Tag Archives: Nevada

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Reptile tracks from the Lower Permian of southern Nevada

Mark Wilson November 6, 2015 12:02 am

Always lead with your most interesting image. The fossil here is the thin orange slab of siltstone underneath my magnificent Komodo Dragon model. Here is the slab itself. On the far right and the far left you can see two … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A chaetetid demosponge from the Upper Carboniferous of southern Nevada

Mark Wilson June 5, 2015 12:23 am

I collected this lump of a specimen during my dissertation research in the Bird Spring Formation (Carboniferous-Permian) of southern Nevada. It was found in a richly-fossiliferous Upper Carboniferous (Moscovian) portion near Mountain Springs Pass, which is about 40 km southwest … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Echinoid fragments from the Upper Carboniferous of southern Nevada

Mark Wilson December 8, 2013 1:18 am

  This rock has been in my Invertebrate Paleontology course teaching collection since I arrived in Wooster. I collected it way back when I was doing my fieldwork for my dissertation on the biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Bird Spring … Continue reading →

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Last day in the Mojave Desert for Wooster Geologists … this year

Mark Wilson March 15, 2013 12:54 pm

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–We left the fine people at the Desert Studies Center in Zzyzx in the morning and drove in an all-too-irregular way through Las Vegas (sorry about that, other drivers!) to the spectacular Red Rocks National Conservation Area northwest … 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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Wooster Geologists in the Air!

Mark Wilson March 6, 2010 10:23 am

CLEVELAND TO LAS VEGAS–The Wooster Geology Department has started a week-long Spring Break field trip to the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada and California.  Our Desert Geology course has been so far eight weeks of preparation for this expedition, which … Continue reading →

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