G e o l o g y D e p a r t m e n t

N e w s l e t t e r

Group photo taken at the Fall 2016 Geology Bonding Night held at Pizza Hut.

Greetings! It has been a year of change in the Geology Department. Our long-time chairperson and friend to all Dr. Peter

Calengas retired on June 30th. Soon after, we learned that our wonderful secretary Diane Edwards was retiring. Then, at the

end of November, our Museum Curator and all-around do everything person Bob Johnson was let go by WIU as part of their

budget cutting efforts instituted last academic year. Despite all of the personnel changes, the Geology program has sol-

diered on. Our Acting Chair of Geology, Dr. Samuel Thompson, is very supportive of all of the activities that we have done

over the years (ex. field trips, Bonding Night, Holiday Party, undergraduate research) so we continue to provide our Geology

majors the same undergraduate experience that students received during better economic times for the State of Illinois. We

post photos from many of our events on our Facebook page so please check it out if you haven’t already done so.

Of course, we can’t thank our alumni enough for their generous financial support. Without the funds we receive from alumni

donations we would not be able to offer our students scholarships and financial support for undergraduate research projects.

We also appreciate the willingness of many of our alumni to visit the department and speak to our current Geology students.

Seeing the variety of jobs that our alumni have taken helps assure our students that they can have a successful and fulfilling

career after graduation from our program. We are always looking for alumni to return to the department as guest speakers

or just to drop by and say hello.

I hope you enjoy reading the newsletter. Please keep in touch, I love to hear from our alumni.

Steve Bennett

Alumni Newsletter Editor

Kari Beckum, the winner of our annual raffle during Bonding Night, is awarded her rock

hammer by Dr. Hegna in royal fashion.

Reed Duyvejonck, Keven VanMatre, and Adam VanMatre were the winners of the

annual Holiday Party game.

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L e s l i e M e l i m

2016 was a quiet teaching year for me. Teaching included my usual

Oceanography, both semesters, a section of Geology 110 for honors

students in Spring semester, and Seds in Fall semester (to a more normal

six students after the huge class last year). Summer was more interesting

with the largest field camp class I’ve ever taught: 22 students. Since there

were so many students, Dr. Tom Hegna came out as well to assist. A good

time was had by all, but I worked harder than ever—that is a lot of students!

We also made sure that both Tom and I learned the second part of field

camp, that taught by Dr. Kyle Mayborn, just in case one of us needs to teach

it in the future (back-ups are always good!).

If classes were quiet, undergraduate research was anything but quiet! I had

a total of five students working with me in 2016. Three of them (Justin

Christensen, Andrew Kerin, and Nick Liming) worked on different aspects of

cave pearls from the Quincy underground limestone mine. Nick and Justin

presented a paper at the North-Central GSA Meeting in Urbana-Champaign in April and I presented a slightly larger

version at the national GSA meeting in Denver. We are really getting close to completing that project—look for a

publication soon! In addition, Angela Elzer sacrificed some spare time in field camp to measure the carbonate portion of

the Deadwood Formation in Little Elk Creek canyon (right where field camp starts on the first map). Then, in the fall, she

worked up the petrology and figured out the depositional environment. Finally, Allison Hartman started an Honors Thesis

working on pool fingers from Blauhöhle Cave, Germany. We went out to Albuquerque twice to use the SEM at the

University of New Mexico and now she has to write up the results.

On the personal front, I managed two trips out to Seattle to visit family. If you ever get the chance, the Washington coast

is just about the prettiest place on the planet (or least high on the list!). I also continued my woodworking, this year

completely replacing the front porch on Kyle Mayborn’s house—a project that just kept going and going and going! Mari

Mayborn did all the design, and I built it. Six months after starting, I have to say the final result came out rather nice! I

also got in lots of horseback riding (no falling off this year!) and spent way too much time taking cute pictures of my two

new Maine Coon cats.

Undergraduate Research Completed:

Christensen, Justin, 2016, Stable Isotopes of Cave Pearls.

Elzer, Angela, 2016, Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician Storm-Influenced Carbonate and Clastic Ramp: Deadwood

Formation.

Kerin, Andrew, 2016, Evaluating Climate Controls on Cave Pearl Growth.

