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Digital Geology

mpollock May 10, 2011 11:13 pm

With all of the excitement over digital presentations in Wooster’s Senior I.S. Symposium, we thought that it’s about time to highlight recent digital presentations with a geology twist. Enjoy! Here’s a Vuvox collage of Becky’s Senior I.S. Project on the … Continue reading →

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A muddy but successful encounter with the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in southern Ohio

Mark Wilson April 30, 2011 7:37 pm

JACKSON, OHIO — Usually the Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class from Wooster meets no one at this Carboniferous outcrop on US 35 in Jackson County. This morning, though, we arrived to find geology students from Wright State University (under Professor David … Continue reading →

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An outpost of Wooster in the Mojave celebrates today’s basketball victory!

Mark Wilson March 18, 2011 10:50 pm

(Guest post from Lindsey Bowman.) After an afternoon of rewarding trilobite collecting, nothing was more welcome than the news this afternoon from Salem, Virginia. Our basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division III finals after defeating Williams College by two … Continue reading →

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A tuff afternoon

Mark Wilson March 17, 2011 11:45 pm

ZZYZX, CALIFORNIA–After lunch we took a long drive south and east to the Hole-In-The-Wall visitor center and trail. Exposed here are diverse and colorful rocks called tuffs that were formed by pyroclastic eruptions from volcanoes roughly 18.5 million years ago. … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists return to the Mojave Desert

Mark Wilson March 13, 2011 10:59 pm

ZZYZX, CALIFORNIA–All four geology faculty members, our administrative coordinator Patrice Reeder, Jesse Wiles and eight students have safely arrived at the Desert Studies Center in the delightful Zzyzx.  We spent a few hours exploring the Jurassic sandstones exposed in the … Continue reading →

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Theory to Practice on Ice

gwiles February 1, 2011 8:34 pm

A group from the Wooster community, the University of Cincinnati, The College of Wooster and St. Lawrence University assembled in Wooster for the weekend to mount an expedition to recover many meters of lake mud from the bottom of Round … Continue reading →

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The academic year begins: Fall 2010 Geology Club at Wooster

Mark Wilson September 2, 2010 11:59 am

Students, staff and faculty of the Geology Department, The College of Wooster (2010-2011). Front Row: Sarah Appleton (‘12), Megan Innis (‘11), Katharine Schleich (‘12), Anna Mudd (’13), Ilana Ben-Zvi (’13), Melissa Torma (’13), Jenn Horton (’13); Second Row: Tyler Rhoades … Continue reading →

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Mineralogy of Acid Mine Drainage

mpollock December 4, 2009 4:42 pm

The Mineralogy of Acid Mine Drainage, presented by Lindsey Bowman (’12).

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It was a dark and stormy night…Halloween in Mineralogy

mpollock October 30, 2009 7:30 pm

Tomorrow is Halloween, but Mineralogy students celebrated the holiday today by dressing as their favorite optical property. Guess what the people in the picture below are dressed as (hint: they are all under crossed polars!). The people below appear every … Continue reading →

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Processing the Lake Core (and Tree Cores)

gwiles October 13, 2009 12:30 pm

Earlier posts from the Climate Change class showed the students coring trees and a lake for the various analysis described below. The goals are to examine climate in Ohio since the last Ice Age as recorded in lake sediments and … Continue reading →

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