Fossil Footprints of Western North America
Author: Martin G. Lockley
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 516
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Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeasonal Guide to the Natural Year
Author: Steve Price
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilling a huge gap in nature guidebooks to Texas, Steve Price delivers a aguide to the natural flora and fauna found in the Longhorn State. More than a simple listing of natural places, this guide provides readers with all the necessary details of where an dwhen to view the most spectacular natural events in the state. Maps, illus.
Dinosaur Highway
Author: Laurie E. Jasinski
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0875654738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth’s Cretaceous layer. It wouldn’t be until a summer day in1909, however, when young George Adams went splashing along the creekbed, that chance and shifting sediments would reveal these stony traces of an ancient past. Young Adams’s first discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy River Valley, near the small community of Glen Rose, Texas, came more than one hundred million years after the reign of the dinosaurs. During this prehistoric era, herds of lumbering “sauropods” and tri-toed, carnivorous “theropods” made their way along what was then an ancient “dinosaur highway.” Today, their long-ago footsteps are immortalized in the limestone of the riverbed, arousing the curiosity of picnickers and paleontologists alike. Indeed, nearly a century after their first discovery, the “stony oddities” of Somervell County continue to draw Saturday-afternoon tourists, renowned scholars, and dinosaur enthusiasts from across the nation and around the globe. In her careful, and colorful, history of Dinosaur Valley State Park, Jasinski deftly interweaves millennia of geological time with local legend, old photographs, and quirky anecdotes of the people who have called the valley home. Beginning with the valley’s “first visitors”—the dinosaurs—Jasinski traces the area’s history through to the decades of the twentieth century, when new track sites continued to be discovered, and visitors and locals continued to leave their own material imprint upon the changing landscape. The book reaches its culmination in the account of the hard-won battle fought by Somervell residents and officials during the latter decades of the century to secure Dinosaur Valley’s preservation as a state park.
The Genesis Flood
Author: John C. Whitcomb (Jr.)
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596383951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver fifty years ago Henry Morris and John Whitcomb joined together to write a controversial book that sparked dialogue and debate on Darwin and Jesus, science and the Bible, evolution and creation -- culminating in what would later be called the birth of the modern creation science movement. Now, fifty years, forty-nine printings, and 300,000 copies after the initial publication of The Genesis Flood, P & R Publishing has produced a fiftieth anniversary edition of this modern classic. - Back cover.
Dinosaur Tracks and Traces
Author: David D. Gillette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780521407885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book ever to be devoted to this subject.
Evolution and Human Fossil Footprints
Author: Aaron Judkins
Publisher:
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781933641317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Aaron Judkins has provided an academic service of inestimable value in the search for human fossil footprints and the orgins of mankind. His exhaustive documentation of human footprints in rock strata around the world verifies that man is not a product of long evolutionary developemnt, but has instead left his mark and footprints in all the eras of the geologic column. This renders the geologic column the product of the worldwide Flood with man present in all its epochs. The inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that man is the product of supernatural design and the myriad of fossils associated witht he footprints represent his companion in the Flood.
Bones for Barnum Brown
Author: Roland T. Bird
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013-05-31
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 0875655165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R. T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle until he met Barnum Brown, Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a leader in the study of dinosaurs. Beginning in 1934, Bird spent many years as an employee of the museum and as Brown's right-hand man in the field. His chart of the Howe Quarry in Wyoming, a massive sauropod boneyard, is one of the most complex paleontological charts ever produced and a work of art in its own right. His crowning achievement was the discovery, collection, and interpretation of gigantic Cretaceous dinosaur trackways along the Paluxy River near Glen Rose and at Bandera, Texas. A trackway from Glen Rose is on exhibit at the American Museum and at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin. His interpretation of these trackways demonstrated that a large carnosaur had pursued and attacked a sauropod, that sauropods migrated in herds, and that, contrary to then-current belief, sauropods were able to support their own weight out of deep water. These behavioral interpretations anticipated later dinosaur studies by at least two decades. From his first meeting with Barnum Brown to his discoveries at Glen Rose and Bandera, this very human account tells the story of Bird's remarkable work on dinosaurs. In a vibrantly descriptive style, Bird recorded both the intensity and excitement of field work and the careful and painstaking detail of laboratory reconstruction. His memoir presents a vivid picture of camp life with Brown and the inner workings of the famous American Museum of Natural History, and it offers a new and humanizing account of Brown himself, one of the giants of his field. Bird's memoir has been supplemented with a clear and concise introduction to the field of dinosaur study and with generous illustrations which delineate the various types of dinosaurs.
Lone Star Dinosaurs
Author: Louis L. Jacobs
Publisher: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural
Published: 1999-05
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780890966747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, after mountains of time have passed, the story of dinosaurs in what is now Texas is being reconstructed, footprint by footprint, bone by bone. Lone Star Dinosaurs tells that story, along with the exciting tale of the discoveries that have opened a peephole into the past. Behind each fossil find, there is not just a dinosaur but a person - sometimes a child - whose spark of curiosity lights the picture of prehistory. This is a thrilling story, engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, through which young and old alike can enter the world of the dinosaurs and the world of the dinosaur hunters. Dinosaurs like Pleurocoelus, Alamosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Tenontosaurus are a Texas legacy from worlds long past. Texas boasts of every basic group of dinosaurs - a remarkable diversity that samples nearly the entire range of dinosaurian development over an immense expanse of time. In fact, the three dinosaur-bearing areas within the state - the Panhandle, Central Texas, and Big Bend - yield treasures of vastly different ages, from the beginning of the Mesozoic Era more than 200 million years ago to the time of the big extinction some 66 million years ago. These dinosaurs lived in such different arrangements of the continents and oceans that they may as well have lived in different worlds. Their stories offer a compelling picture of the history of life on our planet.
Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-09-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0300187580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
