Republic –At our very first site, Holubice in the Czech Republic, the Miocene celliporid bryozoans are like baseballs. The site is in the middle of a vineyard, with the fossils eroding out of the loose sediment at our … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Slovakia and Austria

Mark Wilson June 12, 2019 6:12 am

Mikulov, Czech Republic — We have been very fortunate with the weather on our long IBA field excursion. Dazzling sunlit days and relatively cool evenings. Above is our first stop of the day — the Sandberg site with Miocene fossils … Continue reading →

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New publication on an Alaskan glacier – coauthored by a Wooster student, staff and faculty member

gwiles June 11, 2019 3:05 pm

Dr. Ben Gaglioti (Lamont-Doherty Tree Ring Lab and University of Alaska – Fairbanks) just published an article entitled: Timing and Potential Causes of 19th-Century Glacier Advances in Coastal Alaska Based on Tree-Ring Dating and Historical Accounts. Three of the coauthors … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in the High Tatras Mountains of northern Slovakia

Mark Wilson June 11, 2019 6:11 am

Bratislava, Slovakia — Today our continuing IBA field trip adventure started in the High Tatra Mountains at this spectacular glacial lake called Štrbské pleso. This is  very popular ski destination in central Europe. The sharp mountain peaks are granitic. Another … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Hungary and Slovakia

Mark Wilson June 10, 2019 6:10 am

Štrba, Slovakia — Today our field party drove from Budapest through northern Hungary into Slovakia. The day was brilliantly sunny. Our first stop was at a holy well near Szentkút, Hungary, to examine Miocene fossils (mostly bryozoans). High up in … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist in Budapest

Mark Wilson June 9, 2019 6:09 am

Budapest, Hungary — This month I have the privilege of attending the 18th meeting of the International Bryozoology Association (IBA) in Liberec, The Czech Republic. As is the tradition, there is a pre-meeting field trip, this time to sites in … Continue reading →

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Wooster and Dickinson students team up for geochemistry research

mpollock June 7, 2019 3:25 pm

[Wooster, OH] – A team of students from Wooster and Dickinson are working together on geochemistry research this summer. We’re using the compositions of Earth materials to understand geologic processes. Our main goal is to study the formation of volcanic … Continue reading →

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Dundee Falls: A beautiful waterfall in northeastern Ohio

Mark Wilson June 4, 2019 11:06 pm

Dundee, Ohio — One of the joys of summer for a geologist is the time to take short trips in the neighborhood to explore nature. This afternoon Greg Wiles, Nick Wiesenberg, Greg’s adventurous dog Arrow, and I drove about 45 … Continue reading →

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Constructive & Destructive Landforms at Mount Rainier National Park

acrawford May 30, 2019 8:55 pm

One common frame used to introduce landforms in introductory Geology courses is the idea of constructive and destructive forces that create and change them. (See, for example some K-12 resources here and here.) Constructive processes like the the deposition of sediment and … Continue reading →

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Lots of Rain v. Many Rainy Days

acrawford May 16, 2019 12:00 pm

The other day while on the phone with my sister, she complained about how bad the weather was. “It’s rained like every day since April 1st” was the statement. That was an exaggeration, so she then modified that statement to … Continue reading →

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