Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid-rich Lower Carboniferous siderite concretion (part I)

Last year Wooster emeritus geology professor Sam Root generously donated the above pictured siderite concretion to our paleontology collections. He had received it from a friend who didn’t know where it came from originally so we have no location. The … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Glyptodon carapace fragment from the Pleistocene

This is a tiny bit of a large and fascinating Pleistocene animal from Central and South America. It is Glyptodon, an impressively large mammal with bony armor much like its cousin the armadillo. The above fossil is a fragment of … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Rugose corals from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio

College of Wooster student Willy Nelson spotted and collected up this beautiful Liberty Formation slab on our 2013 Invertebrate Paleontology course field trip to the Upper Ordovician of the Caesar Creek area in southern Ohio. There are many exquisite fossils … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A trepostome bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky

First, what U.S. state does this delicious little bryozoan resemble? It’s so close I can even pick out Green Bay. This is Heterotrypa frondosa (d’Orbigny, 1850), a trepostome bryozoan from the Corryville Formation (Upper Ordovician) in Covington, Kentucky. I collected … Continue reading
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Wooster Geologists Present at AGU 2013

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today was a big day for Wooster Geologists Alex Hiatt (’14) and Mary Reinthal (’16). They presented their work on subglacial volcanic ridges, along with Ellie Was (’14, Dickinson College). You may remember these fantastic undergraduate … Continue reading
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Let’s Try to Re-Connect

Today while I was discussing job interviews with some friends and trying to multitask, I caught wind of a side conversation about how having a car on campus made my friend feel like a “real person.”  Her words, not mine.  … Continue reading
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Oh The Holidays

Ahh the holidays are coming and it doesn’t matter if you’re five years old, a difficult eighteen year old or a college student miles away from home, the holidays bring unique memories for everyone.   For some they bring back warm, … Continue reading
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A Twist on our Final Exam: The GIS Poster Symposium

WOOSTER, OH — GEOL 220 (Introduction to GIS) had their final exam this morning, but it was not a typical final exam atmosphere.  It was a very social event, with much mingling and chatter (in between bites of donut holes … Continue reading
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Highlights from the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union is once again taking place the festive city of San Francisco. Mild weather and sunny skies have greeted the 22,000+ geoscientists who have traveled from across the globe … Continue reading
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Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Echinoid fragments from the Upper Carboniferous of southern Nevada

  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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