Dinosaurs Of The Southwest

Author : Ronald Paul Ratkevich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs of the Southwest written by Ronald Paul Ratkevich and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Mesozoic era, the southwestern US was a tropical or semitropical region of seas and lowland swamps, inhabited by reptiles of all sizes and descriptions. This introduction to dinosaurs that once inhabited what are now the western states gives a background on paleontology, the dating of fossils, the variety in types, sizes and habits, and several theories about the reasons for the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Extensively illustrated with drawings by John C. McLoughlin, this book is a readable, accurate introduction valuable to tourists, young scientists, and other readers interested in this era of southwestern history.

Author : Ronald Paul Ratkevich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780826304056
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs of the Southwest written by Ronald Paul Ratkevich and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 1989 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Àngel Galobart
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253356229
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia written by Àngel Galobart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the general reader, this book is both a colorful introduction to the history and study of dinosaurs and an eye-opening survey of dinosaur discoveries in Spain. At the time of the dinosaurs, Iberia was in the process of becoming a peninsula of Continental Europe and looked very different than it does today. Now an area only slightly larger than Vermont and New Hampshire, Eastern Iberia contains one of the richest fossil records of Mesozoic vertebrates in Europe. This record spans an 80-million-year period that includes key moments in Earth's history, such as the extinction events at the Jurassic-Cretaceous and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundaries. Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia tells the story of Iberia's tumultuous geological history and presents a detailed synthesis of the region's dinosaur discoveries, with fact sheets and reconstructions of each species found there. This volume also describes the flora and fauna that made up the ancient ecosystems and explores the paleobiogeography of this dynamic region.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245614
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Legends of the First Americans written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.

Author : Nicholas C. Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn of the Dinosaurs written by Nicholas C. Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and art collaborate to recreate life on Earth more than 200 million years ago

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs in the Southwest Prairie Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839402432
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs written by Liz Miles and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. G. Lockley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231079273
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Tracks written by M. G. Lockley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fossil footprints, for both dinosaurs and other vertebrates, in the western United States, Dinosaur Tracks covers the fossil record from the Paleozoic through the Cenozoic era. A series of illustrations depict dinosaurs in the their natural habitat, and an appendix lists museums and other major repositories of tracks and replicas, and gives details on tracksites open to the public. Includes annotated references and detailed descriptions of important specimens, describing how these trackways can help interpret behavior.

Author : Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 0881509981
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Dinosaurs: Discovering Prehistoric Sites in the American Southwest written by Anthony D. Fredericks and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines literary anecdotes with recommendations for hands-on discovery to introduce natural-world excavations in Arizona and New Mexico, where dinosaurs used to roam during the Mesozoic era.