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How we measure the chemical composition of Earth materials
San Diego, CA – If you’ve been following our adventures, you know that we’ve started a project on Black Mountain with our collaborators at the University of San Diego. We’ve dedicated a significant portion of our time in California to … Continue reading
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Tagged benchtop, Black Mountain, EDS, geochemistry, mineral, SEM, soil, undergraduate research, University of San Diego, XRF
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Construction of the new Life Sciences building begins, and the geologists welcome our new biologist labmates
Wooster, Ohio — The College of Wooster community will soon say goodbye to Mateer Hall (above), which has housed the Biology Department for decades. It will be demolished next month to make way for the new Ruth Williams Hall of … Continue reading
Thinking like a scientist
San Diego, CA – Thinking like a scientist is a challenging and important learning goal for the Wooster Geologists, and one of the primary reasons that we engage our students in undergraduate research. Although science is often portrayed as a collection of facts … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Mountain, scientific method, undergraduate research, Vision Learning
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Geochemists know preparation is key
San Diego, CA – While the University of San Diego celebrated their commencement, we commenced lab work on the Black Mountain Project. We began by drying and sieving the soil samples that we collected earlier in the week. While her samples dry, … Continue reading
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Field Work on Black Mountain
San Diego, CA – Amineh AlBashaireh (’18) and I are working with USD scientists, Dr. Bethany O’Shea, Elizabeth Johnston, and Eric Cathcart on the geology of Black Mountain in San Diego, CA. The Santiago Peak Volcanics are exposed in the park. … Continue reading
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Tagged arsenic, Black Mountain, California, mine, rattlesnake, San Diego, soil, undergraduate research
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Wooster Geologists in San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA – Wooster Geologists don’t waste any time getting to work on their summer research. Amineh AlBashaireh (’18) and I have made our way to the University of San Diego to start on a new research project with our … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A phyllocarid crustacean from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada
We are fortunate at Wooster to have a few fossils from the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian) collected near Burgess Pass, British Columbia, Canada, including this delicate phyllocarid Canadaspis perfecta (Walcott, 1912). This species is one of the oldest crustaceans, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Burgess Shale, Cambrian, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Fossil of the Week, fossils
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Recent Sponge Boring from South Carolina
We’re not actually looking at fossils here, but this bivalve-coral-sponge assemblage from the very modern Myrtle Beach in South Carolina is too cool not to share. Jacob Nowell (Wooster ’18) picked it up while on Spring Break this year and … Continue reading
A Wooster Geologist Visits Spangler Park
Editor’s note: The following entry was written by Chloe Wallace (’17), a student in this year’s Sedimentology & Stratigraphy course. One of our writing assignments was to write a blog post about our recent field trip to Spangler Park (also … Continue reading
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Tagged Carboniferous, fossils, glacial, Pleistocene, Wooster
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A craniid brachiopod from the Upper Cretaceous of The Netherlands
These striking little brachiopods are gifts from Clive Champion, a generous Englishman with whom I occasionally exchange packets of fossils. In January I received a surprise box with lots of delicious little brachs, including the two shown above. I remember … Continue reading
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Tagged Cretaceous, Fossil of the Week, fossils, The Netherlands
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