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Rittman Lake and the Overrunning Sequence
The group posing in front of some generations of draglines at the Zollinger Pit in Rittman. Many thanks to the operators for giving us permission to spend a spectacular afternoon at the site. Figure 1. Map showing some the the … Continue reading
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A Delta in the Little Killbuck Valley (Wooster Memorial Park)
The Geomorphology (GEOM24) class posing along the Little Killbuck River Valley. Looming in the background is the delta built into Lake Killbuck during immediate post-glacial times about 14,000 years ago. The sediments are so well exposed, in part, due to … Continue reading
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Geomorphology (GEOM24) – Soils on the Golf Course
The group gearing up to describe and map soils in the old growth stand just east of the College Golf Course. Guest bloggers: Lynnsey, Cate, Evie, Chanel, Lilly and Amanda Figure 1. Diagram showing the formation of the glacial … Continue reading
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Geomorphology (GEM24) Part 3 – Browns Lake for Soils
Guest bloggers: Grace, Hayden, Vince and Ethan The group working with soils at Browns Lake Bog Preserve. The goal was the dig three soils pits and examine the soil catena from the top of a kame to the base controlling … Continue reading
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Geomorphology (GEOM24) – Spangler Gorge (Part 1)
Guest bloggers: Damien, Rheo, Elliot and Arron: On September 9th the 2024 Fall Geomorphology Class took a trip to Spangler Gorge in Wooster Memorial Park. Here the students studied how the valley formed around Rathburn Run as well as the … Continue reading
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Sum of Reciprocals
The sum of the reciprocals of the natural numbers diverges, but slowly, like the logarithm of the number of terms. The sum of the reciprocals of the prime numbers also diverges, but even more slowly, like the logarithm of the … Continue reading
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There and Back Again
I awoke yesterday at dawn in a log cabin in Vermont. Fortunately, the wifi was good. Each successive test of the SpaceX Superheavy Starship has been a significant improvement over the previous one, and test five was no exception, with … Continue reading
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Carbonate hardgrounds at Wooster
On the second floor of Wooster’s Scovel Hall, in a room behind the main teaching laboratory, are six cabinets completely full of labelled rocks and fossils (see below). There is even an additional set of specimens too large for the … Continue reading
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A Wooster Geologist visits Fort Meigs, Ohio
Today my wife Gloria and I visited the reconstructed Fort Meigs in the northwestern corner of Ohio in Perrysburg, just south of Toledo. It was a beautiful day and we practically had the place to ourselves. It was our first … Continue reading
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Rey’s Theme
Yesterday, as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis became the youngest person to walk in space. Today, on a space-qualified violin, she performed Rey’s Theme, composed by John Williams as the musical leitmotif for Rey, the … Continue reading
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