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Team Yorkshire finishes its fieldwork

Mark Wilson June 15, 2015 6:15 am

SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND (June 15, 2015) — It is difficult to believe that yesterday was so cold and wet. Today was beautiful on the Yorkshire Coast. Mae Kemsley (’16), Meredith Mann (’16) and I traveled to Reighton Sands for one last … Continue reading →

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Another gorgeous day on the Yorkshire coast

Mark Wilson June 10, 2015 6:10 am

SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND (June 10, 2015) — We certainly can’t complain about the weather for our fieldwork in Yorkshire this year. Today was spectacular with blue skies and cool sea breezes. It made the long beach hikes very pleasant. This was … Continue reading →

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Exploring the coast north of Scarborough

Mark Wilson June 6, 2015 6:06 am

SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND (June 6, 2015) — Today Team Yorkshire got an early start this morning examining the Jurassic sections along the coast north of Scarborough. With Paul Taylor as our skilled English driver, we took the rental vehicle first to … Continue reading →

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Team Yorkshire explores Scarborough

Mark Wilson June 5, 2015 6:05 am

SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND (June 5) — It was a spectacular day on the coast of northeastern England. When Paul Taylor arrived by train at 10:30 this morning, the clouds broke and the sunlight streamed through. Mae and Meredith explored Scarborough in … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted scleractinian coral from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson March 27, 2015 1:38 am

This week’s fossil is in honor of Annette Hilton (’17), who is my Sophomore Research Assistant this year. She has been diligently working through a large and difficult collection of scleractinian corals from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Sponge and bivalve borings from the Miocene of Spain

Mark Wilson February 13, 2015 1:11 am

This week we have a rather unimposing limestone cobble, at least from the outside. It was collected way back in 1989 by my student Genga Thavi (“Devi”) Nadaraju (’90) as part of a Keck Geology Consortium field project in southeastern … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Another vermetid gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus

Mark Wilson January 16, 2015 12:04 am

Why another one of those strange twisty gastropods from the Pliocene of Cyprus for our Fossil of the Week? Because this one fooled me for years. Above is a pair of images of a specimen of the vermetid gastropod Petaloconchus … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted scallop from the Pliocene of Cyprus

Mark Wilson January 2, 2015 1:04 am

One of the very best paleontological sites I had the pleasure of collecting was on the hot Mesaoria Plain near the center of the island of Cyprus. It was the summer of 1996 and Steve Dornbos (’97) and I were … Continue reading →

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Phosphate success while Jurassic bryozoans remain elusive

Mark Wilson July 4, 2013 11:09 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Oscar Mmari celebrated on his second outcrop today the completion of his stratigraphic columns for his project on the phosphate-bearing portions of the Mishash Formation in the Negev of southern Israel. It is certainly the least pretty section … Continue reading →

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A shelly bonanza from the Pleistocene of Sicily

Mark Wilson June 5, 2013 11:45 pm

NOTO, SICILY, ITALY–Our second stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association field trip was in an unimpressive ditch (above) near Megara. But, of course, there is paleontological gold here: an assemblage of extremely well-preserved marine fossils. Colleague Andrej … Continue reading →

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