Tag: Arizona
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The Poozeum in Williams, Arizona
Atlas Obscura has a story about the opening of a new museum in Williams, Arizona. It’s dedicated to the study of coprolites, which is fossilized poop. Dinosaurs did it, birds do it, bees do it, fish do it… even we do it, all animals do it. Mazon Creek coprolites are fairly common. So, what does…
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Throwback Thursday #175: Erosion… Piece By Piece
This is Throwback Thursday #175. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The Petrified Forest National Park is a beautiful place, located in Arizona. If you get a chance to…
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Throwback Thursday #143: Looking Back at ESCONI for January 2023
This is Throwback Thursday #143. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – January 1998 50 Years Ago – January 1973 70 Years Ago – January 1953
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NatGeo: ‘Jurassic Park’ got almost everything wrong about this iconic dinosaur
National Geographic has a post about the “best worst-known” dinosaur – Dilophosaurus. Adam Marsh, a paleontologist at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, led an effort to redescribe Dilophosaurus. That paper was published recently in the Journal of Paleontology. Now, the new analysis includes two previously unstudied fossil specimens from Arizona, providing the first…
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Copper Mining in the News
Arizona Geology clues us into two recent articles about copper mining in Arizona. Image: Photos above by Lee Allison, Director of AZGS and Arizona State Geologist via the Arizona Geological Survey. The article with this photograph provides an interesting discussion about the geology of Arizona copper.
