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The most significant impact on the natural condition of the nominated site is the collection of fossil-bearing limestone by palaeontological researchers.
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Research undertaken by palaeontologists involves the removal of fossil-bearing limestone from the nominated site under permit.
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At the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, a sheet of glacial ice 600m thick eroded the upper layers of rock, and huge meltwater rivers carved the Red Deer river valley with its badlands of coulees, mesas and buttes, out of the soft rock, exposing this great concentration of fossil-bearing sediments.
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The fossil-bearing strata here contain some of the oldest known dinosaur remains and document the transition from Early Triassic mammalian ancestors to the age of dinosaur dominance in the Late Triassic.
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The fossil-bearing outcrops in the Upper Las Vegas Wash represent the very last opportunity to study these amazing fossils, their ancient environments, and their prehistory.
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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No other fossil-bearing site in the American southwest tracks this critical time period.
Tule Springs Ice Age Park Development ReBecca Foster 2008
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No other fossil-bearing site in the American southwest tracks this critical time period.
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The fossil-bearing outcrops in the Upper Las Vegas Wash represent the very last opportunity to study these amazing fossils, their ancient environments, and their prehistory.
Tule Springs Ice Age Park Development ReBecca Foster 2008
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In seemingly scholarly journals a plethora of paleontologists and geologists — or people who claim to be such — are turning out articles aiming to call into question the theory of the primeval soup, to recalculate the age of Earth and the solar system, to discover the remains of Noah's ark, to date with carbon-14 the fossil-bearing layers, or to discover the "actual date" of the Flood.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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In seemingly scholarly journals a plethora of paleontologists and geologists — or people who claim to be such — are turning out articles aiming to call into question the theory of the primeval soup, to recalculate the age of Earth and the solar system, to discover the remains of Noah's ark, to date with carbon-14 the fossil-bearing layers, or to discover the "actual date" of the Flood.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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