Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies
In October 2010, a bulldozer operator working at the base of the Snowmass ski area in Colorado's Rocky Mountains uncovered the skeleton of a young female mammoth. Over the next 11 months, this find would yield a treasure trove of amazingly well-preserved ice age fossils — more than 5,000 bones of over 40 kinds of animals — and would change forever our understanding of alpine life in the ice age. The Snowmastodon Project's two lead scientists tell the dynamic story of this discovery and dig: the excitement, emotion, and the colorful cast of characters who made the project a success.
- Author
- Kirk R. Johnson, Ian Miller
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- People's Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781936905065
- Genres
- science
- Release date
- 2012
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