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Thursday, 06 August 2015

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Team Utah 2015 

Wooster Geologists [2015-08-06 21:25:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

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Guest bloggers: Julia Franceschi and Mary Reinthal What do you get when you have zero cloud coverage, 90-degree heat, and a desert? Aside from the start of a bad joke, you get a snippet of the College of Wooster geology’s 2015 expedition to Black Rock desert Utah. It was here that some of the College’s

Iron Flows and Camera Blows 

Wooster Geologists [2014-07-21 06:31:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info

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Guest Bloggers:  Sarah McGrath (’17) and Chloe Wallace (’17), both members of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH — No longer rookie bloggers Chloe and Sarah here, coming at you from the sweet comfort of our couch in Utah. Before collecting pounds of oncolites and encountering countless kill sites, we were just two inexperienced field

Oncolites and Kill Sites 

Wooster Geologists [2014-07-21 06:27:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info

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Guest Bloggers:  Sarah McGrath (’17) and Chloe Wallace (’17), both members of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH –  Rookie bloggers, Sarah and Chloe, coming at you from beautiful Ephraim, Utah! We’ll admit early on that are blogging skills are not the most proficient, but we’re giving it a shot (mostly because we are being

Hot Springs and I.S. Frenzy 

Wooster Geologists [2014-07-18 05:13:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info

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Guest Blogger:  Kelli Baxstrom (’16), member of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH –  A week into Utah, and feelings are mixed between slight hysteria for those who continue to fall off the couch in the evening due to exhaustion and an ongoing sense of awe of the beautiful world that exists outside Ohio. Sunday was

Brain-melting Heat in the Sanpete Valley 

Wooster Geologists [2014-07-16 07:09:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info

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Guest Blogger:  Michael Williams (’16), member of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH –Team Utah 2014 is now approaching the one-week mark of being in the field. For the past four days we’ve been working on one of Dr. Judge’s pet projects: deformation bands and fluid flow in the Sixmile Canyon Formation. This Cretaceous sandstone

Wooster’s Team Utah completes its presentations at the 2013 GSA meeting in Denver 

Wooster Geologists [2013-10-29 13:28:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (24 visits) info

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DENVER, COLORADO–Tricia Hall (’14) above stands before her 2013 Geological Society of America poster: “Petrologic and kinematic analysis of deformation bands in the Late Cretaceous Sixmile Canyon Formation, central Utah“. She worked hard this summer with Dr. Shelley Judge pounding away at deformation bands to use them as keys to sorting through complex structural events.

Team Utah’s first presentation at GSA 2013 

Wooster Geologists [2013-10-29 01:32:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
DENVER, COLORADO–Michael Williams (who chose a particularly impressive shirt and tie today) and Dr. Shelley Judge presented a poster at the Geological Society of America meeting entitled: “Evidence for inflation and deflation in lavas flows west of Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah.” This was the first offering from this year’s

Sandstone Appreciation Day 

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-17 00:58:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info
Zion National Park, Utah – Team Utah took a break from the volcanic field to explore some of Utah’s (more famous) sedimentary rocks. We visited Zion, Utah’s first National

Serious Geologizing in Utah 

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-14 05:28:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
UTAH – Team Utah has been seriously geologizing in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field over the past two days. Here’s a photo-journal of the crew at work.

Team Utah Version 2.0 

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-12 04:44:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
UTAH – Field work has officially begun for Team Utah, Version 2.0. The team consists of three Wooster seniors (Kyle Burden ’14, Cam Matesich ’14, Candy Thornton, ’14) and two Wooster sophomores (Adam Silverstein ’16, Michael Williams ’16). Tricia Hall (’14) is a returning member who has graciously agreed to stay in Utah after her

A Visit to the Utah Core Research Center 

Wooster Geologists [2012-06-14 01:20:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – On Tuesday, Team Utah visited the Core Research Center at the Utah Geological Survey. The repository includes cores and cuttings from more than 4000 wells, on-site microscope facilities, and a friendly and knowledgeable staff. We suspect that the sedimentary xenoliths that Kevin has been finding represent Lake Bonneville sediments. Tom

Team Utah Visits Bryce Canyon 

Wooster Geologists [2012-06-10 07:01:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
BRYCE CANYON, UTAH – In recognition of National Get Outdoors Day, Team Utah visited Bryce Canyon National Park. The park is famous for its gorgeous hoodoos. Here are a few pictures from our
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