Liming, Nick, 2016, Recrystallization of Cave Pearls from Underground Limestone Mine, Quincy, Illinois.

Presentations:

Melim, L.A., Liming, N., Christensen, J., 2016, Evidence for extremely rapid and varied styles of recrystallization in

modern cave pearls from an underground limestone mine, Quincy, Illinois, Geological Society of America

Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-282724.

Liming, N., Christensen, J. and Melim, L., 2016, Recrystallization of Cave Pearls from Underground Limestone

Mine, Quincy, Illinois, North-Central GSA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48,

No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NC-275322, Presented April 19, 2016 by N. Liming and J. Christensen.

Publications:

Melim, L.A. and Hampson, G.J., 2016, Guide for figure preparation, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 86, p.

1308-1309.

Melim, L.A., Northup, D.E., Boston, P.J., and Spilde, M.N., 2016, Preservation of fossil microbes and biofilm in cave

pool carbonates and comparison to other microbial carbonate environments, Palaios, v. 31, p. 177-189.

Horseback riding with some of the field camp students in South Dakota

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Thankfully, 2016 was a calmer year than 2015. I again took the Paleontology students

on a trip to Iowa City to see the paleontology collections at the University of Iowa, the

MAPS fossil show, and the Devonian Fossil Gorge. Shortly after that, I attended the

North Central meeting of the Geological Society of America in Champaign, IL. I chaired

a session there, gave a presentation, and brought several students who presented their

research.

During the summer, I helped Leslie Melim teach the first four weeks of Field Camp in

the Black Hills of South Dakota. When I was a student at the University of Iowa, we

mapped in some of the same areas, so it was neat to see them again. This year we had

our biggest group of students for Field Camp ever—despite that, they were a great group

to have out in the field! Aside from that trip, I did not have any other major trips during

the summer, so I got to spend the rest of the summer in Macomb with my family,

writing up research papers. One of the projects that I finished up this summer has been

published and is receiving some press attention: http://www.earthtouchnews.com/

discoveries/fossils/wow-fossilised-trilobite-eggs. Also during the summer, the research

paper resulting from former research student Hunter Starr’s undergraduate research

project was published.

In the fall, my teaching load changed slightly. I will no longer be co-teaching the

Integrated Science I class for our teacher education students. Instead, this fall, I taught

a geology field trip class that I called ‘Ordovician North, Ordovician South’ where we

traced the expression of the Ordovician Maquoketa Formation from northern Iowa to Missouri, and looked at related

formations along the way. A good time was had by all. Also in the fall, I attended the National Geological Society of

America meeting in Denver, CO. There, I gave a talk entitled “The amber window and the amphipod fossil record.”

Over winter break, I submitted round 3 of our Scanning Electron Microscope grant—with positive reviews last year, we’re

again hoping this is the year it will be funded. We have a number of faculty from WIU involved in the grant, and if funded,

it will significantly enrich our classes and student research projects to have a piece of equipment like that on campus for

easy access.

Student projects.

•Adam Van Matre worked on the brachiopods from the Cambrian-aged Weeks Formation in Utah

•Kevin Van Matre processed micro-CT scans of an enigmatic arthropod called Schramixerxes geremi, continuing the

work begun by previous students

•Daniel Hillenberg has been doing some modern clam shrimp appendage dissections to better understand their fossils.

Publications

Hegna, T.A., M.J. Martin & S.A.F. Darroch. 2017. Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York

(Lorraine Group): Implications for trilobite reproductive biology. Geology. 45(3): 199-202.

Hegna, T.A. & R.E. Johnson. 2016. Preparation of Fossil and Osteological 3D-Printable Models from Freely Available CT-

Scan Movies. Journal of Paleontological Techniques. 16: 1-10.

Hegna, T.A., S.T. Ahyong, & G.D.F. Wilson. 2016. Squilloides Tchindonova & Tchesunov, 1993 is not an isopod—it’s not

even Squilloides. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36(6): 860-862.

Hegna, T.A. & A.A. Kotov. 2016. An ephippium of the genus Ceriodaphnia Dana, 1853 (Cladocera: Anomopoda:

Daphniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica. 19.3.40A: 1-9.

