In 1978 I started undergraduate studies at the Mineralogical Institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). After passing the candidate's examination in January 1982 I was selected for a Deutscher Akademischen Auslandsdienst (DAAD)-scholarship to study one year at the Geology-Department of the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg/South Africa). The renewal of this scholarship made it possible to do my MSc- thesis on the geochemistry and petrology of the metamorphosed massive sulphide deposit, Matchless Mine (Namibia) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. M. Okrusch (Universität Würzburg) and Prof. Dr. K.J. Maiden (University of Witwatersrand).
In June 1984, I joined the Department of Geology of the Rand Afrikaans University (Johannesburg, South Africa) in order to undertake a PhD project. My PhD "A mineralogical and mineralchemical investigation of Archaean granites bordering the Witwatersrand Basin" (Internal Examiner: Prof. Dr. J.M. Barton (Jr); external Examiner: Prof. Dr. B.J. Skinner (Yale University); Prof. Dr. J.P.R. de Villiers (then Arizona State University) was completed in 1987.
From November 1987 to August 1989 I have been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Mineralogy of the Universität Würzburg (Germany). Since September 1989 I was a member of the Universität Bremen, first as a Junior lecturer and then from 1993 as a Senior Lecturer. In March 1999 I was appointed as Full Professor for for Ore Petrology and Geochemistry at the University of Würzburg. In April 2007 I changed to the University of Erlangen- Nürnberg where I was appointed as Full Professor for Geochemistry and Economic Geology.
Chairman of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Namibia (1999-2003).
Senior and Graduate: Ore Petrology, Geochemistry, Application of Geochemistry Applied to Ore Deposits, Analytical Instruments in Geochemistry.
My present research interest is mainly concerned with the geology, geochemistry, fluid chemistry and exploration of ore deposits as well as fluid/rock interaction in metamorphic rocks.
Consultantships for the Geological Survey of Germany (BGR, Hannover): Petrological investigation and exploration of major gold deposits in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Conakry).
Die Lagerstättenforschung befaßt sich mit der Entstehung, Aufsuchung, Bewertung und Nutzung von mineralischen Rohstoffen (Metallrohstoffe, Industrieminerale, Steine und Erden) und Energierohstoffen. Diese Rohstoffe bilden eine existententielle Grundlage unserer Industrieproduktion.
Deutschland ist heute mittlerweile bei allen Primärrohstoffen praktisch zu 100 % einfuhrabhängig. 97.3 % des Rohölbedarfs und 78 % des Erdgases müssen ebenfalls eingeführt werden. Um im internationalen Wettbewerb konkurrenzfähig zu bleiben, müssen auf modernen Werkstoffen beruhende, d.h. aus Verbundstoffen oder Legierungen bestehende, Produkte erzeugt werden. Daher ist es das übergeordnete Ziel angewandter Lagerstättenforschung, Beiträge zu leisten, die eine technisch sinnvolle und dabei zugleich dauerhaft-umweltgerechte Nutzung der erschöpflichen mineralischen Ressourcen unterstützen sollen. Gemeinsam mit anderen Disziplinen der Geowissenschaften, wie vor allem der Geochemie, leistet sie weiterhin Beiträge zu einem besseren Verständnis von Bedingungen und Prozessen der Stoffanreicherung und -dispersion in komplexen Geosystemen. Darüber hinaus liefert sie Grundlagen und Methoden für die technisch-ökonomische und ökologische Bewertung des Nutzungs- und Risikopotentials von Geomaterialien und ihrer Lagerstätten und leistet damit unverzichtbare Beiträge sowohl zur Sicherstellung der Versorgung mit Rohstoffen als auch zu deren Ressourcen- und umweltschonender Gewinnung.
Die Lagerstättenkunde ist eine interdisziplinärer Forschungsbereich, der Verbindungen zu allen geowissenschaftlichen Disziplinen als auch zum Ingenieurwesen, den Umwelt- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften aufweist. Mit ihrem grundsätzlichen Ansatz, der geogene Stoffanreicherungen als das Ergebnis einer von der Stoffquelle über Transportwege bis zum Absatzort wirkende Prozeßkette versteht, verfügt die Lagerstättenforschung auch über optimale Voraussetzungen für die Bearbeitung von Problemstellungen der geochemischen Umweltforschung . Internationale wachsende Bedeutung erhalten Fragestellungen zur Minimierung der Kontamination der Schutzgüter Luft, Wasser, und Boden während der Exploration und Ausbeutung von Georessourcen in Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern. Dahingehend ist die fachliche Differenzierung, die Fokussierung auf Schwerpunktthemen und intensivierte Anwendungsorientierung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Nichtmetallrohstoff-Sektors und der Umweltforschung von zentraler Bedeutung und sollte auch in Deutschland international konkurrenzfähig erhalten bleiben.
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Anthony Horowitz - August 2017
Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
By: Robin Morgan-Bentley
Narrated by: Anthony Horowitz
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Art & Literature
The Word Is Murder
By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
4.5 out of 5 stars 2,584
A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can't control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's new thriller. Spread the word. The word is murder.
The Unemployed Detective
By Sarah on 30-08-17
Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders, Book 1
Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life. She's worked with the revered crime writer for years, and his detective, Atticus Pund, is renowned for solving crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. As Susan knows only too well, vintage crime sells handsomely. It's just a shame that it means dealing with an author like Alan Conway.... But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems.
Who? How? Where & Why?
By Mrs Q on 10-10-16
The Body on the Beach
By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Simon Brett
Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a pleasingly self-contained retirement town on England's southern coast. Which is precisely why Carole Seddon, who has outlived both her husband and her career at the Home Office, has chosen to reside there. So the last thing Carole expects to encounter in Fethering is a new neighbour with but one name and an obviously colourful past.
A great read
By Ms on 15-05-19
Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks.
a ripping yarn
By L on 25-02-12
Narrated by: Oliver Chris
In the first book in the number-one best-selling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, 14-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.
Alex Rider very exciting 👍🙂
By Lin Pe on 04-06-20
The Crime at Black Dudley
An Albert Campion Mystery
By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: David Thorpe
When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
Campion's first appearance...
By FictionFan on 27-01-17
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1
The Jeeves Collection
By: P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
"I have the honour to offer up to you, thanks to the good people of Audible, a selection of some of my very favourite Wodehouse. If these stories are new to you I hope it will be the beginning of a lifelong pleasure, if some or all are familiar I hope you will welcome them like old friends." (Stephen Fry). Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction.
