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Wooster Geologists in the Negev

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — Andrew Retzler, Micah Risacher and I arrived in southern Israel yesterday evening after a 24-hour journey from Wooster.  (My boots still have Mississippi mud on them, by the way.)  Our primary mission on this trip is … Continue reading

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A new family of fossil clams from the Triassic of Israel

The latest issue of the journal Palaeontology has an article describing a new family of large clams from the Triassic of southern Israel. The authors include Allison Mione (’05), who pursued this project as part of her geology Independent Study. … Continue reading

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First Wooster poster presentation of the 2009 GSA annual meeting

Elyssa Belding Krivicich (’09) and Sophie Lehman (’08) cheerfully presenting their poster on Jurassic marine paleoecology in Israel at the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland.

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End of Wooster Israeli Fieldwork — For Now

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–After today’s work near Makhtesh Ramon, our fieldwork is over for this season.  This evening I pack up our collections in my luggage, have a last dinner with Yoav and his family in their desert home, and then … Continue reading

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A Bit of Vertebrate Paleontology

MAKHTESH RAMON, ISRAEL–On my last day of fieldwork Yoav took me to some wonderfully complex exposures of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks just north of Makhtesh Ramon. They tell a story of the origins of the Makhtesh anticlinal structure, especially the … Continue reading

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Wading in the Jurassic Sea

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I Have Plenty of Faults

MAKHTESH GADOL, ISRAEL–One of the goals of this trip to the Negev was to map and analyze a series of faults Wooster geology students and Yoav Avni have found during our five years of fieldwork in Makhtesh Gadol.  Our projects … Continue reading

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Jurassic Cryptic Marine Ecosystems

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Watched

MAKHTESH GADOL, ISRAEL–Our primary field area on this trip is near Dimona, Israel.  Outside the town is a famous facility with domed buildings and a very well guarded fence, complete with cameras and razor wire.  My Israeli friends tell me … Continue reading

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“I Know a Tree …”

MAKHTESH GADOL, ISRAEL–Shade of any kind is rare in the Negev Desert, especially from trees.  At lunchtime in the field we want very much to be out of the sun, so usually someone suggests a lonely tree they know along … Continue reading

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