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Dr. Mark Wilson has been chosen to receive the Council on Undergraduate Research-Geoscience Division’s prestigious Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.

gwiles October 21, 2015 5:53 pm

Dr. Wilson works with junior Geology major Sarah McGrath in the Paleontology lab. Congratulations Dr. Wilson – well deserved (read the College release here).  

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Greetings from a Wooster Geologist in Scotland

Mark Wilson October 18, 2015 9:18 am

Annette Hilton (’17) is having a great time in Scotland, where she is spending a semester abroad. She had a chance to go on a geography field trip recently to the Isle of Kerrera, in the Inner Hebrides off the … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an upside-down nautiloid from the Devonian of Wisconsin

Mark Wilson October 16, 2015 12:01 am

This lump of a fossil in Wooster’s teaching collection requires some explanation. It is not particularly well preserved, but it is our only representative of an interesting group of nautiloid cephalopods. The label that came with it says it is … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists on the Gettysburg Battlefield

Mark Wilson October 12, 2015 11:57 pm

Gloria and I and our daughter Amy took advantage of the first days of Fall Break at Wooster to visit the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, about a 5.5 hour drive from home. The weather was spectacularly beautiful, as you can … Continue reading →

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A Wooster Geologist in Tanzania

Mark Wilson October 10, 2015 9:54 am

Oscar Mmari (’14) is a Wooster Geology alumnus who did field work in Israel as part of his Independent Study. After his graduation he has had excellent geological experience in Africa and Europe, most involving mining and other resource-related industries. … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A rugose coral and its encrusters from the Middle Devonian of New York

Mark Wilson October 9, 2015 12:11 am

This week’s fossils were found on a most excellent field trip to the Niagara region of New York in August. One of our outcrops was a small patch of gravel in Bethany Center where the Centerfield Limestone Member of the … Continue reading →

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From Rittman to Apple Creek

gwiles October 6, 2015 2:45 pm

Geomorphology (Geology 300) has been taking advantage of the good weather this Fall traveling in the area. Above the full class stands on a point bar of the Apple Creek. Waves go out to Brian Merritt who experienced an injury … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A spherical bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of northeastern Estonia

Mark Wilson October 2, 2015 12:01 am

Way back in July 2007 we had our first Team Estonia doing geological field research. Andrew Milligan (’08) and I, with our friend Dr. Olev Vinn of the University of Tartu, explored the Upper Ordovician of the northeastern part of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: “Lapis Judaicus” from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson September 25, 2015 12:56 am

Paul Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) is, along with his other talents, an expert on the folklore of fossils. His accounts of how fossils have been used and imagined in the past are fascinating, especially to paleontologists who work with … Continue reading →

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Team Yorkshire gets all geochemical

Mark Wilson September 20, 2015 6:00 pm

BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA–When we last saw Mae Kemsley (’16) and Meredith Mann (’16) in this blog, they were celebrating the end of their Senior Independent Study summer fieldwork on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. This weekend the three of … Continue reading →

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