Pliocene marls white as snow in southern Sicily
SCIACCA, SICILY, ITALY–Our last stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip was to a massive outcrop of foraminiferan-rich marls known as the Trubi. A view...
View ArticleA surprising bit of Permian in central Sicily
MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY–This morning the pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association headed into the mountains of central Sicily. The roads were steep and windy, as one would...
View ArticleThe ancient Greek city of Selinunte
MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY–During the afternoon the field party of the International Bryozoology Association drove south out of the Sicilian mountains back to the southern coast to visit the ruins of an...
View ArticleA Phoenician island city and its lagoon
MILAZZO, SICILY, ITALY–The pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association has now almost completely circled Sicily. We are in the far northeastern corner of the island on a...
View ArticleReturn to the Pliocene at Altavilla Milicia, Sicily
Our last stop of the day on the IBA field trip was to a classic fossil locality on the north coast of Sicily about an hour east of Palermo. These are fine sandstones and marls preserving a diverse...
View ArticleSediments, fossils and vistas at the Capo Milazzo Peninsula, Sicily
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–This was the last day of our International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip through Sicily. We had an excellent time and covered an extraordinary amount of...
View ArticleA visit to ancient Syracuse
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–One of the treats of many small scientific meetings, like the International Bryozoology Association conference I am attending now, is that we can have a variety of short field...
View ArticleLimestones, basalts, the wine-dark sea and the brooding volcano
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–Today we had our last field trip associated with the 2013 International Bryozoology Conference. We traveled to the east coast of Sicily at Castelluccio, which is south of Catania...
View ArticleReturn to Mount Etna
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–The very last field trip stop — and final event — of the International Bryozoology Association Conference was a trip to the south side of Mount Etna. We drove to a spot that had...
View ArticleThe 16th Conference of the International Bryozoology Association
CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–The IBA meeting has now ended and, as this is posted, I should be winging my way home across the Atlantic. It was a fantastic experience. This is a unique organization, of which...
View ArticleWooster’s Fossils of the Week: A foraminiferal ooze from the Pleistocene of...
On a recent field trip to Sicily, our paleontological party visited outcrops at Cala Sant’Antonino on the western side of the Milazzo Peninsula in the northwestern part of the island. We saw there an...
View ArticleWooster’s Fossils of the Week: An ancient predator/prey system from the Lower...
The above fossils were collected from a Lower Pleistocene silty marl exposed near the Megara archaeological site east of Augusta, Sicily, Italy. I was on that epic International Bryozoology Association...
View ArticleWooster’s Fossils of the Week: Bits of a bamboo coral from the Lower...
Earlier this summer I participated on a pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association throughout Sicily. We had an excellent time and saw many wondrous things. At one stop on...
View ArticleWooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Pleistocene octocoral holdfast from Sicily
My Italian colleague Agostina Vertino collected this beautiful specimen from the Pleistocene of Sicily and brought it to Wooster when she visited five years ago. It is the attaching base (holdfast) of...
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