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Jurassic Cryptic Marine Ecosystems
Note the curly worm tubes and borings made by another type of worm. There are also tiny little sponges in this view, and even tinier brachiopods. This is a "cryptic community", meaning it lived in a...
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Wooster Geologist in Texas
Halbouty Geosciences Building on the campus of Texas A&M University COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS–I arrived this afternoon in beautiful central Texas to give a talk at Texas A&M University on...
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A very bored Permian brachiopod
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS–I never get tired of that too-obvious joke. I found the above productid brachiopod on the last outcrop of our little Texas expedition. It has been drilled by barnacles, which...
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Wooster Geologist in Ohio!
CAESAR CREEK STATE PARK, OHIO–I’ve definitely extended my field season as far as possible. (And what a season it has been.) My last fieldwork at the end of this research leave was in Ohio, about...
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Wooster Geologists in Alabama!
Mark Wilson (Wooster), Caroline Sogot (University of Cambridge), Megan Innis (Wooster) and Paul Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) on our first evening in Alabama. This is our "before" photograph....
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Which came first?
NEW ALBANY, MISSISSIPPI — The Cretaceous oyster above was collected from the Coon Creek Beds of the Ripley Formation (Upper Cretaceous) near Blue Springs, Mississippi. The holes are borings called...
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The last of Scorpion Wash
MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL — The 2010 Wooster Geology Israel team finished its work today in the Upper Cretaceous rocks at our northern locality, Wadi Aqrav. We measured several dozen cobbles from the base...
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Wooster Geologist in The Netherlands
An outcrop of the Type Maastrichtian in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The square tunnels were dug in the Middle Ages for building stone. The rock is a limestone. MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS–This is the...
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A rainy day in the Mainz Basin
View of the vineyards near Wöllstein, Germany. OPPENHEIM, GERMANY–I want this termed Wilson’s Law: “The amount of mud encountered at an outcrop is inversely proportional to the quality of the fossils...
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Bored marbles, slate mines, and a castle in North Wales
Aberystwyth, Wales — Let’s start with the castle as my tour of Wales with Tim and Caroline Palmer continues. Above is the storied Harlech Castle in North Wales. It was built of sandstone blocks by...
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