Road Trippin And White Water Rafting Utah With KUTV On The Green River
Dinosaur River Expeditions white water rafting, kayaking and stand up paddle boarding with KUTV news and Casey Scott's weekly Road Trippin segment. The Green River is an amazing stetch of river for families, friends, groups or the adventrous solo traveler. The Green River has fun class 2 to 4 rapids that thrill like no other. Dinosaur River Expeditions has the best guides, great food and excellent gear. Check out our Green River daily raft trip or our premier four and five day Green River and Yampa River trips. Give us a call and book your trip today. 1-800-345-RAFT (7238)
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Fossil Discovery Trail, Dinosaurs, Fossils
Green River Utah Sept 2 2017 with ADRIFT adventures Rafting DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT
A family rafting day.. Utah rafting at its best on a one-day Green River rafting adventure through the Split Mountain Gorge. Visit the land of dinosaurs, wild geologic folding and colorful canyon history in Dinosaur National Monument. Challenge class III rapids like Moonshine, S.O.B., Schoolboy and Englesby – first encountered and named by the famous explorer John Wesley Powell.
DINOSAUR QUARRY IN VERNAL UTAH
Split Mountain Gorge River Rafting with Adrift Adventures - Vernal, Utah
Rapids begin around 3:27 and 5:00 or so. Rafting on the Green River around Split Mountain Gorge. Taken on June 12, 2016. River was running around 20,000 cfs.
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Camp time fun on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument Gates of Lodore river rafting trip. Paco Pad Sumo Wrestling.
Finding Old Dinosaur Bones // Vernal, Utah // Travelling Family of 5
Northeast Utah is chock full of old dinosaur bones. We explore Dinosaur National Monument, then get blown out of town - literally.
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Dinosaur Pictograph! in UTAH? Kachina Bridge
Is there a dinosaur pictograph in UTAH? Join Aaron Judkins as he travels to Utah to Investigate a dinosaur pictograph under Kachina Bridge. What is this strange & BIZARRE pictograph? Why is there a Native American WARRIOR pictograph next to it? Did the FREEMONT Indians see a living, long-tailed dinosaur?
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America West: Dinosaur National Monument (Utah)
Paleontologist Earl Douglas discovered and began excavating the fossils found on this site in 1909, digging for the Carnegie Museum. In 1915 the Carnegie Quarry's world-class bones of the late-Jurassic dinosaurs were protected in 8-acre Dinosaur National Monument. In today's 210,000-acre national monument one can explore the quarry and the scenic and historic Green and Yampa Rivers -- their canyons, mountains, basins, and archeological sites -- and 23 colorful layers of the Colorado Plateau. The greatly varied rock and soil types combine with elevation and topography to create many habitats with a startling diversity of plant and animal life.
The dinosaur quarry is in a rock layer, the Morrison Formation, whose fossils were deposited in so many environments that scientists can reconstruct how the area looked 150 million years ago. About 5 million years ago, rivers began carving today's deep canyons exposing the those many layers and bringing to light the fossilized remains of the early inhabitants of this region. The Dinosaur Exhibit Hall is a shining example of what existed, and perished, in that long-ago era and for the discovery of natural extinction as experienced by today's visitors.
Green River Backwater Survey 2011
Surveying sandbars and backwaters of the Green River in September 2011. Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Utah, near Vernal. Modeling backwater habitat of endangered fish species.
Canyon Pintado National Historic District Pictographs And Ruins - Rangely, Colorado
Canyon Pintado is one of those lucky accidental finds. I was heading north from Moab, Utah to Vernal, Utah and decided to take Highway 139 in western Colorado simply because I hadn't traveled that route before.
Canyon Pintado National Historic District follows Highway 139 for several miles south of Rangely, Colorado. There are a number of pictograph, petroglyph and ruins sites in the district, some of which are easily accessible on short walks from highway parking areas. The rock art was likely by people of the Fremont or Ute cultures who lived and hunted in the region over the last 1400 years.
The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition passed through the canyon in 1776 as it looked for a route to California and named it Canyon Pintado, or Painted Canyon, because of all the pictographs.
The Photos (in order)
W09A1536 - The Guardian is one of the pictographs at the Waving Hands Site
W09A1535 - The Waving Hands Site is named for this pictograph
U11A0377 - A short hike at East Fourmile Draw leads to this rock formation known as the Sun Dagger
U11A0380 - These pictographs are located below the Sun Dagger; shadows from the Sun Dagger overhang intersect with the circles and spiral pictographs in specific ways at the time of both the summer and winter solstices, suggesting that these pictographs have a astronomical calendar function
U11A0353 - The Toadstools are among the named rock features along the route through Canyon Pintado
W09A1545 - The White Birds pictograph site
U11A0341 - The ruins atop Lookout Point are one of a number of small ruins sites that appear to have been lookout stations along the canyon
U11A0343 - View from Lookout Point south into Canyon Pintado
Acrocanthosaurus Dinosaur footprints on the South San Gabiel
Dinosaur footprints on the South San Gabriel River, Leander TX
Park on south side of 183, walk up river to first bend.
Footprints speculated to have been from a very rare carnivorous dinosaur called an Acrocanthosaurus, 100 million years ago.
Jurassic Carmel Formation - The Rocks of Utah
In this episode of the Rocks of Utah we explore the Jurassic Carmel Formation. The Rocks of Utah is a YouTube series that explores the unique geology of Utah, and hosted by Benjamin Burger a geology professor at Utah State University Uintah Basin Campus in Vernal, Utah.
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Fossils collected in this episode did not require a permit to collect.
Trip to Wyoming to Collect Eocene Fossils
I am a paleontologist at Utah State University, Uintah Basin Campus.
This is a quick video I made of my trip in 2016 to collect fossils in my research area in Southwest Wyoming in the Washakie A beds.
Research was conducted under BLM paleontology research permit PA13-WY-205 with the Department of Interior. All fossils will be accessible at the Utah Field House Museum State Park collection in Vernal, Utah as part of USU's teaching and research program in the geology department.
Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of 337,000 km2 within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona. About 90% of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries: the Green, San Juan, and Little Colorado.
The Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with scattered areas of forests. In the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Much of the Plateau's landscape is related, in both appearance and geologic history, to the Grand Canyon. The nickname Red Rock Country suggests the brightly colored rock left bare to the view by dryness and erosion. Domes, hoodoos, fins, reefs, goblins, river narrows, natural bridges, and slot canyons are only some of the additional features typical of the Plateau.
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Green River June 2012
Rafting the Gates of Lodore on the Green River through Dinosaur National Monument
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Floating Through the Gates Of Lodore With National Parks Traveler
The Green River flows through the Gates of Lodore and into the canyons of Dinosaur National Monument in northern Utah and western Colorado.
A Timeline of Dinosaur Discoveries
In this video we arrange chronologically the key events in the history dinosaur paleontology.
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Dinosaur footprints @ Red Rocks
Pretty old area in the US