In the morning I worked at Orton Geology Museum cataloging fossils from Precambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Pennsylvanian, Devonian, Mississippian and Permian time periods. Fossils are preserved organisms or traces of organisms that have solidified due to age and environmental conditions. To handle these thousand and million years old fossils is absolutely amazing, especially when the pattern on the exoskeleton of a cephalopod (of the mollusc class) is visible. Some of the specimen have been part of OSU since the 1800s.
During the afternoon I make my way over to USPRR to help out my submentor (inventing a new word), Julie Codispoti. Julie in serving as the official coordinator of the Rock Repository in the place of Anne, who is temporarily living in Japan. Currently she is braving a committee with her wit, GRE scores and hope to get her masters in geology. I feel like I learn a new field/profession every day, example: Anne is paleomagnetist. In short paleomagnetists study ancient magnetic fields through magnetic minerals (ie. magnetite) in rocks and sediments. Methods -and I am not going into that- are conducted on these rocks and sediments to determine past directions of the Earth's magnetic fields. All I am going to say is, my god! I never realized how complicated magnets and magnetism is.
The lift at USPRR stopped working, thankfully it was ground level and not raised 20 feet high.
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2 comments:
laine it sounds like your having a good time sounds like a really awesome experience , erik is awesome dude me and him get along real well hes helped me out alot , he says whats up by the way
have fun laine cant wait to see you at graduation lol
later
What kinds of fossils were you cataloging? For example, were they mostly the same kinds of things (let's say, clams) from all of those time periods? Or were they all different kinds of organisms?
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