Wrong voice...
By TC on 19-12-20
The Clutter Corpse
Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things - but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth.
Great new character
By CM on 14-01-21
By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Philip Franks
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....
By Michelle C on 05-04-17
50 Classic Horror Short Stories 2
Works by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker and Many More!
By: H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
Narrated by: Anthony Maher
CONTENTS: 1. The Imp of the Perverse [Poe], 2. The Devil in the Belfry [Poe], 3. The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft], 4. Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould], 5. The Outsider [Lovecraft], 6. The Hound [Lovecraft], 7. The Disinterment [Lovecraft], 8. The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft], 9. The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft], 10. The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan], 11. The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft], 12. The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft], 13. Berenice [Poe], 14. The Angel Of The Odd [Poe], 15. Black Ram [Baring-Gould], 16. The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe], 17. Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker].
By Aimee Mease on 12-10-20
Scorpia Rising
Alex Rider, Book 9
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Alex is trying to get his life back on track. But Scorpia has returned, and when you're the world's most successful spy, the only way out is to face your enemies. Alex's final mission will be the deadliest of all.
By o k boocock on 30-04-20
Murder at the Fitzwilliam
By: Jim Eldridge
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson is now retired. Known for his intelligence, investigative skills, and most of all his discretion, he's often consulted when a case must be solved quickly and quietly. So when a body is found in the Egyptian collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Wilson is called in.
Extremely pedestrian
By DartmoorDiva on 18-11-19
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, and others
Here is a collection of the Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales, read by a cast of leading British actors. Additional narrators include Geoffrey Palmer O.B.E., Sir Donald Sinden, and Elaine Stritch. Music: 'Reverie De Sebastian' by Steve Davies.
What a cast!
By Frank on 29-04-10
Murder on Thames
Cherringham. A Cosy Crime Series - Mystery Shorts 1
By: Neil Richards, Matthew Costello
Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon
Cherringham - a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems - until one morning a woman's body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things are not as clear as the police want them to be ... This first - of many cases brings Sarah and Jack together in an unlikely partnership.
A good book
By june-ann on 16-01-20
Forever and a Day
Narrated by: Matthew Goode
M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. We're just going to bring forward this other chap you've been preparing. But you didn't tell me his name.' 'It's Bond, sir,' the Chief of Staff replied. 'James Bond.' One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. It's time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organised crime. It's time for James Bond to earn his licence to kill.
An Iconic Legend is Born
By Simon on 02-06-18
Great Northern?
Swallows and Amazons, Book 12
By: Arthur Ransome
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
Great Northern? is the 12th, and final, book in Arthur Ransome's acclaimed series. Once again, the children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious egg collectors threatening the survival of a pair of rare birds not previously known to nest in British waters.
The Picts & the Martyrs
Swallows and Amazons Series, Book 11
For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series stands alone. Originally published over a half-century ago, the twelve books are still eagerly read by children and adults alike - by all those captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Such longevity is not only due to Ransome's unparalleled gift of storytelling, but also his championing of qualities such as independence and initiative; virtues that appeal to every generation, whether young or old. Jibbooms and bobstays!
Another great story
By Ruth on 02-11-20
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Here, we have a glorious ensemble of Woodhousian characters knocking elbows to foreheads in the elegant and grand Blandings Castle. Meet Freddy Threepwood, the vagrant son of doddering old Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Freddy has recently become engaged to Aline Peters, the American heiress of an irascible father. The snag is that Freddy seems to have at one point become enamored of a struggling actress, Joan Valentine, and written some impetuous and imprudent letters to her.
I was robbed!
By Steve on 31-08-18
Anthony Horowitz is an international best-selling author, journalist and playwright. As one of Britain's greatest living storytellers, we invited Anthony to our studios for the second time. He chatted about his career, personal life and latest release, The Word Is Murder. With a modern twist on the classic crime novel, fans will not be disappointed with this captivating thriller.
The Word Is Murder has been hailed as the 'whodunnit to end all whodunnits', as it transports the listener to the world of Detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz himself.
Listen to The Word is Murder HERE.
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He's had a hand in lots of projects I like and here he outlined a bit about the way he tries to spin a tale! Interesting listen and I feel inclined to search for anything he's written for adults now.
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Not as interesting as the first interview but it gives you an insight Horowitz writing.
With this interview, I am looking forward to the next book with Audible - Rory Kinnear! 🤘
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Intelligent, crafted writer with wonderful colorful books coming to audible and television. I enjoyed this interview because his excitement and enthusiasm in his voice tells me we have a lot of entertainment to look forward to.


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Top architects, engineers and designers have come together to build a 'future city' of over 60 buildings – made entirely from gingerbread. Now on show at the V&A Museum, the Museum of Architecture's Gingerbread City is an architectural feast of city planning.
Visitors can expect the unconventional and elaborate as they explore a mini, edible city which is fully-lit and includes everything from a cinema, library and school to a city farm, museum, sports stadium and botanical gardens. There are skyscraper office blocks, riverside homes, landmarks, green roofs, bridges and cycles ways.
The exhibition, which opens on Saturday 8 December, aims to connect the public with architecture in an exciting way. Visitors can peak inside sectional buildings, understand how city planners interact with natural landscapes and be inspired by the creativity and dexterity of some of the UK's top architects and designers. Based on a masterplan developed by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, Gingerbread City champions sustainable design ideas and innovation on a mini scale.
Exhibition highlights include: a futuristic high line called SugarLoop by Apt – a green corridor with elevated and twisted platform of light rail, cable car, cyclist and pedestrian routes. Foster + Partners have stretched the boundaries of gingerbread baking to construct an exciting and complex-shaped pavilion building, all with the help of a robot. Holland Harvey Architects bring a hopeful vision with a design for an attractive, contemporary homeless shelter with community cafe, local shop and affordable workspace, which draws attention to the 7,500 people sleeping rough on the streets of London each year.
