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Wooster Geologists in Ireland

mpollock January 6, 2016 5:08 pm

Greetings from Dublin! Mary Reinthal (’16) and I are attending the annual conference of the Volcano and Magmatic Studies Group (#VMSG2016) at Trinity College. Volcanologists, petrologists, geochemists, and geophysicists have gathered to share their research on igneous topics ranging from … Continue reading →

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Five-Year Anniversary Edition of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Devonian of northwestern Ohio

Mark Wilson January 1, 2016 12:38 am

This post of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week marks five years of this feature. If you’re counting, that is 260 entries, with never a week missed. To celebrate, I’m returning to the very first fossil in the series, a beautiful … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Tiny atrypid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 25, 2015 12:01 am

These exquisite little brachiopods are among the most abundant fossils in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati area. My Invertebrate Paleontology students collected dozens of them from the Waynesville Formation on our field trip to Caesar Creek Lake last semester. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Mark Wilson December 18, 2015 12:10 am

We have here another fossil collected by a Wooster student on the August 2015 College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. Eduardo Luna picked up this specimen of the tabulate coral Calapoecia huronensis (Billings, 1865) … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A common trilobite from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio

Mark Wilson December 11, 2015 12:28 am

This beautiful specimen was collected by Wooster student Eve Caudill on this year’s College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. It is the iconic trilobite Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste, 1910) from a soft, “buttery” shale in … Continue reading →

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A True Liberal Arts Experience

mpollock December 9, 2015 8:21 pm

Guest Blogger: Mary Reinthal If you were to poll the campus about their fall break, not many would say that they spent 20 hours over 2 days in an FTIR lab analyzing glass chips for volatile content. But if you … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Zig-zag oysters from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson December 4, 2015 12:01 am

These pretty little oysters are from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of Makhtesh Gadol in southern Israel. Because I regrettably missed going to Israel for fieldwork this summer, I thought I’d choose these exquisite fossils to be celebrated this … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fragmentary rostroconch from the Middle Devonian of Ohio

Mark Wilson November 27, 2015 12:15 am

Not all of our featured fossils are particularly beautiful, or even entire, but they are interesting in some way. Above is the broken cross-section of a rostroconch mollusk known as Hippocardia Brown, 1843. It was found somewhere in Ohio by … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tall brachiopod from the Devonian of western Russia

Mark Wilson November 20, 2015 12:01 am

In the summer of 2009 I had a field adventure in Russia. It was an extraordinary time. I learned considerable amounts of Russian geology and paleontology, of course, and was immersed in the Russian geological culture. Along the way I … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A striated brachiopod from the Silurian of New York

Mark Wilson November 13, 2015 12:04 am

Sometimes it is a Fossil of the Week simply because it is new to me. The brachiopods above are abundant in a thin layer of shells within the Lewiston Member of the Rochester Shale (Silurian, Wenlockian) in western New York … Continue reading →

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