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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
July 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: Driving to "West Dakota" From Badlands National Park through the Black Hills to Devils Tower, four hours of driving in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming generates a roadtrip through a region that has much to entertain geo-philic travelers. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Jay Chapman |
Virginia's Highlands The Grayson Highlands offers an opportunity to break the uniformity of the Appalachians and learn about the geologic history of eastern North America. |
High on Adventure
April 2008
Vicki Andersen |
Creation of the cascade mountains The 700-mile stretch of playground known as the Cascade Mountain range is comprised of more than a dozen major peaks. |
Geotimes
June 2006
John Rowland |
Coastal Maryland: On the Lookout for Ghosts, Fish and Fossils Point Lookout, Md., has beautiful coastlines along the Chesapeake Bay, where recreational opportunities abound, including boating and fishing. The region has a rich geologic and cultural history. |
Outside
April 2006 |
Adrenaline Nation Secret instructions on how to plot an escape from your hardwired grind to wide-open adventure in North America. |
Outside
July 2003 |
Land o' the Free Our ten favorite stretches of American blacktop come with all the essential summer pleasures. So pick your pavement and go. |
Geotimes
November 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Fossils of Florissant... Areal mapping applications... |
Adventure
October 2004
Cliff Ransom |
Northeast of Nowhere Adventures in Oregon and Washington include kayaking and hiking. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Slower Cooling in Oregon New research suggests that the climate in Oregon slowly cooled over 6 million years as a result of evolving grasslands pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and locking the carbon into the soil. |
Geotimes
February 2005 |
Paleontologist for a Day Over the last 10 years, approximately 6,000 visitors have participated in pay-to-dig programs and have found well-preserved remnants of Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Apatosaurus and Allosaurus (the only meat-eater) fossils, as well as clues to the Jurassic environment. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Josh Chamot |
Largest Fossilized Forest Found in Mine Deep within a maze of coal mines nestled along the eastern edge of Illinois, an ancient swamp forest is preserved at its time of death by a catastrophic flood 307 million years ago. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Planet Warms, Plants Move in Interlopers from southern and eastern North America and from Europe made their way to Wyoming when global temperatures shot up by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius around 55.8 million years ago. |
Geotimes
October 2004 |
Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute... |
Geotimes
July 2005
Sara Pratt |
Fossil Forests Sunk by Salt Geologists, long puzzled about what drove the Joggins, Nova Scotia basin to sink steadily and repeatedly, burying 63 layers of fossilized trees in the process, now say that they have found the answers to some of the mysteries of the formation in a simple substance: salt. |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2010
Neely & Neely |
Olduvai Gorge Archeological Site of Leakey's Discoveries Louis and Mary Leakey came to this site in 1923 and spent most of the next 70 years here, finding fossils 150 million years old, stone tools, animal and human signs. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Jay Chapman |
Fossil Fetus of Flying Reptile Unearthed The Liaoning specimens were located in lake deposits that were periodically smothered by volcanic ash, preserving the fossils in fine detail. The depth and quality of this fossil resource will continue to make Liaoning a paleontology hot spot in the future. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Christina Reed |
Chemical Fossils Preserved in Lava Reveal Remains of Ancient Sea Life Searching for microfossils inside igneous rocks. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Home-Baked Plants Solve Petrol Mystery Scientists have baked up their own artificial leaf fossils to answer a long-standing puzzle concerning the chemical formation of kerogen, a precursor to fossil fuels. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Mary Beth Gardiner |
Fossil Hunter When he's not busy building imaging and electrophysiology tools for studying the brain, Jason Osborne can be found fossil hunting. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Dinosaur-Eating Mammal Recent excavations in China's Liaoning province have uncovered a well-preserved complete skeleton of a dog-sized mammal, alongside a cat-sized mammal that had the remains of its last supper -- a young dinosaur -- fossilized in its stomach. |
Science News
May 28, 2005 |
From the May 25, 1935, Issue Yankee's New Welded Mast Saves in Air Resistance... Plants Become Poisonous by Absorbing Selenium... Patagonia's "Wild West" Yields Unknown Fossils... |
Geotimes
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Sara Pratt |
Reaching Past Heights A new method of calculating paleoelevations using the stomata, or breathing pores, on fossilized leaves may have promise in constructing the past heights of the landscape. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
The Color of Crinoids Scientists have discovered complex organic molecules still preserved within 350-million-year-old crinoid fossils. Because the molecules are slightly different from species to species, the find could offer a new way to track the creatures' evolution through time. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago. |