Hopkins Architects will be 'Baking the world a better place' with their Bakewell Bridge, which features a design of continuous gingerbread men representing different cultures. LSI Architects have created the Hot Cross Pub and micro-brewery with 'grow your own hops' green walls to support the sustainable brewing process. PDP London's 'Curdzon Cinema' is an outdoor cinema and lemon farm with hydroponics centre to power the screen. Candy Peaks by PLP Architecture is one of the City's most prominent environmental structures and air purifier. Crystal Towers by NBBJ elevates green spaces high into the sky with its layers of vegetation and artificial waterfalls. Stanton Williams' 'Museum of Architec-sugar' takes visitors on a journey through the history of architecture. Fructose falls cascade over crispy cliffs to drive a toffee turbine generating clean power at Stride Treglown's Ice Cream Infirmary and Gingerbread Gardens. Zaha Hadid Architects have created an opera house design inspired by layering and stacking that is so often found in the practices work.
The Gingerbread City is an annual exhibition organised by the Museum of Architecture, which invites architects, designers and engineers to celebrate the festive season by creating an entire city from gingerbread. To celebrate this year's exhibition, families can have a go at building their own gingerbread houses at a series of workshops hosted by the Museum of Architecture.


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Williamson and Carr introduce the destroyer - Bistahieversor sealeyi: Part 2
We are continuing our interview from yesterday with Dr. Tom Williamson and Dr. Thomas Carr regarding their research on the new species of tyrannosaur, Bistahieversor sealeyi. This is the final part of the two-part series.
NMMNH P-25049, incomplete skull and skeleton of juvenile Bistahieversor sealeyi, as seen on display in the New Mexico's Seacoast Hall at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in 2004.
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RKHF to TW: You are a very well respected paleontologist who has worked for over 20 years in the badlands of New Mexico on a variety of projects. How did this research work into your larger overall work studying the Late Cretaceous through Paleogene evolutionary history.
TW: I have been very interested in the biostratigraphy of vertebrates in terrestrial deposits as well as their paleobiogeography; that is the study of the ancient stratigraphic and geographic distribution of vertebrate animals. As the fossil record of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene vertebrates improves, we are able to get more precise ages of various vertebrate faunas and this allows us to correlate much more accurately between faunas distributed among numerous depositional basins scattered throughout western North America and the rest of the world. This is allowing us to build up a better picture of the movements of different groups of animals over the globe. When this is combined with the evolutionary history of certain clades of animals, such as dinosaurs, we can begin to see patterns of how dinosaurs moved and evolved in response to global events such as climate change, changes in global sea level, changes in connectivity and dispersal routes between different biogeographic areas, and provinciality.
[Above: Artist reconstruction of Bistahieversor sealeyi. Image by Mary Sundstrom and Matt Celeskey, for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.]
RKHF: What are the origins of the name Bistahieversor sealeyi?
TC: Tom and I really wanted to credit Paul Sealey, who discovered the holotype (the adult) specimen. So the species name was an easy choice. If I recall correctly, Tom wanted to acknowledge both the BLM and the Navajo Nation, so he suggested using the Navajo term "bisti", which means "place of the adobe formations" and also is part of the name of the "Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness area". I suggested "eversor", which is Latin for "destroyer", instead of "saurus" or "tyrannus", which are used quite frequently. The name is pronounced "bis-tah-hee-ee-versor"; if you say it enough times, it rolls off the tongue quite easily!
RKHF: What does the discover of Bistahieversor tell us about dinosaurs that lived in the American southwest? How does it help to fill in our view of this part of the world, since more seems to be known about the American northwest and southern portions of Canada.
TW: Most dinosaur faunas of late Campanian age have, until recently, come primarily from the northern Rocky Mountain Region, especially Montana and southern Alberta. Few dinosaurs have been documented from more southerly regions until very recently. Now faunas are becoming better documented from New Mexico, southern Utah (Kaiparowits Formation), and West Texas (Aguja Formation), and even Mexico (Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico). These show that there was pronounced provinciality among dinosaurs so that each basin has a largely unique dinosaur fauna. Tyrannosaurs show a similar pattern so that each depositional basin that contains an identifiable tyrannosaur taxon has an endemic genus and/or species. This is not true of the latest Cretaceous when only one tyrannosaur is known from across western North America; Tyrannosaurus rex. This remains a mystery, but might partially explain why dinosaur faunas are so diverse in the late Campanian compared to the late Maastrichtian.
RKHF: Do you think there were geographical barriers between the northern portion of the US and the southwest US that would have restricted movement, and if so, to what degree.
TW: There is no evidence for geographical barriers between northern and southern regions of the US that I'm aware of, other than simple latitudinal differences. In addition, we see distinctive differences in the dinosaurian faunas between nearby areas of the southwest such as southern Utah and the San Juan Basin. It's not clear if these differences are due to slight age differences between the faunas or if they reflect something else. It's all very puzzling, but that's what makes it so interesting.
RKHF: What type of research is currently in your future?
TC: I presently have two projects on the go regarding T. rex ontogeny, and two others on Daspletosaurus diversity and ontogeny. Also, Tom and I will produce a monographic treatment of Bistahieversor, so this short article is a taste!
TW: Recently, I have focused on the early Paleocene vertebrate record in the San Juan Basin. This record is one of the best in the world, spanning about four million years in the interval immediately following the mass extinction that wiped out so many of the latest Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals. The early Paleocene was a time of ecological recovery during which animals and plants, and especially mammals underwent rapid evolutionary change, accompanied by an explosive increase in diversity and morphological variation. This is considered one of the best examples of an evolutionary radiation and is one of the most significant events in mammal evolutionary history. I am working with several colleagues including Anne Weil (Oklahoma State University), Ross Secord (University of Nebraska), Dan Peppe (Baylor University), and Steve Brusatte (a PH.D. student at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History) to explore, in unprecedented detail, the changes in faunal and floral changes and how they might be related to local and global climate change. We also plan to examine the evolutionary radiation of mammals in western North America using this refined record and by applying new analytical techniques.
RKHF to TC: Can you tell us more about your Vertebrate Paleontology program at Carthage College?
TC: At Carthage I offer a variety of courses to undergraduate students, including: Introduction to Vertebrate Paleontology, Dinosaur Evolution and Extinction, Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates, Human Evolution, Independent Study in Dinosaur Evolution and Ontogeny, and Senior Thesis in Dinosaur Evolution and Ontogeny. I also offer a field experience for students, but that is not always for credit hours. In short, my goal is to provide students with the training that they require for success in graduate school. Presently there's a trickle of students, so more are always welcome!
RKHF to TW: Can you tell us more about your Vertebrate Paleontology program at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science or your work with the University of New Mexico?
