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No rocks from the Paleogene or Neogene period are known from Wisconsin; however, abundant Quaternary deposits can be found as a result of the last Ice Age. The most recent glacial cycle, the Wisconsin Glaciation, began about 31,500 years ago and receded from the state by around 7,000 years ago. During this time the Lake Michigan Lobe and the ...
Weis Earth Science Museum (abbreviated as WESM), located at 1478 Midway Rd, on the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Fox Cities Campus in Menasha, Wisconsin, USA, was opened in 2002. It focuses on Wisconsin geology and its mining history.
The UW–Madison Geology Museum (UWGM) is a geology and paleontology museum housed in Weeks Hall, in the southwest part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The museum's main undertakings are exhibits, outreach to the public, and research.
Community members snap photos of the new Lake Ivanhoe historical marker on October 15, 2022, in Burlington. The marker commemorates what is considered to be Wisconsin’s first Black-owned resort ...
The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve is an affiliated area of the National Park System of the United States comprising nine sites in Wisconsin that preserve geological evidence of glaciation. To protect the scientific and scenic value of the landforms, the U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a cooperative reserve in 1964.
The skeleton, which is about two-thirds complete and missing its tusks, was reconstructed in 1915 by M. G. Mehl and G. M. Schwartz and is housed in the Geology Museum of the University of Wisconsin. It is estimated that the Boaz mastodon was eighteen feet long, stood nine and a quarter feet high, and weighed six to eight tons. [2] [3] [4]
The formation is located northeast of the junction of Wood Avenue and General Mitchell Boulevard, on the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center grounds. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It consists of the lower 35 feet (11 m) of a 70-foot (21 m) high bluff extending east–west for a distance of about 450 feet (140 m).
Van Hise joined the faculty of the university immediately after graduating, as an instructor in chemistry and metallurgy (1879–1883). He then proceeded through the academic ranks as an assistant professor of metallurgy (1886–1888), professor of mineralogy and petrography (1888–1892), professor of Archaean and applied geology (1890–1892), and professor of geology (after 1892).