EARTH: Making Tracks Through the Dinosaur Diamond

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Maureen Moses (mmoses@americangeosciences.org)

4/26/2016

 

Alexandria, VA - Between Utah and Colorado, there is a geographical diamond in which lies a rich collection of fossils and dinosaur footprints recording the history of when dinosaurs inhabited this region. All major ages of dinosaur life are recorded here, and for more than a hundred years, paleontologists have busily been debating which dinosaurs existed based on bones and abundant dinosaur tracks, the latter of which provide clues that allow geoscientists to interpret dinosaur daily life. 

 

EARTH Magazine travels through time to meet the major players of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous - from sauropods and theropods to protomammals - that created the rich tapestry of life in this region millions of years ago. We follow dinosaurs along the hundreds-of-kilometers-long "Dinosaur Freeway," learning perhaps as much about them from just their footprints as we do from bones. Read more about the latest trackway findings athttp://bit.ly/1UeWQFR.

 

The May 2016 Issue of EARTH Magazine is now available at www.earthmagazine.org and is filled with breaking news from the geoscience community. Find out about the softer side of hydrothermal vents, what role magnesium plays in Earth's geodynamo and how climate and the seafloor are linked. In addition to exploring the Dinosaur Diamond, explore Denver's dinosaurs in this month's Travels in Geology column. All this and much more in EARTH Magazine. 

 

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