TW: As a Curator of Paleontology at the Museum, I am conducting an active field based research program. My primary research area is in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico and the most distant parts of this are within about a 3 hour drive of Albuquerque. Much of this land is on federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and I work closely with that agency to share data and coordinate fieldwork. I am also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Some of my research has previously been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Land Management.
As part of my research program, I collect fossils using a variety of methods. We employ screen washing to collect microvertebrates. Microvertebrates consist primarily of isolated teeth or jaw fragments. These are small enough that they are usually not collected by typical surface collecting techniques. Through screen washing we are finding many new or previously poorly known mammal specimens and this is greatly increasing our understanding of Cretaceous and Paleogene mammals of the San Juan Basin. We are also employing other collecting techniques and have had increasing success at recovering more complete vertebrate specimens. Over the past several years we have been very successful in collecting partial and nearly complete skeletons of mammals, reptiles, and other animals. These have greatly enriched our understanding of the morphology and biology, and evolutionary relationships of these animals.
Thanks to the Museum's collecting efforts over the past twenty years, it now holds the largest collection of vertebrate fossils from the San Juan Basin.
Carr, Thomas D. and Williamson, Thomas E. 2010. Bistahieversor sealeyi, gen. et sp. nov., a new tyrannosauroid from New Mexico and the origin of deep snouts in Tyrannosauroidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(1): 1 — 16, DOI: 10.1080/02724630903413032
Abstract: Skeletal remains of Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) tyrannosauroids are rare in southwestern North America (Carr and Williamson, 2000). Historically, the identity and diversity of southwestern tyrannosauroids was unclear because most of the fossils were isolated teeth and bones that are not diagnostic of known genera or species (Carr and Williamson, 2000). One partial skull and skeleton (OMNH 10131) from the upper Campanian of New Mexico was referred to the problematic tooth taxon Aublysodon cf. A. mirandus, a referral that was later falsified (Lehman and Carpenter, 1990; Carr and Williamson, 2004). Recently, two fairly complete skulls and skeletons were collected that enabled a review of tyrannosauroid fossils from the Campanian of New Mexico. These specimens provide the opportunity to accurately characterize Campanian tyrannosauroids of the southwest, and recover their phylogenetic relationships with well known species (Carr and Williamson, 2000). We report the presence of a new genus and species of deep-snouted tyrannosauroid from the upper Campanian of New Mexico, represented by several specimens including the partial skeleton of an adult and a juvenile. This new taxon is part of the diversification of deepsnouted tyrannosauroids and emphasizes the high species richness of this widespread clade in the upper Campanian of western North America.
Carr, T. D., and T. E. Williamson. 2000. A review of Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria: Coelurosauria) from New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:113–145.
Carr, T. D., and T. E. Williamson. 2004. Diversity of Late Maastrichtian Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from western North America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142:419–523.
Lehman, T. M., and K. Carpenter. 1990. A partial skeleton of the tyrannosaurid dinosaur Aublysodon from the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 64:1026–1032.
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The featured article in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology names a new species of tyrannosaur, Bistahieversor sealeyi (pronounced: bistah-he-ee-versor see-lee-eye), which was discovered in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness of New Mexico. This research was conducted by two of my colleagues and friends, paleontologists Thomas Williamson of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History/University of New Mexico and Thomas Carr of Carthage College, who graciously agreed to let me interview them about their recent work. This is the first part of a two-part series. Tune in tomorrow for the second half.
RKHF to TW: Briefly tell us about your work prior to the discovery of Bistahieversor.
TW: The San Juan Basin contains a fantastic record of Late Cretaceous through early Eocene deposits. Vertebrate fossils have been collected from these deposits for well over 100 years. As a graduate student, I studied early Paleocene mammals and their stratigraphic distribution in these strata. After being hired by the New Mexico Museum of Natural and Science in 1994, I launched a vigorous field program to explore Cretaceous rocks in search of vertebrate fossils. This resulted in the recovery of numerous dinosaur specimens including a skull of Parasaurolophus (1995), a partial skeleton of a subadult tyrannosaur (1995), that is referred to Bistahieversor, a skull of a new pachycephalosaur, Sphaerotholus (1998), and the skull and skeleton of Bistahieversor (1998). Much of this work was conducted with the assistance of Museum Volunteers including Paul Sealey. He discovered the Sphaerotholus and the adult Bistahieversor specimens.
RKHF: Tell us about the discovery of Bistahieversor.
TW: Paul Sealey, a volunteer at the Museum who has worked with me for many years, found the specimen on a weekend trip to the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness back in 1997. He photographed it and showed the pictures to me. One of the pictures showed a dentary with a tooth. From that, I knew he had found a tyrannosaur. I worked with the BLM to obtain an excavation permit, the first ever issued for a paleontological excavation on Federal Wilderness (or so I've been told). I collected the specimen during the summer of 1998 with help from lots of volunteers. The New Mexico Army National Guard volunteered to lift the specimen from the wilderness as part of a training exercise in September of that year. Preparation on the specimen did not start until about 2001 and was completed in 2003. The specimen is now on exhibit in the Cretaceous Seacoast Exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
[Photo: Group photo of Dr. Thomas Williamson (front row, standing in black t-shirt) with his crew with a field jacket containing portions of the holotype of Bistahieversor sealeyi in the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness Area of New Mexico (September, 1998). Photo by Ray Nelson.]
RKHF to TC: You are a renowned tyrannosaurus researcher - how did you become involved in this particular project?
TC: Tom Williamson invited me on board back at the Chicago SVP meeting in 1997. Some time before that he requested a copy of my Master's thesis. On the strength of that, he wanted to work with me in writing up the juvenile specimen. The adult was discovered a short time after SVP, if I recall correctly.
RKHF: What formation was the Bisti Beast collected from and what is its age? Tell us a little about the world Bistahieversor would have lived in and what other types of animals it would have lived around - or eaten!
TW: Bistahieversor is from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Campanian) Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation. The age is based on radiometric dates obtained from volcanic ashes above and below the fossil horizons as about 74 million years. This is slightly younger than most other late Campanian dinosaur faunas described from western North America - those tend to be closer to about 76 million years in age. The Hunter Wash Member represents an alluvial floodplain environment, inland from the western edge of the Western Interior Seaway. The San Juan Basin was a lush tropical forest at this time. The vertebrate fauna included abundant mammals, turtles, lizards, crocodilians, and dinosaurs. Dinosaurs included the hadrosaurs Kritosaurus and Parasaurolophus, the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras (Sphaerotholus is known from slightly younger deposits), the ceratopsian Pentaceratops, ankylosaurs, "raptors" such as Saurornitholestes and Dromaeosaurus (known primarily from teeth, but also from some foot bones), ornithomimids, and tyrannosaurs. Bistahieversor is the only tyrannosaur certainly identified from these rocks. However, previously some workers have incorrectly referred isolated teeth to Albertosaurus. It turns out that these dinosaurs cannot be distinguished by isolated teeth alone.
