Transcript Dinosaur national monument

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In 1909, paleontologist Earl Douglas
discovered 150 million dinosaurs fossil
beds; The Dinosaur National Monument
was establish in 1915 by President
Woodrow Wilson in order to preserve the
fossil beds.
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August 17, 1909 - Earl Douglass, Carnegie Museum
paleontologist, discovers eight vertebra of an Apatosaurus,
the first skeleton discovered and excavated at the Dinosaur
Quarry
October 4, 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson signs presidential
proclamation establishing 80 acres surrounding the Dinosaur
Quarry as Dinosaur National Monument
July 14, 1938 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Presidential
proclamation expanding monument by approximately
200,000 acres to include the canyons of the Green and
Yampa rivers
June 1, 1958 - Dinosaur Quarry Visitor Center is dedicated and
opened to the public
1965 - Monument Headquarters Visitor Center and Harpers
Corner tour road are dedicated and opened to the public
October 4, 2011 - The Quarry Exhibit Hall and Quarry Visitor
Center are reopened after a 5½ year closure.
Dinosaur National Park is
located between Utah and
Colorado States
Dinosaur National Park U.S.A. Map
Dinosaur national park
has many features such
as the green river and
split mountan
A topographic map of the Utah
side, Dinosaur National park has
a variety of features such as the
canon river.
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Dinosaur NM is a land of ancient fossils,
past environments preserved in Stone,
where two rivers go across mountains
and a landscape with life everywhere
The Green river extends 730 miles from its
source in the Colorado river
 The Yampa river extends for nearly 250
miles from its headwaters in Colorado's
mountains
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Flaming Gorge Dam,
47 miles upstream
from the park
boundaries.
A concrete thin-arch
dam on the Green
River, a major
tributary of the
Colorado River, in
northern Utah in the
United States
Global warming
 Oil and gas development
 Air quality problems
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tied together
somehow
On March 2015 Feds Set New Rules for Drilling Near Dinosaur National
Monument, Oil and gas development can continue in tandem with
conservation efforts. Based on previous experience, its known that oil
and gas exploration and development adjacent to Dinosaur National
Monument could cause air and water pollution, increased noise, loss of
wildlife habitat, a decrease in visitors, and numerous environmental
impacts from creating new roads to handle the increased traffic.
* EPA _ US Environmental Protection Agency
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webcam
Fossils ; All of the rocks exposed in the
area are sedimentary mainly because
many dinosaurs once roamed at the
area and many of them died leaving
there fossilized bones in side the rock
 all of the exposed rocks in the area are
sedimentary rock the age can range
from 1100 million years ago to 25 million
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The technology usage at dinosaur
national park is helpful because it helps
Inform people about harmful
occurrences happing at the park so they
can help.
Dinosaur is on the Uinta Mountains. And
the Uinta Mountains where formed in a
similar way to the rocky Mountains where
formed
 The Uinta mountains where formed by
compressional forces during the
Laramide orogeny area.
The tectonic plates could cause more
mountains to be formed and changes in
the landscape of the area.
 The subduction zone’s may affect the
land in more years to come and the land
moving may change how the park look’s
year’s from now
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http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/crsp/gallery/fg-gallery/pages/pg6.html
http://www.mintpressnews.com/epa-spills-1-million-gallons-of-mine-wasteinto-a-colorado-river/208430/
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http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/dino/index.html
http://www.nps.gov/dino/learn/nature/geology.htm
https://www.npca.org/articles/170-fighting-oil-and-gas-development-atdinosaur-national-monument-a-victory-or
ww.publicnewsservice.org/2015-03-31/public-lands-wilderness/feds-set-newrules-for-drilling-near-dinosaur-national-monument/a45426-1