Tag Archives: Jurassic

A splash into the Jurassic on our last Negev field day

Mark Wilson June 15, 2010 8:04 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — Today we traveled northeast of Mitzpe Ramon to Makhtesh Gadol (“The Large Crater”) to look at some Jurassic fossils in the Matmor Formation.  I had to take a few photographs and collect some cool crinoids there, … Continue reading →

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PA Geological Survey Field Trip

mpollock May 27, 2010 7:00 pm

Sorry to have kept you waiting so long for the ending of the PA diabase field trip. Last Friday, we spent a wonderful day in the field with a group from the PA State Geological Survey. After a week in … Continue reading →

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Scarlet and Gray in Southern Nevada

Mark Wilson March 6, 2010 11:33 am

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–After our long flight we drove our three vans a few miles west of Las Vegas to visit the spectacular Red Rocks National Conservation Area.  Greg Wiles and I were astonished to see how much construction had taken … Continue reading →

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A bit of the Jurassic in southern California

Mark Wilson November 27, 2009 9:17 pm

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA–A nice geological interlude for this Wooster geologist during a family Thanksgiving.  This afternoon we visited Los Peñasquitos (meaning little cliffs) Canyon Preserve in San Diego County.  We walked about two miles along a trail to an exposure … Continue reading →

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First Wooster poster presentation of the 2009 GSA annual meeting

Mark Wilson October 18, 2009 11:20 pm

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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Wading in the Jurassic Sea

Mark Wilson September 9, 2009 8:07 am
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I Have Plenty of Faults

Mark Wilson September 9, 2009 8:04 am

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

Mark Wilson September 8, 2009 12:03 pm
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Wandering in the Wilderness (Literally)

Mark Wilson September 7, 2009 1:08 pm

MAKHTESH GADOL, ISRAEL–Today I mapped exposures of a particular fossiliferous unit in the Matmor Formation. It meant climbing up and down steep hills bent over the ground scanning for fossils. It is a remarkable skill we humans have for visually … Continue reading →

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Ammonite Identified

Mark Wilson September 6, 2009 1:46 pm

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL–I don’t really think the readers of this blog have been anxiously waiting to hear the taxonomic identification of the ammonite I found in the Matmor Formation last week.  It is worth a note, though, to briefly describe how … Continue reading →

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