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 does the timing of this transition … [Read more]
Dating Historical Structures and Reconstructing Climate
The Wooster Geology Climate Change class spent a beautiful fall day in Stony Creek, Ohio coring beams in three structures of historical significance. They will determine the cut dates (calendar dates when the timber for the houses were felled) for … [Read more]
Core Analysis – Back in the Lab
Picking seeds from a critical layer of mud - the seeds will be sent out for radiocarbon analysis. An important step was photographing the cores. Some of the smear slides required a petrologic scope to see the fine-grained … [Read more]
Different Views of the Bog
Dr. Anderson describing the moisture gradient measured from the bog to the crest of the kame where the old growth remnant oak forest resides. Our Climate Change class visited Browns Lake Bog with the Plant Communities and Ecosystems class … [Read more]
Coring at Cedar Creek
Tom Lowell and graduate student Stephanie Allard from Cincinnati and Jacqueline Rodriguez from the University of Illinois made the trip to Morrow County to core mud from a bog adjacent to the Cedar Creek Mastodon site. We will be working with the … [Read more]
Bogs in Ohio
Saturday is the Coring of the Cedar Creek Mastodon Site with Dr. Lowell (University of Cincinnati) and Jacklyn Rodriguez (University of Illinois). Tom Lowell truly is the Core Boss and is remarkable when it comes to extracting high quality mud from … [Read more]
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