Starr, H.*, T.A. Hegna, & M.A.S. McMenamin. 2016. Epilogue to the tale of the Triassic Amphipod: Rosagammarus is a

decapod tail (Luning Formation, Nevada). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36(4): 525-529.

To m H e g n a

Field camp selfie

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My adventure in the Dean’s Office as an Interim

Associate Dean has continued into this year. I

experienced a steep learning curve during a very

difficult time for the University. Overall, the work has

been challenging and interesting, but I am thankful that

my day still starts in the Geology Department where I

continued to teach Mineralogy and Igneous/

Metamorphic Petrology. Last spring for Petrology we

went to southeast Missouri for our annual field trip,

which included a mapping exercise along the St Francis

River near the Silver Mines Campground.

On the research front, I managed to keep working with

undergraduate students on the Mineral Lake Intrusion.

Two students and I took a series of closely spaced samples

along the contact that Luke Smith and I studied a year ago.

We are attempting to make a detailed map of a marginal reversal located at the base of the intrusion and then to use

the map and geochemical data to determine the origin of the reversal.

On a personal note, Mari and I visited Yosemite this past January during our annual trip to see family in California. I have

visited Yosemite a few times in the past, but this was my first visit during the winter. It was fun to hike with Mari, to take

an early morning run along the trail up to Yosemite Falls and to stand at the base of El Capitan at the start of the famous

“Nose” climbing route. I also enjoyed walking through “Camp 4”, the birthplace of modern rock climbing, Black Diamond

climbing gear, and the Patagonia clothing company.

Thanks to everyone who has kept in contact. I really enjoy seeing you progress in your careers and appreciate when you

notify us of entry level positions for our current graduates. Please send me an invitation on LinkedIn, if we are not

already connected.

All the best,

Dr. Mayborn

Ky l e M ay b o r n

Drew Laviada-Garmon at Washington University Microprobe Facility. Thank you to contributors to

the Geology Foundation!

We had beautiful weather for our annual spring picnic, which we once again held at WIU’s Horn Lodge. Even the canine attending the event seemed to have a good time!

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I cannot believe that I must report that I did nothing in the way of geology trips or park

visits this past year. What a sad existence. Luckily for you, I am going to report on my

four cats. Report card A+. Pets bring joy to life as well as hairballs on your bed, carpet,

couch or wherever. Cats are great collectors of mice, live or dead, doesn’t matter. Pets

are also very good at sharing, especially their fur. They will happily coat everything you

own in fur, free of charge. Very kind of them. (Note to self, no white-furred pets ever

again.)

Secondarily, my oldest son is now attending Illinois State University studying diligently his

strategies on how to win Warhammer 40K tabletop games. When he is not otherwise

occupied playing Warhammer 40K, D&D, Pathfinder, Magic the Gathering or any other

myriad of games, he is studying Physics and Japanese. He is quite enjoying a parent-free

life.

Thirdly, my youngest son is a junior in high school and can be found ensconced in his

room playing his Xbox or PS4 almost anytime of the day or night. Much to his detriment,

he trained one of the cats to take over the controller when he has to make a pit stop for

more munchies. Cheerio Puff (a great ball of white fluff) changed his user tag to “My Cat is

WAY Better than your Mangy Dog”. Needless to say, next time he played Call of Duty on-

line, the dog owners kept taking him out until he figured out what was going on and fixed

his user tag. He now carefully monitors the cat’s use of his head set and controls, or so he

thinks. Little does he know the kind of mischief she gets into when he is away at school. She has become adept at plying

the controller with all four of her little paws at once and has quite a following on YouTube.

My life is not as fascinating as a cat’s. They have it easy. Eat, sleep, barf, eat some more. What more could you ask for?

Hope you all have a good year. Geology rocks! (Pun intended.)

S a r a B e n n e t t

Cheerio Puff with her game-face on

S a m u e l T h o m p s o n

I am extending my sincere greetings to the friends and alumni of the Department

of Geology. I am chair of the Department of Geography and interim chair of the

Department of Geology. Why am I taking on two chairships? Well, with Dr. Pete

Calengas’ retirement in June 2016, a decision was made not to replace him. The

department was left without a chair, and I was asked to serve as the interim chair

of Geology, in addition to my other chair duties. I accepted the challenge because

the Geology faculty are my neighbors in Tillman Hall, and I want to help out in

times of unusual budgetary circumstances. The Geology faculty and students

have been supportive, and I look forward to completing a successful academic

year in the department. No one knows what changes may occur next year, but

right now I am serving as the interim chair through June 30, 2017.

