Author: Vincent L. Morgan
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Paleontologists
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Kitty Blount
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756638364
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Provides in-depth entries on early Earth's climates, conditions, animal and plant life forms that flourished and floundered throughout each era, along with biographies of notable figures.

Author: Vincent L. Morgan
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Fayyūm (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Jane P. Davidson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253033586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.

Author: C.L. Camp, S.P. Welles, and Morton Green
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813710375
Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: David Rains Wallace
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520237315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: David B. Williams
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295746475
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.

Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Footprints, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Author: Justin A. Spielmann
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Neogene Mammals: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44