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Tuesday, 05 August 2014

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Favosite turbinatus coral from the Onondoga Formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2014-08-05 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info

 Devonian; US
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Prior to finding the specimen below, Favosites turbinatus was a species that I'd found only in Givetian aged rocks. This specimen was found in the Edgecliff member of the Onondoga Formation south of Syracuse, NY. The fossil is somewhat cramped looking so let me walk you through the pictures.This is a view of the bottom of the coral. This is the side that would have been lying in the mud. Note that in this view the corrallites appear smooth but without an epitheca as though they were in contact [...]

Coenites? coral from the Onondoga formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2014-08-01 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info

 Devonian; US
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I found the plate shown below in a quarry south of Syracuse that exposes the Edgcliff member of the Onondoga formation (Devonian, Eifelian stage). It was the only piece I found with such densely packed corals. I'm not entirely sure on the ID but a review of - STRATIGRAPHY OF THE ONONDAGA LIMESTONE (DEVONIAN) IN CENTRAL NEW YORK By William A. Oliver, Jr (Bulletin of the Geological Society of America VOL. 66. PP. 621-662. JULY 1954). leads me to believe these could be Coenites sp.

Platystoma gastropod from the Onondoga formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2014-07-28 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info

 Devonian; GR,US
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I didn't find too many gastropod fossils in the quarry, south of Syracuse, NY that exposed the Onondoga formation, except for this specimen. It's been weathered quite a bit but still looks pretty good. It's a Platystoma sp. gastropod and was found in the Edgecliff member of the Onondoga formation (Devonian, Eifelian stage).The specimen above looks similar to some Platysoma sp. Gastropods that I have from the Haragan formation in Oklahoma (Devonian, Lockhovian stage).I looked through the paper [...]

Leptaena rhomboidalis and Levenea lenticularis brachiopods from the Onondoga formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2014-07-26 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info

 Devonian; US
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Two more brachiopods that I found in a quarry near Syracuse this past May are this Leptaena rhomboidalis.... ...and what I think is a Levenea lenticularisBoth specimens come from the Edgecliff member of the Onondoga Formation (Devonian, Eifelian stage) and were ID'ed using the paper "STRATIGRAPHY OF THE ONONDAGA LIMESTONE (DEVONIAN) IN CENTRAL NEW YORK By William A. Oliver, Jr (Bulletin of the Geological Society of America VOL. 66. PP. 621-662. JULY

Large Crinoid stems from the Onondoga Formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2014-07-22 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info

 Devonian; US
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This past May I visited an old quarry south of Syracuse, NY that exposed part of the Onondoga formation (middle Devonian, Eifelian stage). The floor of the quarry exposed part of a Biostrome (an area that surrounds a reef but is not the reef itself) that is contained within the Edgecliff member. One particular layer was chock full of large diameter, stoloniferous crinoid stems.Specimen #1 (reassembled)Specimen #2 (reassembled)In places the stems seemed to be the substrate upon which everything [...]

Limestones, basalts, the wine-dark sea and the brooding volcano 

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-16 21:51:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–Today we had our last field trip associated with the 2013 International Bryozoology Conference. We traveled to the east coast of Sicily at Castelluccio, which is south of Catania and north of Syracuse. The weather could not have been better. It was, as a commenter has said, “impossibly beautiful”. The view above is

A Sicilian rocky coast 

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-06 05:55:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info

 Quaternary
NOTO, SICILY, ITALY–Our last stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association field trip was on the southeastern coast of Sicily just north of Syracuse at Scala Greca. There are several very small bays here which have been used for fishing boats since very ancient times. The whote rock is the Calcari di Siracusa

Monday Musings: Keeping up with Japan, the lava of Syracuse and Hawaiian lava lakes 

Eruptions [2011-02-14 16:58:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
Onto some news … Japan: The Shinmoe-dake Crater at Kirishima continues to be noisy - producing another impressive explosion Monday morning. However, the order for people in the region closest to Kirishima to be prepared to evacuate was lifted as well. This evacuation order was for mudslides ...Read

New York state’s hidden secret: A subterranean impact crater 

AGU Meetings [2010-12-21 19:48:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
I’ve heard of stealth bombers and stealthy ninjas and even a super-sneaky magnitude 8 earthquake, but until today I hadn’t heard about stealth craters: large features, more than three kilometers across and more than 300 meters deep-- definitely big enough to be obvious, one would think. But not if it's buried. One such crater lurks 1.2 kilometers underground in New York’s Finger Lakes Region. Located near Syracuse and close to the Bear Swamp National Forest, the crater is completely [...]

Magnitude 5 Quebec quake 

Shaking Earth [2010-07-08 00:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
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I was out of town when this one hit near the Canada-U.S. border:From the USGS:The June 23, 2010 Val-des-Bois, Quebec earthquake occurred at 1:42 pm local (eastern) time 56 km (35 miles) north of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital city. The preliminary estimate of magnitude (M) is 5.0, at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). This earthquake occurred near the southern edge of the Western Quebec Seismic Zone. Earthquakes within this zone are mostly small. They tend to cluster in a wide area that is [...]

Celebrate Earth Day with the Museum of the Earth 

Notes from the Museum of the Earth [2010-04-20 15:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (20 visits) info
Earth Day ProgrammingThis Earth Day celebrate the planet with Museum of the Earth!Saturday, April 17Join us at Syracuse's Rosamond Gifford Zoo's Party for the Planet.Thursday, April 22 - NoonPRI's Trisha Smrecak will give a lecture "Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future" at TC3 in Dryden, NY.Thursday, April 22 - 6 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. lectureAn evening lecture at the Museum of the Earth entitled "The Revolution in Sustainability Education" by Peter Bardaglio, senior fellow at [...]
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