As of January 2017, we are making do without the service of Bob Johnson. He

was laid off effective December 31, 2016. Fortunately, Dr. Thomas Hegna has

stepped in as director and curator of the Geology Museum. Now the museum

door is open on a daily basis.

I want to thank you for your donations to the department. I have seen at first-hand how your donations are supporting

academic programs and other important activities in the department. The programs and activities could not have been

possible without the funds in the department’s foundation account. Your generosity is highly commended. Thank you for all

the good things you do for the department.

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C e r e s e Wr i g h t

My name is Cerese Wright, and I enjoy rock wall climbing, deep sea diving

and running marathons. Can you believe it? Actually… I don’t do any of

that; I just needed an attention grabber. Let me introduce myself as the

new Office Support Specialist for the Geography and Geology Dept. I am

amazed how interesting these departments are. From the fascinating

Geology museum, to Geography, to the GIS Center -- there is always

something going on. I am happy to be a member of the team and get to

work with the very talented faculty members we have here.

My name is pronounced (sir-reese). There are many different spellings.

The dictionary describes it as a deep to vivid reddish pink color (spelled

cerise). I was fascinated to also learn from a former WIU faculty member,

Tom Van Heuklon, that there is an asteroid named Ceres. It is the largest

object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Its diameter is approximately 945 kilometers, making it the largest of the

minor planets within the orbit of Neptune.

I enjoyed meeting & talking to students of the Geology Club at the Holiday party in

December. There was lots of food, an awesome game, and some interesting

conversation. A great time was had by all at the Old Bailey House. I’m now looking

forward to the spring picnic that I have heard so much about.

On a personal note, my husband Tom and I spent most of 2016 helping our

daughter, Melissa and her fiancée, K.C., get ready for their August 2016 wedding.

Our other daughters Melanie, Marlena & Meghann all took part in it. It was held in

East Peoria with the reception at the Stoney Creek Inn located on the scenic banks

of the Illinois River. If you have never been to that Lodge, I think it would really

appeal to you if you like the outdoors. Each room was decorated in a different theme

such as: moose room, fishing room,

bear room, etc. We especially

enjoyed the large fireplace in the lobby, too. It all made you feel like you

were deep in the woods. It was a beautiful occasion, and we made lots of

memories.

I look forward to hearing about all the Geology Department’s adventures for

2017. Stop in and say “hello”.

With her four daughters

Earth, Moon, and Ceres

Stoney Creek Inn

S t ev e B e n n e t t

The last year has brought a lot of changes. The Geology Department had some

retirements, my house is a bit emptier with my son Nathan off at college (Illinois

State University), and we had an addition put on our house over the summer.

However, all of my stress melts away when I’m teaching my courses to our

wonderful students. I continue to teach Introduction to the Earth, Geologic Field

Methods, Hydrogeology, and Energy and Earth Resources (online). For the Fall

2016 semester I also took over Dr. Calengas’ Environmental Geology online

course. Although I enjoyed teaching the course, I’ve passed the course on to

Tom Hegna so I won’t be so overloaded.

I’m still Treasurer for the Illinois Groundwater Association so, if any of you are

working in the environmental area, I would be happy to get you involved with

this organization. We are always looking for new members! We will be holding

our first joint meeting with the Illinois Association of Groundwater Professionals,

which is comprised primarily of well drillers and contractors. It should be an

interesting mix of people since our membership consists of academics,

graduate students, state workers, and environmental consultants.

After helping my son buy textbooks I can truly

commiserate with the sticker shock my students

experience!

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Retirement Dinner for Peter Calengas

The Geology Department treated our long-time chairperson to a dinner at Magnolia’s Restraurant in downtown Macomb.

Peter will be greatly missed by all of us. He was much more than just our chair, he was our colleague, our mentor, our

confidant, and most importantly, our friend. He leadership is directly responsible for the atmosphere of cooperation and

collegiality that exists in the Geology Department. We wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement.

