Hell S Creek

Author : Dr. Lowell Dingus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250092526

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Hell Creek, Montana by Dr. Lowell Dingus Pdf

"Given its wide range, this book should attract readers of history and lovers of the American West in addition to dinosaur junkies. " - Publishers Weekly Hell Creek, Montana, is one of the most windswept, hardscrabble locales in the American West-a quiet town of ranchers, farmers, and others who seek the beauty of the open spaces. It is also the unlikely setting of some of the most fascinating events in the history of the United States and North America. From the first-ever discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex to Lewis and Clark's landmark expedition; from the Freeman compound standoff to Sitting Bull and Little Big Horn, Hell Creek has been a central player in the events of the last two hundred years-and the last 200 million. Now, with grace and quiet wit, renowned paleontologist and writer Lowell Dingus takes us on a tour of this desolate, beautiful, out-of-the-way place and illuminates its inhabitants, geology, paleontology, and surprising place in history. Nature lovers, dinosaur buffs, and people fascinated with the turbulent history--both ancient and modern--of the American West will find much to delight them in this journey to Hell Creek.

Author : Joseph Herbert Hartman,Kirk R. Johnson,Douglas J. Nichols
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813723612

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The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains by Joseph Herbert Hartman,Kirk R. Johnson,Douglas J. Nichols Pdf

Author : Gregory P. Wilson,William A. Clemens,John R. Horner,Joseph H. Hartman
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813725031

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Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas by Gregory P. Wilson,William A. Clemens,John R. Horner,Joseph H. Hartman Pdf

"The chapters represent a surge of field and laboratory research activity, illustrating the impacts of new and refined methods and tools. This volume explores geologic and biologic history preserved in the strata bounding the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tom Parker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781789095050

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Saurian - A Field Guide to Hell Creek by Tom Parker Pdf

A gorgeous, scientifically up-to-date exploration of the prehistoric world, written and illustrated by leading palaeontologists. Enter the beautiful world of Hell Creek in prehistoric North America. Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek offers an elegant factual guide to the prehistoric world of the successful indie survival game Saurian. Created in close conference with some of the leading palaeontologists and paleoartists, this is a beautiful, detailed exploration of the creatures and environment of this stunning game, perfect for all fans of dinosaurs and paleoart.

Author : Patrick Fox
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469729671

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Hell's Creek by Patrick Fox Pdf

After Bill Banes is killed in a spectacular but mysterious car bombing in England, O'Toole volunteers to go to London to bring back his friend's remains. Before he knows it, he's involved in a many-leveled conspiracy that becomes much more complicated than the murder it initially appeared to be. O'Toole follows up on the one consistency in the sketchy chain of evidence: Bill Banes' continuing fascination with a 1978 earthquake in the western United States. From the hundred mile visibilities at the peaks of the Little Belt Mountains, to the subterranean murk of the Lombard Fault in Western Montana, he is once again up to his ears in trouble, straying far beyond his jurisdiction as an employee of Structurethe small and super-secret agency that does the jobs that are too sensitive for the CIA and the FBIand proving yet again that no good deed goes unpunished. With the aid of Elmer Linthacum, who runs a small town Exxon station, and Becky Sparling, the loving daughter of a multimillionaire cattle rancher who has interests that go beyond his fourteen thousand acres, O'Toole manages to unravel the mystery and avoid getting sewn upor blown upin the process.

Author : L. M. Graziano,M. S. A. Graziano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1412092388

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Hell Creek by L. M. Graziano,M. S. A. Graziano Pdf

A cataclysmic error in a physics experiment hurls four-and-a-half people and a dog backward in time to a dinosaur-infested wilderness, 65 million years in the past.

Author : Michael S. A. Graziano,L. M. Graziano
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459601185

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Cretaceous Dawn by Michael S. A. Graziano,L. M. Graziano Pdf

A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people and do they want to?

Author : Colin Jerolmack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691241425

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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell by Colin Jerolmack Pdf

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet—whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the very land beneath our feet—is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public's consent. The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend "up to heaven and down to hell," which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards but can also cause irreparable harm to neighbors, to communal resources like air and water, and even to oneself. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell casts America’s ideas about freedom and property rights in a troubling new light, revealing how your personal choices can undermine your neighbors’ liberty, and how the exercise of individual rights can bring unintended environmental consequences for us all.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400849314

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Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor Pdf

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.

