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Field Trip Photographs
Invertebrate
Paleontology Course
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The College of
Wooster
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Department
of Geology
Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2007
Trip to the Mississippian exposures in southeastern Wooster, Ohio
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(Led by Professor Mark
Wilson)
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| Palmer Shonk (left)and Colin
Mennett (right) climb up through the Logan Formation looking
for fossils. About a meter below Palmer's feet is the top
of the Cuyahoga Formation, which is mostly a dark shale.
The Logan here is primarily siltstone with some sandstones
and conglomerates. The orange horizon at Palmer's hands
contained most of the shelly fossils we found. |
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| Palmer Shonk at the most fossiliferous
horizon in this portion of the Logan Formation. |
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| Colin Mennett looking through
a thick siltstone section of the Logan Formation. The differing
colors here are due to various levels of iron oxidation.
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Phil Blecher, Rob McConnell,
Ali Drushal, Adam Samale, and Clarence Simmons climbing
to the top of the Logan exposures. |
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Elyssa Belding is standing
at the bottom contact of a thin conglomerate in the siltstones
of the Logan Formation. |
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| Michael Krivicich amidst
the siltstones of the Logan Formation. |
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| Heather Hunt sitting
on a thicker conglomerate portion of the Logan Formation.
This unit has thin layers of coal occasionally interbedded
with the quartz-rich gravels. |
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| John Sime and Jack
Boyle crossed the road and examined an older outcrop
of the Logan Formation. They are standing on an artificial
mix of rock fragments. |
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