Peter poses with the etched stone container that was presented by the

Geology faculty. Top row: Dave Hess, Jack Bailey, Bob Johnson Middle row: Leslie Melim, Megan Hegna, Tom Hegna, Sara Bennett, Steve Bennett Bottom row: Peter Calengas, Diane Edwards, Mari Mayborn, Kyle Mayborn

I continue to advise undergraduate research projects in the Spring Lake watershed. One student finished her project on

nutrient concentrations and another is continuing research he began last spring using the U.S. Army Corp or Engineers HEC-

HMS software to model hydrographs. My own research involves estimation of abandoned and/or undocumented wells in

McDonough County. Speaking of abandoned wells, last summer the local groundwater education group I chair (McDonough

County Groundwater Protection Education Committee) sealed an

abandoned well to educate people on their dangers. Although we have

done these in the past, this demonstration was new to us as it was not a

rural well but was in Macomb (south MacArthur Street) right next to the

homeowner’s back door. I felt particularly good about this well sealing

because the homeowners are both faculty at WIU. One of them approached

me after hearing a presentation I gave on protecting groundwater and I

told her we may be able to seal it for her. I mentioned the well to Steve

Wilson (Illinois State Water Survey) who developed and runs the online

Private Well Class (http://privatewellclass.org/) designed for homeowners

with wells. Long story short, he paid for the well sealing materials in return

for permission to videotape the process for use in his course. We had a

great turnout for the demonstration (~30 people) and had media coverage

in the newspaper, radio, and television. It was a good day! Happy well-sealers

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The Geology Club has kept busy the past year with 'Bad Geology Movie Nights', preparing rock and mineral bags, and a trip

to a local underground gypsum mine near Burlington, IA. We continue to sponsor and organize our annual Geology

Department Holiday Party and our Geology Department Spring Picnic. We also continue to sell WIU Geology water bottles

and pint glasses as fundraisers. This year we are considering making WIU Geology coffee mugs. Stay tuned for information

about these on the Department of Geology Facebook page. This spring we will once again drive over to the Iowa City area

for the MAPS Fossil Show and to visit the Devonian Fossil Gorge. Fun times!

S G E N ew s

G e o l o g y C l u b C o r n e r

SGE had a productive year. Our shirt sales went very well, we even had to place a second shirt order to meet the demand.

We spruced up the sidewalk timescale, but shortly afterward a broken water line and the ensuing sidewalk repair took out

the Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Triassic so we have more work to do this spring! The photos below are from our members

helping a local group of Webelos work towards their geology pin. Four SGE members and Dr. Bennett showed them our

museum, hall displays, and even the rock saws!

Dr. Mayborn applies the skills he honed in disc golf to a game of baggo (throwing a bag at a hole is actually a

lot like putting a disc) at the Spring Picnic

Group shot during the 2016 Holiday Party at the Old Bailey House

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Group Photo from 1997 Summer Geology Field Camp

Benjamin Grober

Continuing Student Alumni Award

Jonathan Bergan

Reed Duyvejonck

Allison Hartman

Andrew Kerin

Nick Liming

Adam Shade

Hunter Starr

Paul Wagner Memorial Scholarship

Angela Elzer

Benjamin Grober

Richard Schafer Field Camp Scholarship

Overlooking the monocline in Little Elk Creek Canyon

(left to right) Craig Brown, Becky Cerajewski, Jean Wood, Dan Bowen, Steve Gustafson, Paul Kybartas, Scott Garncarz, Eric Brumbaugh

Undergraduate Research Presentations

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Nick Liming and

Justin Christensen (not pictured)

Recrystallization of Cave Pearls from an

Underground Limestone Mine, Quincy, Illinois

Kevin Cavett

Outcrop Mapping in Argyle Lake State Park Using

Lidar Slope Mapping

The Geology Department once again had a good

showing at WIU’s annual Thomas E. Helm

Undergraduate Research Day. Eight students presented

their research.

