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Dinosaur Digs Other Blake Edgar

Dinosaur Digs By Other Blake Edgar

Dinosaur Digs by Other Blake Edgar


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This 224-page title is a guide to the fossil remains of these perenially fascinating creatures in the USA and Canada. Ten essays present the science and history of palaeontology, as well as tips for rock hounds and descriptions of the countries' best dinosaur parks and fossil sites.

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Dinosaur Digs by Other Blake Edgar

This 224-page title is a guide to the fossil remains of these perenially fascinating creatures in the USA and Canada. Ten informative essays present the science and history of palaeontology, as well as tips for rock hounds and descriptions of the countries' best dinosaur parks and fossil sites. Practical tips sections tell you how to join a dinosaur dig and give listings of museums, paleontology organizations and specialist resources. The work is lavishly illustrated with more than 250 spectacular photographs as well as nine specially commissioned maps.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Wondrous Creatures. Science and Speculation: There Be Dragons; Bone Hunters; Modern Paleontology. Exploring a Vanished World: Hard Evidence ; What Is a Dinosaur?; Nature of the Beast; The Big Kill; The Collector's Code. Into the Field: Joining a Dinosaur Dig; Dinosaur Parks and Fossil Sites; Wasson Bluff, Nova Scotia; Dinosaur State Park, Connecticut; Dinosaur Alley, Maryland; Dinosaur Valley State Park, Texas; Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico; Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; Purgatoire River Trackway, Colorado ; Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado; Dry Mesa Quarry, Colorado; Grand Valley, Colorado; Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado; Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail, Utah; Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Utah; Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada; Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming; Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Wyoming; Red Gulch Trackway, Wyoming; Egg Mountain, Montana; John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon; Devil's Coulee, Alberta; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta; Eastend Fossil Research Station, Saskatchewan. Exploring Museums: Museum Guide; Peabody Museum of Natural History, Conn; American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.; Academy of Natural Sciences, Pennsylvania; National Museum of Natural History, D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pa; Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio; Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois; Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Texas; New Mexico Museum of Natural History, New Mexico; Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, New Mexico; Museum of Northern Arizona, Arizona; Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado; Dinosaur Valley Museum, Colorado; The Dinosaur Museum, Utah; Earth Science Museum, Utah; Utah Museum of Natural History, Utah; Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, S. Dakota; Museum of the Rockies, Montana; Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta; California Academy of Sciences, California; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California; George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, California. Maps: Wasson Bluff, Nova Scotia; Dinosaur State Park, Connecticut; Dinosaur Alley, Maryland; Dinosaur Valley State Park, Texas; Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico; Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; Purgatoire River Trackway, Colorado; Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado; Dry Mesa Quarry, Colorado; Rabbit Valley Trail Through Time, Colorado; Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado; Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail, Utah; Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Utah; Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada; Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming; Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Wyoming; Red Gulch Trackway, Wyoming; Egg Mountain, Montana; John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon; Devil's Coulee, Alberta; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta; Eastend Fossil Research Station, Saskatchewan. Resource Directory.

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CIN1563318350VG
9781563318351
1563318350
Dinosaur Digs by Other Blake Edgar
Used - Very Good
Paperback
APA Publications
19991029
224
N/A
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