Tag Archives: New York

Into the Niagara Gorge

Mark Wilson August 6, 2015 12:06 am

LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 6, 2015) — It holds one of the strongest river currents in the world, the gorge of the Niagara River below Niagara Falls. That tremendous flow has cut a deep canyon through the Silurian rocks of … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in New York

Mark Wilson August 5, 2015 12:05 am

LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 5, 2015) — What looks like an ordinary commercial quarry above is actually quite unusual. It is an excavation done entirely by amateur paleontologists (“citizen scientists”) to collect and preserve fossils from the Rochester Shale (Upper … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Orthid brachiopods from the Middle Devonian of New York

Mark Wilson August 29, 2014 1:14 am

On the first day of the Invertebrate Paleontology course at Wooster, I give all the students a fossil to identify as best they can. Everyone gets the same kind of specimen, and they can use any means to put as … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A pentamerid brachiopod from the Lower Silurian of New York

Mark Wilson April 21, 2013 1:19 am

Another brachiopod this week. This simple fossil is an internal mold of the brachiopod Pentamerus oblongus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1839). It was a very common and widespread taxon throughout North America and Europe in the Early Silurian. This particular … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Eurypterids (Late Silurian of New York)

Mark Wilson December 11, 2011 1:35 am

Few fossils are more dramatic than the long-extinct eurypterids. Above is one of Wooster’s best fossils: Eurypterus remipes De Kay 1825 from the Bertie Waterlime (Upper Silurian) of New York. (Thanks to Roy Plotnick for help with the identification.) As … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral (Middle Devonian of New York)

Mark Wilson September 4, 2011 1:43 am

This week’s specimen is from a group of fossils I gave my Invertebrate Paleontology students as “unknowns” to identify. Since it is their very first week of class I expected them to struggle, but many did remarkably well. (Congratulations to … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists Pass Through Travel Hell

Mark Wilson December 20, 2010 1:37 pm

I think the lowest moment was this morning as I stood in one of those long, snaking security lines in the Delta portion of Terminal 3 at JFK International Airport. The high ceiling has pigeon nests in it, and the … Continue reading →

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“The Heathrow Diversion”: Wooster Geologists unexpectedly in New York City

Mark Wilson December 19, 2010 3:24 pm

FLUSHING, QUEENS, NEW YORK–It seemed like such a good plan months ago. My Senior Independent Study student Megan Innis and I worked this summer in the American South with Paul Taylor and Caroline Sogot, as documented in this blog. We … Continue reading →

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