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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"Gangloff makes both modern and ancient Alaska come alive for the armchair palaeontologist far from the madding bugs. He praises volunteers who visited the remote northern site to dig dinosaur bones from a layer of soft rock deposited by an ancient flood... It's a fascinating story, but far from complete. Now retired, Gangloff exhorts the new generation: "Go north young men and women, the field is wide open and there is so much to be discovered." - --Jeff Hecht, The New Scientist, June 9th 2012
"Whether it is the logistics of conducting fieldwork in tune with the life cycle of the peregrine falcons on the McKenzie River, extracting bones from the permafrost, dealing with Arctic mosquitoes, or envisioning the high Arctic world during the Cretaceous, Gangloff takes you there as only a true field paleontologist can. His vivid narrative brings this research to life." --Jim Kirkland, State Paleontologist of Utah
"Whether it is the logistics of conducting fieldwork in tune with the life cycle of the peregrine falcons on the McKenzie River, extracting bones from the permafrost, dealing with Arctic mosquitoes, or envisioning the high Arctic world during the Cretaceous, Gangloff takes you there as only a true field paleontologist can. His vivid narrative brings this research to life." --Jim Kirkland, State Paleontologist of Utah
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Roland A. Gangloff is Emeritus Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics and former Curator of Earth Science at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He is presently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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A serious pleasure
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By Charles J. Hardy
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As a peer reviewer I recognize a careful, scholarly work when I see one. I rarely read one in which the author's pleasure in doing cold, dirty, painstaking work shines through so nicely.The title (Dinosaurs Under the Aurora) is a tip-off.
If you are a paleontologist who will not blink at this punctilious process, adding knowledge about a blizzard of taxonomy, you will be right at home in this. If it's all new to you it won't be when you finish but you will enjoy the experience as much as the author does.
I bought this from Amazon instead of the university bookstore because it saved me the cold, dirty trip.
If you are a paleontologist who will not blink at this punctilious process, adding knowledge about a blizzard of taxonomy, you will be right at home in this. If it's all new to you it won't be when you finish but you will enjoy the experience as much as the author does.
I bought this from Amazon instead of the university bookstore because it saved me the cold, dirty trip.
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The book was wordy and boring. The book obviously needed a good editor. The book used only scientific names and for someone that is not a paleologist the names were confusing and didn't help with the understanding of the findings. It seemed as if the book could have been half as long and been interesting but the same information was given over and over again. There could have been more maps and or pictures which would have brought it to life but there was few of each. I would not recommend this book to anyone except a most ardent paleologist.
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