The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time

摘要: The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by sparse community. But during early Eocene, more than fifty million years ago, it was subtropical lake, surrounded volcanoes forests teeming life. Buried within sun-baked limestone spectacular evidence lush vegetation plentiful fauna ancient past, transitional ecosystem giving us clues to how North America recovered from great extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs majority all species on planet. Paleontologists have been conducting excavations at Butte for 150 years, "The Lost World Lake", one world's leading experts fossils this locality takes readers fascinating journey through history discovery exploration site. Deftly mixing incredible color photographs remarkable uncovered there an explanation their evolutionary significance, Lance Grande presents unprecedented, comprehensive portrait site, its treasures, what we've learned them. broad range fossilized organisms Lake - single-celled algae palm trees crocodiles together they make long-extinct community come life in diversity splendor. A field guide atlas round book, enabling identify classify known Lavishly produced full color, Lake" stunning reminder intellectual physical beauty scientific investigation-and breathtaking window onto our planet's long-lost past.