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In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist unknowingly found the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs under the Aurora immerses readers in the challenges, stark beauty, and hard-earned rewards of conducting paleontological field work in the Arctic. Roland A. Gangloff recounts the significant discoveries of field and museum research on Arctic dinosaurs, most notably of the last 25 years when the remarkable record of dinosaurs from Alaska was compiled. This research has changed the way we think about dinosaurs and their world. Examining long-standing controversies, such as the end-Cretaceous extinction of dinosaurs and whether dinosaurs were residents or just seasonal visitors to polar latitudes, Gangloff takes readers on a delightful and instructive journey into the world of palaeontology as it is conducted in the land under the aurora.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Palaeontology

• Full title: Dinosaurs under the Aurora
• Author: Roland A. Gangloff
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780253000804
• ISBN: 0253000807
• ID: 04869764
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 616 g
• Dimensions: 260 × 177 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. July 2012

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