Tag Archives: Triassic

Wooster’s Team Utah 2022 Fieldwork

Mark Wilson May 29, 2022 5:29 am

This is the index page for Wooster’s Team Utah 2022 expedition (May 20-29, 2022). The primary goal of this fieldwork was to provide data and samples for the Independent Study theses of Lucie Fiala (left) and Shipei (Vicky) Wang (right). … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologists Team Jurassic Utah dips down into the Triassic for its last field day

Mark Wilson May 28, 2022 5:28 am

Today the Wooster Geologists of Team Jurassic Utah visited Early Triassic rocks near Hurricane, Utah (N 37.041054°, W 113.273450°). These are rocks of the Virgin Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation. I wanted to show the students the abundant brachiopod … Continue reading →

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A Nazi hiding hole in Middle Triassic rocks (Będzin, Poland)

Mark Wilson June 20, 2014 4:27 pm

SOSNOWIEC, POLAND — On my last full day in Poland, Michał Zatoń and his family took me on a tour of the city they live in and where my hotel is located: Będzin. The history of this place is very long, … Continue reading →

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The Triassic limestones at Góra Świętej Anny, Poland

Mark Wilson June 18, 2014 2:27 pm

SOSNOWIEC, POLAND — My friends Michał Zatoń and Tomasz Borszcz took me on a very pleasant day trip to Góra Świętej Anny in southwestern Poland about an hour’s drive northwest from Sosnowiec. This is a place of considerable geological and … Continue reading →

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Field trip to the lesser known makhteshim at Har ‘Arif

Mark Wilson April 10, 2014 12:57 pm

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–We’ve talked a lot about makhteshim in this blog, with so much of our geological work located in Hamakhtesh Hagadol and Makhtesh Ramon. A makhtesh is essentially a breached anticline, usually with a single drainage running from it. … Continue reading →

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A Triassic afternoon in southern Israel

Mark Wilson April 8, 2014 10:36 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–This afternoon I walked through the spectacular Middle Triassic sections in Wadi Gevanim on the southern side of the Makhtesh Ramon structure. I will be on a fantastic trip this Thursday to a little-visited Triassic section farther south, … Continue reading →

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Adventures in the Triassic: Exploring the Gevanim Valley in Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel

Mark Wilson July 9, 2013 10:07 am

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–The second visit of the day for Wooster’s Team Israel 2013 was to the Gevanim Valley on the south side of the Makhtesh Ramon structure. This is a fascinating place where Cretaceous intrusions formed an uplifted dome exposing … Continue reading →

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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A terebratulid brachiopod from the Middle Triassic of southern Israel

Mark Wilson April 14, 2013 1:19 am

Sure, I could have picked a pristine shell from our collection, but I like the rugged character of this one. It is the terebratulid brachiopod Coenothyris oweni Feldman, 2002, from the lower Saharonim Formation (Middle Triassic) of Har Devanim, southern … Continue reading →

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Wooster Geologist in Virginia

Mark Wilson October 17, 2010 9:24 pm

MANASSAS, VIRGINIA–We’ve had several posts in this blog on the geology of battlefields (Leningrad, the Meuse-Argonne, Vicksburg, Bear River, Brice’s Crossroads). These places are almost always beautiful: peaceful green fields, quiet forests and grass-covered hills which belie the tragedies they … Continue reading →

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An igneous rock for Dr. Pollock

Mark Wilson June 13, 2010 8:56 am
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