RKHF: What are some of the particular characteristics that make Bistahieversor unique and how do these characters compare to other known relatives of Bistahieversor?
TC: In Bistahieversor there are numerous autapomorphies, and the salient ones are described in the article. For example there is a pneumatic foramen in the lacrimal above the orbital fenestra, this opening is absent in all other tyrannosauroids; there is a single pneumatic foramen in the lateral surface of the palatine, whereas there are two in all other tyrannosauroids from the level of Appalachiosaurus on up; there are seven prongs that extend from the nasal into the frontals, whereas the usual number in tyrannosaurids is three; there is a keel formed by the angular and prearticular along the lower edge of the mandibular ramus, whereas these bones meet along a flat surface in tyrannosaurids; a deep flange extends dorsally from the lower margin of the rostral mylohyoid foramen of the splenial, whereas in other tyrannosauroids (from the level of Appalachiosaurus on up) this flange is absent; finally, there is a notch in the angular that secures the dentary, this notch is absent in tyrannosauroids from the level of Appalachiosaurus on up.
RKHF: Are there any obvious ontogenetic variations between the adult and "teenager" Bistahieversor specimens?
TC: The subadult specimen is referable to B. sealeyi based on the common possession of the supernumerary processes of the nasal that extend into the frontal and the single pneumatic opening in the palatine. As in tyrannosaurids, such as Albertosaurus libratus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Tyrannosaurus bataar, and Daspletosaurus sp., the subadult is delicately built, whereas the adult is much more massive; the internal sinuses are not inflated in the lacrimal, as they are in the adult; the lacrimal horn is small, whereas it is enlarged in the adult; and the palatine is not inflated as it is in the adult. Overall, the difference between the subadult and the adult are identical to those seen in other derived tyrannosauroids. However, some difference are not seen in tyrannosaurids, such as the subadult possessing an ectopterygoid that is inflated relative to the adult; in tyrannosaurids the reverse is true.
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Bistahieversor is coming...
Tomorrow (if not earlier) I plan to have a two-part interview with Dr. Tom Williamson and Dr. Thomas Carr on their newly published tyrannosaur, Bistahieversor. Please stay tuned!
Image courtesy David Baccadutre, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Geo Sapiens exhibit
Way back in March of last year I helped to pass on information about a Geologic Art Exhibit at the Two Wall Gallery in Vashon, Washington. It sounds like the show was a success with work from around 50 earth scientist from around the world being displayed this past November. You can view images of the art work that was displayed here. The image to the left is called Trilobite Coquina by Ancil Meacham. Be sure to check out all of the beautiful art that was submitted for the show.
Greg Wessel, a Geologist and co-curator of the Two Wall Gallery, mentioned that they plan to hold another exhibit in the future:
"We plan to host another exhibit of work done by geoscientists, Geo sapiens II, later this year. In addition, we hope to coordinate similar shows at other sites across the country and possibly overseas at about the same time, and so we invite you to help with that effort and assist with the advertising and organization of geo-art shows in your neighborhood. If you are interested in participating and helping with an exhibit in your neighborhood, let me know and we'll share ideas. I can say from personal experience that it's a LOT of fun and not nearly as much work as it seems. And you get to meet a mess of people in your profession and have a few beers with them! What could be better than that?"
I really hope they will have another show. I think it would be great to see some of this cool art, while also seeing more of the wonderful paleo-art that is out there also displayed!
Art © by Ancil Meacham
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Tracking China's Dinosaurs
Experience China and its dinosaurs!
May 12 (Wednesday) ---- 22 (Saturday), 2010 (11 days)
Type of Trip: Geotour (Paleontology)
Location: northwestern China (cities of Beijing, Xian, and Lanzhou)
Science Leaders: Andrew R. C. Milner and Hailu You
Minimum Number: 10
Maximum number: 20
Trip Overview:
Sinofossa Institute and St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site are proud to offer a unique opportunity to experience the cultural, historical, and geological wonders of China while following professional paleontologists Andrew R. C. Milner (City Paleontologist, St. George, Utah) and Dr. Hai-Lu You (Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences) to explore dinosaur footprint-bearing sites at China's first track-based national geopark in Gansu Province. Participants will also have the opportunity to visit two well-known museums holding dinosaurs in Beijing: the Beijing Natural History Museum and Chinese Paleozoological Museum; and see scenic cultural and historical attractions in Xian, where the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses are located.
Persons interested in dinosaurs and fossil birds, especially their tracks, and who desire a unique, natural history-oriented experience in China.
Tour Fee, Deposit & Payment:
US$ 2,495.00/person (double occupancy)
US$ 2,995.00/person (single occupancy)
Deposit: US$ 200.00
Deposit Deadline: February 11, 2010
Full Payment Deadline: March 11, 2010
For terms and conditions, please visit http://www.sinofossa.org/joinus-01.html.
Included in Tour Package:
- All transportation within China, including transfers between airports and hotels.
- Deluxe accommodations in Beijing and Xian, and clean, comfortable accommodations in Gansu.
- All meals and beverages.
- All tickets for sightseeing attractions throughout the trip.
- Permits required to explore for and excavate dinosaur fossils.
- All tools for fossil excavation, including gloves, brushes, and chisels for individual use, and equipment (e.g., pickaxes, shovels, spades, generators) and supplies (plaster, glues, burlap, etc.) for group use if necessary.
- English-speaking, professional leadership.
- Full pre-trip information and assistance.
Not Included in Tour Price:
- Passport and visa fees.
- International airfare.
- Travel insurance.
- Gratuities.
- Laundry.
- Optional two-day pre-trip sightseeing excursion in Beijing (see below).
