Tag Archives: Kentucky

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: an encrusted nautiloid (Upper Ordovician of Kentucky)

Mark Wilson March 4, 2012 11:33 am

Two fossils this week in our series. The large segmented cone is a bisected nautiloid cephalopod from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky. The original shell (made of the mineral aragonite) has been dissolved away, leaving the sediment that filled … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Museums: Part 2 — The Creation Museum

Mark Wilson December 7, 2011 7:18 am

This past Saturday Elizabeth Schiltz of the Philosophy Department and I took our First-Year Seminar students on a long drive to the infamous Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. It was a beautiful day and we had a good time, if … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An edrioasteroid (Upper Ordovician of Kentucky)

Mark Wilson July 24, 2011 1:17 am

This week’s fossil appeared previously in this blog when we discussed hiatus concretions and their fossil fauna. It is one of my favorites for both how we found it (see the entry linked above) and the way it introduced me … Continue reading →

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The paleontology of hiatus concretions: fossils without sediment

Mark Wilson December 15, 2010 8:16 pm

Way back in 1984, when I was just a green Assistant Professor of Geology, my wife Gloria and I explored a series of Upper Ordovician (about 445 million years old) outcrops in northern Kentucky to plan a paleontology course field … Continue reading →

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A record of ancient earthquakes

Mark Wilson December 15, 2009 10:55 pm

MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY–Strong earthquakes produce seismic waves which can do much damage on land, as we well know.  They can also disturb unconsolidated sediments on shallow oceanic shelves and platforms, producing characteristically swirled structures called seismites.  The Upper Ordovician outcrop we … Continue reading →

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Mysterious out-of-place rocks in the Ordovician of Kentucky

Mark Wilson December 15, 2009 10:41 pm

MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY–Our short geological expedition to northern Kentucky today was to look at some odd blocks of limestone that sit suspended in the sediments as if they were dropped in while the sequence was accumulating. These rocks are bored by … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Kentucky

Mark Wilson December 15, 2009 10:12 pm

MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY–Today I visited the University of Cincinnati for a meeting of Aaron House’s thesis committee, on which I serve.  (Aaron is a 2004 geology graduate from The College of Wooster.)  It all went very well and soon after Aaron … Continue reading →

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