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The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is a fossil site and museum at Johnson Farm in Saint George, Utah. [1] The museum preserves thousands of dinosaur footprints right at the original site of discovery. The site was discovered by accident on February 26, 2000 by Dr. Sheldon Johnson, a retired optometrist and resident of St. George.
St. George: Washington: Historic house: Mid-19th-century period home of Brigham Young: Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum: Ogden: Weber: Automotive: website, located in Union Station, auto examples of the Golden Age of motorcar history, antique gas station pumps, model cars, Utah license plates Bryce Canyon National Park: Bryce: Garfield ...
Paleontology in Utah refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Utah. Utah has a rich fossil record spanning almost all of the geologic column. [1] During the Precambrian, the area of northeastern Utah now occupied by the Uinta Mountains was a shallow sea which was home to simple ...
Researchers discovered the bones in 2007 in the Badlands of Utah. “Dinosaurs are a great vehicle for teaching our visitors about the nature of science, and what better than a green, almost 80 ...
Jensen, Utah, vicinity: Circa-1915 field laboratory of Earl Douglass (1862–1931), the paleontologist who discovered and led excavations at the adjacent dinosaur fossil bed. [5] [6] 4: Denis Julien Inscription: December 19, 1986 : Whirlpool Canyon
The oldest beds of this formation belong to the Dinosaur Canyon Member, a reddish, slope-forming rock layer with thin beds of siltstone that are interbedded with mudstone and fine sandstone. [3] The Dinosaur Canyon, with a local thickness of 140 to 375 feet (43 to 114 m), was probably laid down in slow-moving streams, ponds and large lakes. [ 4 ]
The entire length of the highway has been designated the Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway, as part of the Utah Scenic Byways program. This road also forms part of the Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway, a National Scenic Byway. Residents of Moab frequently refer to SR-128 as "the river road", [3] after the Colorado River, which the highway ...
Ogden (/ ˈ ɒ ɡ d ə n / OG-dən) is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, [6] Utah, United States, approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of the Great Salt Lake and 40 miles (64 km) north of Salt Lake City.