[Rockhounds] Dinosaur National Monument

[Glenn Wimpee]

For you folks, especially Kreigh and J.R. who are already snowed in and experiencing cabin fever, here is a link to a few pics Jeanette took in August 2004 at Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal, Utah.
 
http://pawpawtiger.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!156E2AA3FBAB93F3!1011/
 
I was blown away and awestruck. The "wall" has been enclosed in an air conditioned building built around it right where God put it. The matrix is nearly vertical now and once was a stream bed. Almost complete dino fossils are being preserved there so that common ordinary people can walk right up to it and make first hand observations. (Visually, not physically, and they ask that you not touch the fossils which would eventually cause damage.) It is noted that there is now no scientific purpose to be served by excavating these since so many similar specimens have been collected already.
 
BTW the National Geographic Channel is already showing clips of the recently discovered dino "mummy" on other paleo and related shows.
 
Also speaking of snow, there was snow on Mauna Kea when we were there in May of 2001.
 
Glenn 
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