Download or read book Fossil Collecting Areas in Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossils of Iowa written by Robert Wolf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of fossils that can be found and precise directions. Excellent illustrations by Carol Ann Ratcliff aide in identification. For an update in site conditions and geological names since the book was first published contact the author at [email protected].
Download or read book Fossils of Iowa written by Robert Charles Wolf and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossils for Amateurs written by Russell P. MacFall and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying, cleaning, and displaying fossils.
Download or read book The Guide to Iowa s State Preserves written by Ruth Herzberg and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iowa state preserves system was created in 1965; a decade later, thirty preserves had been dedicated, including “six native prairies, a native White Pine stand, the state's only Sphagnum bog, a Balsam Fir stand, some of the oldest exposed rock outcrops in the world, an ancient fort, a fen, several Indian mound groups and a historical cemetery.” This new guide to all ninety Iowa state preserves—biological, geological, archaeological, historical, and scenic—describes the state's most treasured prairies and forests, quartzite outcrops and ice caves, and Indian mounds and wetlands as well as such historic sites as Fort Atkinson and Montauk. Each entry includes two-color, progressively scaled maps giving the location of the preserve within the state, within its county, relative to a nearby town (with a recommended driving route), and on the local landscape (using USGS 7.5-minute topo maps). Also included are written directions (using 911 street names and signs); a description of the preserve's size, features, and history; a list of nearby or similar preserves, parks, natural areas, and other attractions; recommended readings; and contact information. (There are a few exceptions for privately owned or fragile preserves.) For travelers, a map in the introduction numbers all the preserves both geographically and alphabetically by name. Although the preserves system emphasizes preservation rather than recreation, some preserves do have formal trails; some allow hunting, horseback riding, and canoeing; a few have museums or nature centers. This comprehensive guide allows visitors to plan active and informative visits to sites that highlight Iowa's natural and cultural heritage.
Download or read book Preliminary Study of the Agate Springs Fossil Quarries Area Sioux County Nebraska written by United States. National Park Service. Region Two and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Science Through Safety written by Jack A. Gerlovich and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a brief description of the major components found effective in school safety programs (safety management, education, and services) and data on school accidents in Iowa, this book addresses various aspects of safety related to science instruction, emphasizing that responsibility for safety must be shared by both teacher and students. Areas discussed include: (1) legal liability (definition of pertinent terms, teacher responsibilities, and case studies); (2) eye protection; (3) safety issues and concerns in biology, chemistry and physics settings; (4) safety concerns, considerations, and measures related to field trips and associated activities, the physical plant, science facilities, student research projects, and handicapped students; and (5) accident/incident reporting systems. General and specific guidelines are provided for each of the major areas and related topics addressed. Appendices include checklists related to the areas, a chart of selected eye protectors, safety equipment (eye washes, safe pipettor, safe pipetting station, and a self-sterilizing inoculating loop), and general first-aid guidelines. (JN)
Download or read book Rock Collecting in Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1977* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Southern California Paleontological Society and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa Underground written by Greg A. Brick and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a mysterious and fascinating tour through Iowa's underground treasures. This guide will reveal the state's subterranean attractions including show and wild caves, springs, mining sites and other geological and man-made sites. If you are a sport caver, a scientist, or curious tourist, this guide will give you all you need to know to begin exploring Iowa's underground world. IN THIS BOOK YOU'LL FIND - Detailed directions with helpful tips and precautions. - Descriptions of various lead- and coal-mining museums. - Fun stories and legends, including cave fairies, trolls, and ghost towns. - Additional information about Iowa's coal-mining past. - Facts about underground biological life. "A uniquely written perspective on the underground wonders of Iowa, by a premier Midwest cave historian." --Gary K. Soule, Speleo Historian and Trustee, American Spelean History Association
Download or read book Midwest Gem Fossil and Mineral Trails Great Lakes States written by June Culp Zeitner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White River Badlands written by Rachel C. Benton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Download or read book Millie and Sam s Fossil Hunt written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on collecting fossils, identifying fossils, and caring for a collection of fossils.
Download or read book Fossil Legends of the First Americans written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Download or read book The Succession of Fossil Faunas in the Kinderhook Beds at Burlington Iowa written by Frank Alonzo Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rock Island District written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
