Dinosaurs under the aurora /
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 und...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Langue: | English |
| Publié: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012. |
| Collection: | Life of the past.
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Table des matières:
- The arctic setting
- Tracks lead the way : circumarctic discoveries from Svalbard to Koryakia
- A black gold rush sets the stage for discovery in Alaska
- Peregrines, permafrost, and bone beds : digging dinosaurs on the Colville River
- Texas, teachers, and Chinooks : taking fieldwork to a new level
- The Arctic during the Cretaceous
- Cretaceous dinosaur pathways in the paleo-Arctic and along the western interior seaway
- Applying new technologies to the ancient past
- Natural resources, climate change, and arctic dinosaurs
- Future expansion of the Arctic dinosaur record.