Your Science Trip Leaders:
Andrew R. C. Milner
St. George City Paleontologist and SGDS Museum Curator
Andrew works with all scientific aspects of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm dealing with paleontology and geology. Other research interests in southern Utah include the paleontology of the Triassic Moenkopi and Chinle formations, the Early Jurassic Moenave, Kayenta, and Navajo formations, and the Upper Cretaceous Iron Springs Formation. Andrew also works on Late Pleistocene Champlain Sea fossils from eastern North America. He lectures, provides higher educational services such as field trips, and has been a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology since 1988. He helped establish the nation's first BLM Paleontological Site Stewardship Program in Washington County, Utah, and he continues to work with the BLM and other federal and state organizations in recording and monitoring paleontological localities in the region. In 2008, Andrew successfully co-led his first "Tracking China's Dinosaurs" geotour.
Dr. Hailu You
Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Hai-Lu's extensive knowledge on vertebrate paleontology, especially dinosaurs was gained through six years of Ph.D. study at University of Pennsylvania, as well as more than fifteen years of field and laboratory works on vertebrate fossils. As a lead scientist, Hai-Lu's recent research is focusing on two projects: in search of the new evolutionary "missing links" from the Early Cretaceous of China, and the evolution of basal horned dinosaurs, in collaborating with his colleagues from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, University of Pennsylvania, Canadian Museum of Nature, and various Chinese institutions. Hai-Lu has named nine new dinosaur genera since 2003.
Day 1, Beijing: arrival and welcome.
Feel free to arrive at any time of the day. We'll meet you at the Beijing Capital International Airport, and transfer you to your hotel. We'll celebrate your arrival with a welcome reception in the evening.
Day 2, Beijing: Beijing Natural History Museum and Chinese Paleozoological Museum.
Today, we'll visit the Beijing Natural History Museum in the morning, and the unparalleled fossil collections of the Chinese Paleozoological Museum of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in the afternoon. IVPP is one of the largest paleontological institutions in the world, and a global leader in the study of vertebrate fossils.
Feather dinosaurs and other amazing fossils in Bejing museums
Day 3, Beijing > Xian: Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses.
Today, we'll fly to Xian in the morning, and visit the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses in the afternoon.
Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses
Day 4, Xian > Lanzhou: Fossil Research and Development Center.
Today, we'll fly to Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, in the morning, and in the afternoon, visit the unique dinosaur collection of the Fossil Research and Development Center of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Geo-Exploration and Mineral Development.
In the lab at the Fossil Research and Development Center of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Geo-Exploration and Mineral Development
Days 5-9, Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark.
In these days, we'll work at the Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark, and explore the dinosaur-bearing rocks nearby*. You can spend all these days with Andrew at the footprint site, or if you like to dig, you can spend 2 of these days following Hai-Lu to dig dinosaur bones at the nearby sites. Here, a diverse and well-preserved assemblage of dinosaur (meat-eating theropod, long-necked sauropod, and plant-eating ornithopod), pterosaur, and bird tracks have been recovered from Lower Cretaceous-aged (about 130 million years ago) rocks exposed along the Yellow River (click here to see a paper on this). Several bizarre new dinosaurs have also been recently found in the same geological horizons, including the huge ornithopod Lanzhousaurus magnidens and the gigantic sauropod Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis.
Early Cretaceous sauropod tracks at the Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark study site.
We'll focus most of our attention on one footprint quarry, and help Andrew and Hai-Lu study these. Work at the site will include a detailed cleaning of the track surfaces, followed by the accurate mapping, photographing, and measuring of tracks, trackways, associated trace fossils, and sedimentary structures. Several unusual trackway features are preserved at this locality, and we have the opportunity to discover what kind of environment they were formed in and what behavioral implications of the animals they may represent. Our goal is to get as much information as possible in the field and publish our result in a peer reviewed journal.
Day 10, Lanzhou > Beijing.
Today, we'll fly back to Beijing. If time allows, we'll go shopping. We'll enjoy Peking Duck for dinner.
Day 11, Beijing: fond farewells.
We'll take you to the airport, guide you to your terminal, and share a final lunch together if you depart in the afternoon.
*According to Chinese laws, all fossils belong to the nation. Any and all specimens we collect will be permanently reposited in Chinese institutions.
Optional Pre-trip Two-day Sightseeing Excursion in Beijing:
To participate in this optional sightseeing excursion (which is not included in the tour prices listed above), please arrive in Beijing on Monday, May 10, 2010.
US$ 400.00/person (double occupancy)
US$ 500.00/person (single occupancy)
Day 1, Beijing: The Great Wall and Ming Tombs.
We'll drive north, to visit the Great Wall and Ming Tombs for the entire day.
Day 2, Beijing: The Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and Temple of Heaven.
We'll visit the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in the morning and the Temple of Heaven in the afternoon. In the evening, we'll join our other participants for dinner.
Questions? Please contact:
St. George City Paleontologist
Tel: 1-435-574-3466 ext. #2
Email: amilner@sgcity.org
Web: http://www.dinotrax.com
Hai-Lu You
Institute of Geology
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Cell (China): 86-13691587251
Email: youhailu@sinofossa.org
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Proposed Mining on Ellesmere Island
Please check out this link for important information regarding proposed mining on Ellesmere Island.
"A proposed coal mining project by Westar Resources, Inc. on Ellesmere Island (Nunavut) in Canada's eastern High Arctic is currently under review by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB), an environmental assessment agency established under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement whose objectives are to protect and promote the well-being of the residents, communities and ecosystems of Nunavut. The proposed development area includes fossil sites of a broad range of ages that include some of the most significant sites in the world, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) is deeply concerned over the possible loss of these valuable resources...."
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The Poetry of Charles H. Sternberg
I knew Charles H. Sternberg had written the books Life of a Fossil Hunter (1909) and Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada (1917). I was unaware that he had written a book of poetry in 1911 - A story of the past or The romance of science. It is such a cool compilation of poems, really a must read. Hat tip to Andy for pointing it out, and for mentioning that it is available on Google Books - so go check it out (Life of a Fossil Hunter is also available)! Below if one of my favorite poems from the book.
IN THE LARAMIE
For many years my life work ply,
And many museums supply
With the rich store from Nature's book.
On many wondrous scenes I look.
I've often wanted to explore
The graveyard of the Dinosaur,
And when the British Museum said
They'd like to own a mighty head,
The largest of the saurians dread,
Triceratops (Marsh gave the name),
To Converse County then I came.
In Wyoming's range for sheep
Are many canyons carved quite deep,
In the grey sands and beds of clay;
While haystack buttes on every side,
That often crown some high divide.