Author : Dean R. Lomax,Robert Nicholls
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231552080

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Locked in Time by Dean R. Lomax,Robert Nicholls Pdf

Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures—how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and breathed? From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth’s past. Locked in Time showcases fifty of the most astonishing fossils ever found, brought together in five fascinating chapters that offer an unprecedented glimpse at the real-life behaviors of prehistoric animals. Dean R. Lomax examines the extraordinary direct evidence of fossils captured in the midst of everyday action, such as dinosaurs sitting on their eggs like birds, Jurassic flies preserved while mating, a T. rex infected by parasites. Each fossil, he reveals, tells a unique story about prehistoric life. Many recall behaviors typical of animals familiar to us today, evoking the chain of evolution that links all living things to their distant ancestors. Locked in Time allows us to see that fossils are not just inanimate objects: they can record the life stories of creatures as fully alive as any today. Striking and scientifically rigorous illustrations by renowned paleoartist Bob Nicholls bring these breathtaking moments to life.

Author : Grace Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803251076

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Home Below Hell's Canyon by Grace Jordan Pdf

During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is valuable because it writes a little-known way of life into the national chronicle. We are put in touch with the kind of people who set the country on its feet and in the generations since have kept it there. . . . Primarily it is a book of courage and effort tempered by the warmth of those who trust in goodness and practice it."-Christian Science Monitor "The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life."-Seattle Post Intelligencer

Author : Barrie C. Bartulski
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462041107

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Where the Hell Is Turtle Creek? by Barrie C. Bartulski Pdf

In Where the Hell Is Turtle Creek? author Barrie Bartulski presents his honest and sometimes humorous memoir of his childhood in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. He paints a portrait of a happy, unique childhood complete with mean teachers and close buddies. These stories capture the adventures of a group of children, from mixed ethnic and religious backgrounds, growing up in the 1940s and 50s in Turtle Creek, a small town in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Most of the stories take place around Turtle Creeks Saint Colmans Catholic elementary school and the public junior and senior high school. The discipline administered by a few of the Sisters of Mercy at Saint Colmans School was overly aggressive and would not happen today with the special training that teachers now receive. Bartulski shares it to illustrate an area that was much on the minds of children in those days. The Catholic Church has since banned all paddlingwonderful news but a little late for him and his pals. He has lovingly captured a lost time, the time when a boy could be carefree and be mostly concerned about what games he and his pals were going to play that day. They are memories to be cherished and experienced time and time again, winningly recounted in Where the Hell is Turtle Creek?

Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Robert M. Sullivan
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior by Spencer G. Lucas,Robert M. Sullivan Pdf

Author : Keri Arthur
Publisher : KA Publishing PTY LTD
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648007760

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Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur Pdf

Author : Todd Keisling
Publisher : Cemetery Dance Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1587678594

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Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling Pdf

About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil's Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices-a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. And like most legends, there's truth buried among the roots and bones. In 1983, the church burned to the ground following a mass suicide. Among the survivors were Jacob's six children and their grandparents, who banded together to defy their former minister. Dubbed the "Stauford Six," these children grew up amid scrutiny and ridicule, but their infamy has faded over the last thirty years. Now their ordeal is all but forgotten, and Jacob Masters is nothing more than a scary story told around campfires. For Jack Tremly, one of the Six, memories of that fateful night have fueled a successful art career-and a lifetime of nightmares. When his grandmother Imogene dies, Jack returns to Stauford to settle her estate. What he finds waiting for him are secrets Imogene kept in his youth, secrets about his father and the church. Secrets that can no longer stay buried. The roots of Jacob's buried god run deep, and within the heart of Devil's Creek, something is beginning to stir... Blurbs: "Todd Keisling's DEVILS CREEK is the kind of book you have to read with your lights on. Hell, make sure your neighbors have their lights on too!" - S.A. Cosby, New York Times best-selling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland "Devil's Creek is an epic novel about small town evil that will touch your heart as it seizes it with fear. Once again, Todd Keisling has proven himself a master storyteller." - Brian Kirk, Brian Kirk, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of We Are Monsters and Will Haunt You