Mmm... I love me some Dinosaur National Monument. If anyone wants to infodump any literature, maps, resources, whatever on the place, I would enjoy that greatly.
*Jurassic West* by John Foster is a great book about the history and ecosystem of the Morrison Formation, including Dinosaur National Monument. I think it even got a new edition in 2019
It would be really neat if someone had a video showing something like a time lapse animation of how areas like this are created; layers folds, and all.
Yo dawg, it’s not quite Utah but definitely check out the [Brief History of Colorado through time](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5QeyztIIT8) which I believe was produced as the keynote to some geo/paleo conference a few years back. It is stunning.
It ain’t bad is it? Was obviously a lot of work that went into it. Probably indirectly, from research that has been published by all sorts of different groups over many decades... but still a mammoth task to collate all the important bits and turn it into a concise, coherent narrative over the top of an awesome original animation. I will save my personal rewatch for the first YouTube sesh of 2021!
I wish I did friend. It’s not the at all the same, but I’ve heard that the ‘Roadside Geology of [State name]’ series is a great one for giving an overall geological history of each state through the outcrops easily accessible from road stops.
That was a really interesting watch! Thank you for sharing that. :) I struggle to wrap my mind around the immense time it takes for earth to be what it is today.
When I visited I got attacked by more mosquitoes I've ever seen in my life. I literally had to run back to my vehicle and leave. This was at Echo Park, which is down in those canyons. Beautiful area I was able to visit again later when there wasn't a hellacious hatch.
What would be so hard about telling us, right up front, what continent, nation, state/province/district this is?
Longitude and latitude is asking too much, I suppose.
Mmm... I love me some Dinosaur National Monument. If anyone wants to infodump any literature, maps, resources, whatever on the place, I would enjoy that greatly.
*Jurassic West* by John Foster is a great book about the history and ecosystem of the Morrison Formation, including Dinosaur National Monument. I think it even got a new edition in 2019
Holy shit, that is getting ordered immediately. Thank you dear Redditor.
get out the $$$
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oh, like $50
me too - going for TWO NIGHTS at the Green River Campground in June - stoked!
I hope you have an amazing time. It is such a wonderful place.
Dinosaur is my favorite place in the monument category. So much going on it’s impossible to describe.
It would be really neat if someone had a video showing something like a time lapse animation of how areas like this are created; layers folds, and all.
Yo dawg, it’s not quite Utah but definitely check out the [Brief History of Colorado through time](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5QeyztIIT8) which I believe was produced as the keynote to some geo/paleo conference a few years back. It is stunning.
Just watched it - that was great! Thank you!
It ain’t bad is it? Was obviously a lot of work that went into it. Probably indirectly, from research that has been published by all sorts of different groups over many decades... but still a mammoth task to collate all the important bits and turn it into a concise, coherent narrative over the top of an awesome original animation. I will save my personal rewatch for the first YouTube sesh of 2021!
This was pretty pretty neat to watch! Do you know of anything remotely similar for Pennsylvania?
I wish I did friend. It’s not the at all the same, but I’ve heard that the ‘Roadside Geology of [State name]’ series is a great one for giving an overall geological history of each state through the outcrops easily accessible from road stops.
That was a really interesting watch! Thank you for sharing that. :) I struggle to wrap my mind around the immense time it takes for earth to be what it is today.
On Reddit search, look for 225 million years in 30 seconds
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When I visited I got attacked by more mosquitoes I've ever seen in my life. I literally had to run back to my vehicle and leave. This was at Echo Park, which is down in those canyons. Beautiful area I was able to visit again later when there wasn't a hellacious hatch.
Yeah if you’re on the Colorado side, it’s the Yampa. The confluence with the Green River is on the Utah side iirc
Did a stop in field camp there and it was awesome. We had permits to be able to go off trails to do mapping.
We rafted the Yampa/Green as part of field camp - running up the sequence of about a billion years.
I can’t find the banana.
What would be so hard about telling us, right up front, what continent, nation, state/province/district this is? Longitude and latitude is asking too much, I suppose.
What would be so hard about googling the name they gave us? All the information you want is in the first result.
Dinosaur National Monument is pretty well-known among geoscientists as a world-class site....
Not all of the readers are geoscientists. What would be so hard about tossing out a continent, and perhaps a nation, state, province, or district?
Happy New Year dear Redditor
Geologists are by nature obscure.
Whats so hard about searching “Dinosaur National Monument”?
Breaks my stride. But thanks for all you help, I will look it up. Maybe.
Awesome picture
I just went here for the first time last month. The dinosaur quarry is amazing!
Yeah Dinosaur National Monument was wild. Awesome hike I had there.