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The Great Alaskan Dinosaur Adventure, John Whitmore, Buddy Davis, Mike Liston

Faculty Books

FIVE SOULS, huddled against the aching cold of the Alaskan wilderness. On a hunt for truth amid the shrieks of wild animals, the clouds, overhead race swiftly by?. Adventures from left to right: Mike Liston, Buddy Davis, Dan Specht, George Detwiler, and John Whitmore.

LOCKED in a remote, frozen wasteland where man has rarely been lie remains of creatures so mysterious, science can scarcely believe the truth.

A team of scientists and researchers endured incredible hardships to reach a site many would rather avoid?the Alaskan wilderness?and in the process, uncovered unfossilized dinosaur bones. The implications are enormous, for how can …

Submarine Sand Resources, Southeastern Virginia - Contributions From Year Nine And Year Ten Of Virginia’S Continental Margins Program, Carl Hobbs Iii, C. Scott Hardaway Jr., C. R. Berquist

VIMS Books and Book Chapters

Virginia’s Year-Nine and Year-Ten funds from the Continental Shelf Program were used to supplement other work funded by the Minerals Management Service in an ongoing Cooperative Agreement focused on the area offshore of southeastern Virginia. Year-Nine and Year-Ten funds facilitated interpretation of subbottom profiles and the analysis of sediment samples from cores and grabs. On Virginia’s sediment-starved continental shelf, deposits of material potentially suitable for use as beach nourishment or, perhaps, as construction aggregate occur in three stratigraphic settings, each with specific characteristics of morphology, grain-size gradients, likelihood of discovery, and physical ease of exploitation. All must be verified with …