The creeks spread out in fanlike shape,
That everywhere the surface break
Into ravines, with edges steep;
While here the dead for ages sleep.
For weeks we worked the Laramie,
Those beds of sand from fossils free.
Night after night my boys come in,
And not a single fossil win.
We search out Hatcher's chosen field,
That not a single skull will yield.
At last we reach the Cheyenne brakes,
Each one a rugged canyon takes
And follows it to cedar crest.
I work on steadily with the rest.
At last one day we moved our tent;
Across the roughest ground I went,
I came to a denuded space;
O'er it my weary footsteps trace;
I stumble on a weathered horn.
I'd weeks of disappointment borne.
It is too good, I greatly fear,
To find a huge skull buried here.
We mark the place, return next day,
Remove with care the crumbling clay:
A mighty skull before us lay.
What joy to a discouraged mind
To know a skull at last we find!
But good luck does not come alone,—
George has found a pelvic bone.
Charlie and I make the long trip
To Lusk, where we our fossil ship.
When five days later we return,
I hear such news my heart strings burn
A story that George has to tell.
My pride runs high, my bosom swell,—
He's found a splendid Trachodon,
And he the prize has surely won.
"He lies now in the quarry there,
Let's quickly to the place repair."
"No," says George, "unload your duds.
For three long days we've lived on spuds,
We've worked at least twelve hours a day,
And quarried out the sandstone grey
Full fifteen feet at least in height,
Twelve feet across, from left to right.
The floor is over ten feet deep,
In center lies, as if asleep,
The carcass of our Trachodon.
And so, you see, the prize I've won."
"That's not all," cries the eager boy,
"I know your heart will break for joy,
The glory of this specimen—
He lies there as he floated in
With bloated body on the wave.
The gas escapes he found his grave,
As he sinks to his long rest,
Skin clinging fast to bone and breast.
A long and lingering death he'd died,
His flesh had all been atrophied.
He surely has been starved to death,
His skin to all the bones is prest,
And within abdominal walls,
Like a great curtain there it falls.
While carcass rides upon the tide,
The head is pressed to the left side;
As in the sands his body's laid,
His arms stretch out imploring aid."
I scarce can wait until with ease
The boys their hunger can appease.
With haste our eager footsteps take
To bed of the old Laramie lake,
To where the mighty carcass lay,
As if he'd died but yesterday.
I raise a high exultant sound,
The crags and canyons echo round.
"Thank God, thank God, I'm paid at last
For days of toil, for dangers past!"
Now, Science had a mighty store
Found by collectors long before,
Of this great reptile Trachodon.
"What has this great discovery done
To advance science?" you will ask.
To tell you it will be my task.
It was supposed they lived on land,
On pillars strong he used to stand,
With short front limbs, and hands to grasp,
He held the swinging branches fast;
While duck-bill nipt the foliage green
That passed along his jaws between,
Where full two thousand teeth are seen
Arranged in perpendicular line,
Diagonally, too, one at a time.
Alternate teeth could wear quite thin
While other teeth were coming in.
A monstrous tail—one would suppose,
With hind limbs, like a tripod rose.
Of course attention must be lent
To the huge beast's environment;
And tyrant of the Laramie
Who preyed on reptiles such as he.
His body was in armour clad.
I must confess it made me glad
To learn from this my trophy grand,
He Lived In Water, not on land.
His feet were webbed, and his thin skin
Was blotched with scales, both small and thin.
His mighty body shines and pales,
Lined by rosettes and little scales.
His mighty tail of fifteen feet,
Like the propellers of a fleet.
A length of thirty feet he spanned—
A wondrous creature, and so grand.
His duck-billed head three feet in length.
His neck shows well his sinewy strength,
No carapace on dorsal spines,
But osseous tendons pack the lines
In muscles dense, on either side;
Like straddle-boards on roof they ride.
His hind limbs, full eight feet in length,
Are strongly built, of mighty strength.
With ease he stems the rising tide,
And swims to pastures on the side
Of shallow streams, whose waters glide
Through the green rush and shining reed.
And here our reptile stops to feed.
He plants hind feet in sand below,
While rushing by the waters flow.
In solemn grandeur there he stood
And gathered armsful of rich food.
Then chops it off with duck-bill strong,
While muscles pass it fast along
Where teeth like scissors shred the mass,
That into a great stomach pass.
A half a ton, I'd say, or more,
Has passed in through that open door
Before his appetite appease.
He's finished breakfast, if you please.
Now watch him as his way he'll take
To the smooth surface of the lake.
His limbs in unison, they beat
The gurgling waters 'neath his feet.
The tail, in undulations strong,
Urges the heavy mass along.
He's gaining speed. Oh, see how fast
The foam is rising on the blast!
His body now is hid from sight
Beneath the foaming waters white.
He's gaining distance: see arise
A great white column to the skies,
Like smoke in fighting ship's broad wake;
The foam marks out the course he'll take.
But now to work; I'll dream no more.
Our work lies in the old lake's floor.
How will we get our saurian safe,
Is the great problem we must face.
The mighty fossil it will prove
A trying task for us to move.
We first take off the arms and head;
They're heavy, and they weigh like lead.
The body now we cut in two,
Cover with starch and paper too;
While yards of cloth the parts enfold,
Which, dipped in plaster, forms a mold
That soon becomes as hard as stone.
It well protects the brittle bone.
Two thousand pounds each section weigh,
Like chunks of iron there they lay.
We're only four, my sons and I.
To move these masses we will try.
But first of all, strong boxes make;
Then each his sharpened shovel take
And cut some grass to pack around
This specimen that we have found.
We build a platform for the skull,
And to it now our wagons pull.
A section then we get around,
With levers lift it from the ground.
We build beneath with rocky blocks,
And get it in the box at last,
Which we roll in the wagon, too;—
Repeat the process till we're through.
Now you might think our labor done:
Dear friends, it's only just begun.
We hitch four horses,—"Please don't talk."
Half up the hill those horses balk;
They back the wagon in a ditch;
They will not pull. So we unhitch.
Then to the nearest ranch I go—
Full twenty miles from camp, I know.
What if a rain should flood the ditch
And in the Cheyenne River pitch
This load to me worth more than gold?
"The ranchman's busy," so I'm told.
He would not stop his work one day
For all the bones on earth, they say.
I find a man who owns a team
Who'd gladly go, so it would seem,
To help me in my direst need.
So off they go with all their speed,
For Levi had come on with me,
And went to show the road, you see.
