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Author: Roland A. Gangloff Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253007186 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist would unknowingly find the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs under the Aurora immerses readers in the challenges, stark beauty, and hard-earned rewards of conducting paleontological field work in the Arctic. Roland A. Gangloff recounts the significant discoveries of field and museum research on Arctic dinosaurs, most notably of the last 25 years when the remarkable record of dinosaurs from Alaska was compiled. This research has changed the way we think about dinosaurs and their world. Examining long-standing controversies, such as the end-Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and whether dinosaurs were residents or just seasonal visitors to polar latitudes, Gangloff takes readers on a delightful and instructive journey into the world of paleontology as it is conducted in the land under the aurora.
Author: Roland A. Gangloff Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253007186 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist would unknowingly find the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs under the Aurora immerses readers in the challenges, stark beauty, and hard-earned rewards of conducting paleontological field work in the Arctic. Roland A. Gangloff recounts the significant discoveries of field and museum research on Arctic dinosaurs, most notably of the last 25 years when the remarkable record of dinosaurs from Alaska was compiled. This research has changed the way we think about dinosaurs and their world. Examining long-standing controversies, such as the end-Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and whether dinosaurs were residents or just seasonal visitors to polar latitudes, Gangloff takes readers on a delightful and instructive journey into the world of paleontology as it is conducted in the land under the aurora.
Author: C. Jameson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781717063540 Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus are just some of the dinosaurs included in AURORA DIGS DINOSAURS. This unique coloring book is loaded with dinosaur facts and dinosaur jokes. Every page has fun images to color along with "Aurora's Fun Facts" or silly jokes! Facts and jokes are age appropriate for young children but use scientific words at their level. See the back cover for a list of dinosaur words used in the coloring book. Children will laugh a lot, learn a little and see their name featured throughout the book. Note that this book is available with many other popular names and a version without a featured name for any child (WE DIG DINOSAURS COLORING BOOK LOADED WITH FUN FACTS & JOKES).
Author: Anthony R. Fiorillo Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 135166932X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 360
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Anthony Fiorillo has been exploring the Arctic since 1998. For him, like many others, the Arctic holds the romance of uncharted territory, extreme conditions, and the inevitable epic challenges that arise. For Fiorillo, however, the Arctic also holds the secrets of the history of life on Earth, and its fossils bring him back field season after field season in pursuit of improving human understanding of ancient history. His studies of the rocks and fossils of the Arctic shed light on a world that once was, and provide insight into what might be.
Author: John Pickrell Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231543395 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 359
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“A tour de force…highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago.”—Sydney Morning Herald From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. “This history of the discovery of some of the most outlandish creatures that ever lived, and the excitement of paleontological research, will be sure to both entertain and instruct.”—Spencer Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Sixth Edition “Fascinating.... Readers learn of beautiful opalised dinosaur bones from Australia and a crested dinosaur found approximately 13,000 feet up Antarctica's Mt. Kirkpatrick, demonstrating that dinosaurs were widely distributed across the globe.”—Publishers Weekly
Author: B.P. Kear Publisher: Geological Society of London ISBN: 1862397481 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 333
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Scandinavia and its Arctic territories of Svalbard and Greenland represent geographical regions with a long history of Mesozoic palaeontology. However the last few decades have witnessed a surge of new discoveries, especially from the famous Triassic and Late Jurassic Lagerstätten of East Greenland and Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, together with the Late Cretaceous strata of southern Sweden and UNESCO World Heritage locality at Stevns Klint in Denmark; the latter recording one of the most complete terminal Mesozoic rock successions known globally. Collectively, these deposits encompass the spectrum of Mesozoic biotic evolution from the explosive radiation of marine faunas after the Permian-Triassic extinction and seminal specialization of amniotes for life in the sea, to the Late Triassic–Jurassic domination of the land by dinosaurs and Cretaceous development of modern terrestrial floras and marine ecosystems. This volume authored by leading experts in the field encapsulates key aspects of the latest research, and will provide a benchmark reference for future investigations into the Scandinavian Mesozoic world.
Author: Bonnye Matthews Publisher: ISBN: 9781954896031 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Illustrated upper-middle-grade fiction of year in the life of Arctic dinosaurs: migration, predators, earthquakes, river breakups, aurora borealis, snow, and starvation. The story is nested in non-fiction. Factual information is provided.
Author: Stephen Czerkas Publisher: ISBN: 9781932075021 Category : Dinosaurs in motion pictures Languages : en Pages : 93
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History of how Dinosaurs have Been Portrayed in Motion Pictures From The Silent era To Present Day. The Focus is on The Special effects Techniques used To Create The Dinosaurs And on The Paleontological Information used For The Film's Content.
Author: Syun-Ichi Akasofu Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 118
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An overview of the aurora borealis that covers the science behind it, historical reactions to it and research of it, and aspects of the phenomenon yet to be understood, and provides illustrations--including color photos and nineteenth-century engravings--and a list of further resources.
Author: Thomas H. Rich Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253047420 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who have played crucial roles in their discovery, describe how they and others collected the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm and how painstaking laboratory work and analyses continue to unlock the secrets of the polar dinosaurs. This scientific adventure makes for a fascinating story: it begins with one destination in mind and ends at another, arrived at by a most roundabout route, down byways and back from dead ends. Dinosaurs of Darkness is a personal, absorbing account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard and rewarding it is to mine the knowledge of this remarkable life of the past. The award-winning first edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest discoveries and interpretations, along with over 100 new photographs and charts, many in color.
Author: Michael J. Ryan Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253353580 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 658
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Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.
Author: Roland A. Gangloff
Author: Roland A. Gangloff
Author: C. Jameson
Author: Anthony R. Fiorillo
Author: John Pickrell
Author: B.P. Kear
Author: Bonnye Matthews
Author: Stephen Czerkas
Author: Syun-Ichi Akasofu
Author: Thomas H. Rich
Author: Michael J. Ryan