Tag Archives: Ohio

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A scale tree (Late Carboniferous of Ohio)

mwilson January 8, 2012 1:14 am

We haven’t had a plant fossil in this blog for awhile. Lepidodendron Sternberg 1820, pictured above, is one of the most common fossils brought to me in Wooster by amateur collectors. It is abundant in the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) sandstones, … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Museums: Part 1 — The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

mwilson December 6, 2011 3:33 pm

Last week I had the marvelous opportunity to visit two very different museums with Wooster Geologists. This is the first of two posts with short vignettes of the memorable sights and sounds. The first museum was the Cleveland Museum of … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Silica Formation (Middle Devonian) in Northwestern Ohio

mwilson October 22, 2011 7:25 pm

PAULDING, OHIO–There’s nothing like the stirring rings of 50 geologic hammers in the morning. Today I was a guest of the North Coast Fossil Club and my friend Brian Bade in a quarry exposing the Middle Devonian limestones and shales. … Continue reading →

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Fossils in the Wild: Invertebrate Paleontology Field Trip

mwilson September 11, 2011 11:06 pm

CAESAR CREEK LAKE, OHIO–The 2011 Invertebrate Paleontology class had a productive field trip on a beautiful Ohio day. Thunderstorms roamed the state, but we saw them only when we were comfortably on the bus. We worked in the emergency spillway … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A trilobite hypostome (Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio)

mwilson August 21, 2011 1:44 am

We had a familiar trilobite last week, so this week we’ll look at a poorly-known part of a trilobite: the hypostome. Above is an incomplete forked, conterminant hypostome of the large trilobite Isotelus. (Isotelus, by the way, is the state … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A chain coral (Silurian of Ohio)

mwilson June 19, 2011 1:58 am

For some reason the Fossil of the Week I’ve had the most comments about is the Ordovician honeycomb coral from Indiana. It has an unexpected polygonal symmetry reflected in many other geological materials like desiccation cracks and columnar basalt. So … Continue reading →

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Wooster Tree Ring Lab Ready for Business

gwiles June 10, 2011 2:25 pm

Guest blogger Jon Theisen Beginning May 17th and running until June 10th, the College of Wooster Tree Ring Lab has been partnering with and funded by The Center for Entrepreneurship in an effort to demonstrate the viability of dendrochronological dating … Continue reading →

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A muddy but successful encounter with the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in southern Ohio

mwilson April 30, 2011 7:37 pm

JACKSON, OHIO — Usually the Sedimentology & Stratigraphy class from Wooster meets no one at this Carboniferous outcrop on US 35 in Jackson County. This morning, though, we arrived to find geology students from Wright State University (under Professor David … Continue reading →

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If it’s spring in Ohio, it’s time for fieldwork!

mwilson April 28, 2011 2:26 pm

WOOSTER, OHIO–My geology colleagues have already been braving the weather to get their students into the field after the long winter. I like to wait until the end of April when it’s all sunshine and flowers. This week the Sedimentology … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A woolly mammoth tooth (Late Pleistocene of Holmes County, Ohio)

mwilson March 27, 2011 1:30 am

Since we had a mastodon tooth as our last Fossil of the Week, paleontological symmetry demands we have a mammoth tooth this week. The fossil above also comes from the productive bogs of Holmes County a few miles south of … Continue reading →

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