Greg Wiles

Geomorphology (Geology 300) has been taking advantage of the good weather this Fall traveling in the area. Above the full class stands on a point bar of the Apple Creek. Waves go out to Brian Merritt who […]

Discussing the subsurface flow in a sand and gravel Kame at Browns Lake Bog.

Class meets in Scovel 116 MWF, Lab will meet in various classrooms and labs.
Initially we will be visiting  local field sites in lab (this coming Monday).

Below are some scenes of last year’s class.
Surveying […]

Welcome to Environmental Geology (Geology 110) 

The Killbuck Valley in flood.
The Killbuck Valley in corn

The group at Fern Valley. Gaging Wilkin Run and measuring water levels in wells.

Leo examining the Ice Contact stratified drift of the terminal moraine that in part lies across Fern Valley. This deposit records […]

 
Senior IS day only the dedicated staff members made the trip to Browns Lake to record water levels and install a well.
 

Now that the snow pack measured and described at Wooster Memorial Park is gone do […]

Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, in the big […]

The semester is over – so one last post including the final report to Doug McGlumphy on the dates of his remarkable buildings….see the McGlumphy_report. We thanks Doug for access to his buildings that allowed u […]

Review session is at 8 pm in Scovel 116 on Sunday. Here are the key slides to go with the review sheet (also poster here with links). It has been fun and I think we did some good for moving climate science in Ohio […]

The Cedar Creek site report is now assembled. Take a look at it here and let me know if there are any changes you suggest or errors you find. This is the format for your project – GSA format take a good look […]

Two of the compilation diagrams for the Mastodon site are included below (yes they will be on the quiz):

1 – Photos of the units, stratigraphic column, C-14, LOI and Magnetics (write a caption for it).

2 – […]

As the weather cools – the Wooster Geology Climate Change class ventured out in the field one more time. For the remainder of the semester we will try to get some work done. Two sites were visited – the Cedar […]

This glacial erratic made is way down to Wayne County during the course of the 20 glacial cycle over the past 2 million years. Before that is was buried and exhumed in the earth’s crust to a depth of ov […]

The diagram above came up in the Emily and Sarah’s presentation. This is for recent climate change relevant to the warming world of today. What might this look like for glacial times, for longer timecales? […]

One of the big questions that remains with the Mastodon site is how does the marl in our cores link to the excavation. Clint Walker had a good suggestion to dig a ditch 2 meters down through the bog. Now we have a […]

A blog that you should really subscribe to and check in on occasionally is RealClimate.
This week’s entry is concerned with – How do Trees Change the Climate? This question will become more important to us as we […]

We spent a beautiful Fall morning at the Cedar Creek Mastodon site with Dr. Wilson, Dr. Brush (U. Ashland), Dr. Kardulias and other experts examining the sediments and mastodon remains. See Dr. Wilson’s post for […]

Above is the reconstructed temperatures from the Greenland Ice Core. Now that we have radiocarbon ages from our sediment core we can put it into the larger context of the Northern Hemisphere temperature history. […]

Cedar Creek Mastodon Site – Radiocarbon Analysis (courtesy of Beta Analytic Inc.)

 
Wood sample extracted by Emily, Sarah and Tom. Accelerator mass spectrometer dating of the sample yielded the age below.
What […]