LAND OF THE DEAD

Exploring ancient worlds and the plants and animals that lived in them

Friday, December 31, 2010

NEITHER SNOW, NOR COLD, NOR FOG OF DAY

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Just another foggy day in Jensen.  Split Mountain is somewhere out there.  Well we were hit with another snow storm, dumping about 10 mo...
Monday, December 27, 2010

HOLIDAYS AT THE QVC

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Well the evidence is in. As this photo shows Santa works very,very hard to get everywhere on Christmas Eve (no matter how remote) and the c...
Friday, December 24, 2010

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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Bulldozer In Snow: a 1950s Winter Wonderland at the Carnegie Quarry, Dinosaur National Monument. Wishing all constant readers of this bl...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

THE WHITE STUFF

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 Well Winter has finally arrived at Dinosaur. First a night of freezing rain. Then a day and night of snow left a foot of the stuff on the g...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

IN THE BEGINNING

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It is ironic that Earl Douglass, the paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum who found the quarry that became Dinosaur National Monument, ...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

SUDWAND

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Although I haven’t reported on them in a while, construction activities continue at the Quarry Visitor Center. The majority of the work is ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

A FISHY CROC TALE

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A variety of things have caused me to put off posting here for a while. They couldn't be avoided. Nevertheless, its time to get this tra...
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DAN CHURE: I have been the paleontologist at Dinosaur National Monument for 34 years. My main research interests are dinosaurs & the ecosystems they lived in. I am also interested in fossil resource management & preservation, & the impacts of 20th century warfare and social revolutions on fossil collections & scientists. This blog is personal and not an official blog of Dinosaur National Monument or the National Park Service.
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