Field Trip Photographs
Sedimentology & Stratigraphy Course
The College of Wooster
Department of Geology
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Trip to the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Boundary in Jackson County, Ohio
(Led by Professor Mark Wilson)
 
 

This is our outcrop about three miles north of Jackson in Jackson County, Ohio. These rocks are exposed by the Apple City Motorcycle Club headquarters just off US 35. We can see here siltstones of the Mississippian topped by a very mixed assemblage of Pennsylvanian sediments. Note that the dark skies did not actually rain on us!
 
 

My colleague Dr. Hilary Sanders balancing on the steep slope of Pennsylvanian shales and sideritic siltstones.
 
 

John Sime and Alex Trutko contemplate the plant fossils found in the Pennsylvanian shales.
 
 
Denise Hardman and Eva Lyon work on their measured stratigraphic column.
 
 
Andrew Milligan works his way down the conglomerate, which we interpreted as a braided stream deposit.
 
 

José Hasemann and Ann Steward show how a Jacob's Staff is used.
 
 
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