Wyoming Dinosaur Marbles
Nov 4, 2021 16:02:25 GMT -5
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Geology of Dinosaur Marbles
Geologic features are often given descriptive non-scientific names by local people. Spheroid-shaped stones have been erroneously interpreted as fossil plant, animal or alien lifeforms. Terms like seed pod, dinosaur egg or an extraterrestrial cocoon have been applied. Sometimes they resemble marbles, golf balls, shot-puts, bowling balls or cannon balls depending on their shape and size. They have also been attributed to a race of giants, with legendary character names added such as Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill.
Not to be outdone by non-professionals, we call the spheroid-shaped features seen on the north nose of the Thermopolis Anticline, "Dinosaur marbles." They are concretions developed in the Late Cretaceous Frontier Formation. This formation was deposited near the end of the age of dinosaurs.
Geologic features are often given descriptive non-scientific names by local people. Spheroid-shaped stones have been erroneously interpreted as fossil plant, animal or alien lifeforms. Terms like seed pod, dinosaur egg or an extraterrestrial cocoon have been applied. Sometimes they resemble marbles, golf balls, shot-puts, bowling balls or cannon balls depending on their shape and size. They have also been attributed to a race of giants, with legendary character names added such as Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill.
Not to be outdone by non-professionals, we call the spheroid-shaped features seen on the north nose of the Thermopolis Anticline, "Dinosaur marbles." They are concretions developed in the Late Cretaceous Frontier Formation. This formation was deposited near the end of the age of dinosaurs.
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