The abstracts for their research are posted at http://

www.wiu.edu/centennial_honors_college/

research_day/2016abstracts.php

Drew Laviada-Garmon

Copper and Uranium in Petrified

Wood: An SEM-EDS Analysis

Grace Iftner

The Relationship of Nutrients and Dissolved

Oxygen Concentrations to Streamflow in a

Tributary to Spring Lake

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Undergraduate Research Presentations

Jacob Shaw

Clam Shrimp (Spinicaudata) from the Upper

Triassic Lake Ciniza Beds, New Mexico

Lukas Smith

Investigation of a Marginal Reversal at

the Base of the Mineral Lake

Intrusion, Northern Wisconsin

Rayleno Santana Oliveira

Preliminary Work on the Ontogenies of Trilobites

from the Weeks Formation (Cambrian; Utah)

Geology students describing the outcrop during the Fall 2016 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy field trip.

Roadside geology at it’s best!

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Dan Ahmann

Sharon Ahmann

Timothy Aten

Dennis Bomke

Rosemary Booth

Bill Branson

Craig Brown

John Carl

Chevron Humankind

Exxon-Mobil Foundation

Kurt Goebel

Terry Gordon

Donations

The Geology Department would like to thank the individuals and organizations listed below for their donations.

Your generous gifts have allowed us to provide scholarships, defray student costs for field trips, purchase scientific

equipment for use in undergraduate research, and cover registration fees and travel expenses of students

presenting research at geologic conferences. Again, thank you! (This list contains donations received since January,

2016)

Sandra Jankowski-Rose

Bill Jardine

Scott Johnson

Marvin Klusman

Mike Lane

Steven Larson

Leslie Melim

Judy Osmonson

Lee Osmonson

Kim Perez

Petersen Environmental LLC

Harry Petersen

Harley Ponsler

Bob Przybylo

Spencer Quam

Brian Rice

Clay Robinson

Bob Rozen

Steve Smith

Craig Stevens

Ginny Walsh

David Wronkiewicz

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2016 Graduates

William Buscemi

Justin Christensen

Angela Elzer

Matthew Hodge

Grace Iftner

Onica Layne

Nick Liming

Justin Longacre

Karl McBride

Corrin Peters

Adam Shade

Jacob Shaw

Lukas Smith

Hunter Starr

Spring 2016 Commencement

Fall 2016 Commencement

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The University of Illinois hosted the North-Central Geological Society of America meeting in Champaign last April so

four of our students took the opportunity to present their undergraduate research at this conference. Dr. Hegna

also presented results from the research he conducted with a group of our students in Utah.

Nick Liming, Justin Christensen (not pictured) & Leslie Melim

Recrystallization of Cave Pearls from an Underground Limestone

Mine, Quincy, Illinois

Lukas Smith & Kyle Mayborn (not pictured)

Investigation of a Marginal Reversal at the Base of the Mineral

Lake Intrusion, Northern Wisconsin

Kevin Cavett, Thomas Hegna (not pictured), & Chad Sperry (not

pictured)

Outcrop Mapping in Argyle Lake State Park Using Lidar Slope Mapping

Rayleno Santana Oliveira (not pictured), Thomas Hegna, & Rudy Lerosey-Aubril (not pictured)

Preliminary Work on the Ontogenies of Trilobites from the Weeks Formation (Cambrian; Utah)

Thomas Hegna, Justin Christensen, Nick Liming, Corrin Peters-

Kaffenberger, Hunter Starr, Andrew Turner, Robert Gaines,

Javier Ortega-Hernandez, Peter Van Roy, & Rudy Lerosey-Aubril

The Biota of the Cambrian Weeks Formation Lagerstätte, House

Range, Utah

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How many of these spots do you remember from your WIU Geology Field Camp? (answers on the next page)

Hopefully these photos from last summer’s field camp bring back fond memories of your own experiences.

A

B

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D

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(A) Yellowstone NP, Wyoming; (B) Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, S.D.; (C) West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone NP

(D) Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone NP; (E) Mammoth Lodge, Yellowstone NP; (F) Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, S.D.

(G) Stillwater Mine, Montana; (H) Badlands NP, S.D.; (I) Grand Teton NP, Wyoming

Website

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Geology major Quentin Rossmiller checks out an informational sign at Garden of the Gods State Park during

the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy field trip.

Dr. Hegna and Geology Club members in the U.S. Gypsum mine in Sperry, Iowa

during their Fall 2016 field trip.