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Author:

Johnson, Kirk R.

Title:

Cruisin' the fossil freeway : an epoch tale of a scientist and an artist on the ultimate 5,000-mile paleo road trip / with paleontologist Kirk R. Johnson and artist Ray Troll.

Publisher:

Fulcrum Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

204 p. : ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Paleontology--West (U.S.)
Dinosaurs--West (U.S.)
Fossils--West (U.S.)
West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
United States--Discovery and exploration.

Other Authors:

Troll, Ray, 1954- ill.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Suburban Rex -- On the road -- Bones galore -- This cabin walked -- The dead eds -- Dinosaur tracks at 65 MPH -- Out in the gumbo -- 40,000 mammals can be wrong -- Dr. Love's lost bone bed -- Surf and turf -- The raging uintatheres of vernal -- Ammonite spawning grounds -- The dinosaur diamond -- The Mormon Trilobite choir -- Three handshakes from Darwin.

Summary:

Contents: Suburban Rex -- On the road -- Bones galore -- This cabin walked -- The dead eds -- Dinosaur tracks at 65 MPH -- Out in the gumbo -- 40,000 mammals can be wrong -- Dr. Love's lost bone bed -- Surf and turf -- The raging uintatheres of vernal -- Ammonite spawning grounds -- The dinosaur diamond -- The Mormon Trilobite choir -- Three handshakes from Darwin.

ISBN:

1555914519 (pbk.) :
9781555914516 (pbk.) :

LCCN:

2007019480

Locations:

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)