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Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
Fossil Victory in Alabama After nearly four years of battles over reclamation of a fossil-rich, former coal mining site, Rep. Robert Aderholt announced that the Union Chapel site would be turned over the the state for preservation.   |
Geotimes
April 2004
Megan Sever |
Tracks in the Colorado Sand University of Colorado researchers recently made a stunning discovery on a golf course: several well-preserved mammal tracks from the age of the dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after. |
Geotimes
June 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Legal victory for mining In Barrick Goldstrike Mines vs. EPA, now being heralded as a victory for the mining industry, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., ruled in April that mine operators do not have to report trace metals in waste rocks to the EPA. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Megan Sever |
Man-Sized Scorpion Tracks Geologist Martin Whyte's discovery of 330 million-year-old man-sized walking eurypterid tracks helps to shed light on that time's environment. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Need a Job? Coal Workers Wanted As the demand for coal increases, the demand for coal workers is also rising, at a time when a notable dearth of mining engineering geologists and other workers is coming down the pipe. |