In passing I might simply say
He only charged three dollars a day.
"We're out the woods; now I can talk"-
Alas! he knew his team would balk.
So full three days all squandered they.
The man got his three dollars a day.
At last George finds a man and team
Who'd do their duty, so 'twould seem.
And so we reach the platform floor
Beside the railroad station door.
Sternberg, Charles Hazelius. 1911. In the Laramie. Pages 80-87 in A story of the past or The romance of science. Sherman, French and Company - Boston.
Images from:
Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1916. Integument of the Iguanodont Dinosaur Trachodon. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1: 38 and Plate V. Images hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
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Where did it get that name?
Every now and then (especially at work) I am asked:
"Why is a formation named that?"
"How did that formation get its name?"
"Is that [town/landmark/place] named for the formation?"
"Where is the original [or type] location for that formation?"
All interesting questions!
The US Geological Survey maintains a great resource online - the GEOLEX, or "Geologic Names Lexicon." You can use this site to search for the answers to questions like the ones above, and many other things! It is a great resource I utilized when working on paleontological resource reports for the National Park Service over the past four years.
There have been two of these questions recently brought up on the Dinosaur Mailing List (or DML). The first asked about the origins of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation:
"When was the Morrison Formation named? It was named after the town and not vice versa, right?" [link]
Great question!
Dr. Tom Holtz gives a great explanation:
"Yes, the Formation is named after the town. Standard stratigraphic practice is to name a formation or other lithostratigraphic unit after a geographic locality (typically a town) near the stratotype section (the lithostratigraphic equivalent to a holotype specimen)." [DML link][USGS link]
Another great question was asked the next day:
Does anyone know how the Dewey Bridge Formation got its name (was there an actual bridge? where? when was it named?)? [link]
This one was easy for me, as Dewey Bridge is less than an hour from my house and I drive by it often when I go to Moab, Utah. It is off Highway 128 and crosses the Colorado River.
So I went to the GEOLEX website to see when it was named and to see if it was indeed named for this particular bridge. The entry reads:
"Usage: Dewey Bridge Member of Entrada Sandstone (CO*,UT*)...Type section: measured near Dewey Bridge, near center of sec. 8, T. 23 S., R. 24 E., Grand Co., CO (Wright and others, 1962)." [link]
There is a Grand County, Colorado, but I am not familiar with a Dewey Bridge there. Oddly enough, the Dewey Bridge in Utah is also in Grand County, which got me to thinking there might be a mistake. So I went back to the USGS, this time looking at their Map Locator tool in the store area. I typed "Dewey Bridge" into the search box provided and *bam!* it takes me to Grand County, Utah. Not yet fully convinced, I click on the Dewey Quadrangle the locator found and download the quad. When I zoom into the Dewey Bridge area (see picture below), sure enough, the locality information given by the USGS matches. So I think, in this one small case, there is a tiny, but easily fixed and figured out, mistake on the USGS page.
Another way I could have done it was just to look for the Entrada Formation on the geologic map of Colorado in Grand County, but the only Jurassic I saw there upon quick look is Morrison Formation. I know from personal observation that the Entrada Formation is present in the Dewey Bridge area of Grand County, Utah. While the USGS recognizes the Dewey Bridge as the oldest member of the Entrada Formation in this area, the Utah Geological Survey includes it in the underlying Carmel Formation (it seems to vary between the two depending on you you talk to).
Picture from the Grand County, Utah webpage, photo Courtesy of Rim Rock Road Runners
Some fun info about Dewey Bridge (pictured above) - it was built in 1916 and at that time connected this then remote portion of Utah with Grand Junction, Colorado, the areas largest city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was also the longest suspension bridge in Utah until its destruction. On April 6, 2008, a six year old boy who was playing with matches at a nearby campground accidentally set the bridge, and surrounding area, on fire (read the full account here). The county is now in the process of raising funds to restore the bridge [link to more information].
Picture from the Grand County, Utah webpage, of the April 6, 2008, fire at Dewey Bridge.
A picture I took this summer (August 25, 2009) of what is left of Dewey Bridge with the Entrada Sandstone in the background.
I hope these two tools, the USGS map locator and GEOLEX, are either something you already knew about and get use from or will help you to answer your own geologic questions someday!
Post and images © ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster, unless otherwise stated. Thanks to Tom Holtz and Donna for permission to use their quotes.
Labels: Dewey Bridge, Dewey Bridge Member, Dinosaur Mailing List, Entrada Formation, GEOLEX, Grand County, Morrison Formation, Tom Holtz, USGS, Utah
The Secret Language of Elephants
This is a really interesting piece that aired tonight on 60 Minutes. Thinking about how elephants communicate started a whole thought process in my head on how other large herbivores (prehistoric in my mind) may have communicated. There are also a few long shots of the elephants at a watering hole that made me wonder if sauropods, for example, would of had large trails leading to and from water sources. Fun to think what it would have been like in the late Jurassic :)
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Q: How to create a kafka stream in PySpark? I'm trying to create a kafka stream and then do some transformations on that but It seems the stream that I create is null. I load a text file into producer then consume it through consumer and It works fine but it doesn't create the kafka stream.
The input text file looks like this with 36000 entries:
10.000000
26.000000
-8.000000
-28.000000
...

And my python code is:
sc = SparkContext(appName="STALTA")
ssc = StreamingContext(sc, 2)
broker, topic = sys.argv[1:]
kvs = KafkaUtils.createStream(ssc, broker, "raw-event-streaming-consumer",{topic:1})
rdd = kvs.flatMap(lambda line: line.strip().split("\n")).map(lambda strelem: float(strelem))
print("****** ", rdd.count())
ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()

rdd.count() should print 36000 but it's empty.
The command that I run my script with is the following:
bin/spark-submit --jars jars/spark-streaming-kafka-0-8-assembly_2.11-2.3.1.jar examples/src/main/python/streaming/sparkkafka.py localhost:2181 consumer6

I tried localhost:9092 also but it didn't work.
Do you know what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you.

A: I think you should change the broker to the zookeeper IP, usually it's localhost:2181 because it required the zookeeper IP not the kafka IP.
For the question to print the DStream, you could directly print with kvs.pprint() usually it will print like a tupple of rdd. Don't use the print() its not recognized by the sparkstreaming as output command so you will get those error.
Error : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requirement failed: No output operations registered, so nothing to execute

Hope this will help you.