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Tag Archives: Ohio
Concluding 2018 summer research in the Tree Ring Lab
Summer 2018 research in the Tree Ring Lab has come to a close. The group of five students worked on a variety of projects, learning about the climate and history of Ohio and Alaska, and the application of different dendrochronological … Continue reading
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A geological and archaeological hike in northeastern Ohio on the last day of winter
It was a beautiful latest-winter day in Wooster. Nick Wiesenberg had the great idea of taking an afternoon to hike through Pee Wee Hollow, a wooded area of ravines, streams and rocky exposures a few miles northwest of Wooster near … Continue reading
How to Combat a Drought
About a month ago, I wrote on this blog about an exceptionally dry late summer for Wooster. It was dry enough to put much of northeast Ohio in a moderate drought. But of course the moment I published that blog … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a medullosalean pteridosperm (Upper Carboniferous of northeastern Ohio)
It is time we had another fossil plant in this series. The above specimen is Neuropteris ovata Hoffmann 1826, a relatively common bit of foliage in the Upper Carboniferous of North America. This is a pteridosperm, more commonly known as … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Bivalve escape trace fossils (Devonian and Cretaceous)
It is time again to dip into the wonderful world of trace fossils. These are tracks, trails, burrows and other evidence of organism behavior. The specimen above is an example. It is Lockeia James, 1879, from the Dakota Formation (Upper … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Strophomenid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio
Usually I find fossils in the field or lab and then craft a Fossil of the Week entry around them. This time, though, I started with a paper and then searched for fossils to illustrate it. I found this recent … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A stromatoporoid (Middle Devonian of central Ohio)
Stromatoporoids are very common fossils in the Silurian and Devonian of Ohio and Indiana, especially in carbonate rocks like the Columbus Limestone (from which the above specimen was collected). Wooster geologists encountered them frequently on our Estonia expeditions in the … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Upper Ordovician brachiopods and bryozoans from paleontology class collections
Last semester the Invertebrate Paleontology class at Wooster had its annual field trip into the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio. We had a great, if a bit muddy, time collecting fossils for each student’s semester-long project preparing, identifying, and interpreting … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Spiriferinid brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio
Sometimes I choose a Fossil of the Week from our Invertebrate Paleontology teaching collection because students have responded to it in some way. This week’s fossil brachiopod has confused my students a bit because it is an internal mold (unusual … Continue reading
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Ordovician cryptostome bryozoans from southern Ohio
A short entry this week because the annual meetings of the Geological Society of America and Paleontological Society begin this weekend in Denver. (Wooster is sending 17 students this year. Seventeen! A record for us.) The above image is a … Continue reading