Sunday, July 29, 2012

Nic with Dilophosaurus Footprint

Nic shows us the true size of dino footprints.
Nic traveled with us on an Antelope Canyon Photo Tour in Northern Arizona.

The imprints were made by a one ton, twenty foot long, meat-eating dinosaur. The slab of sandstone came from a side canyon at Lake Powell... near Page, Arizona. When Dilophosaurus tracked through th silt 170 million years ago, this was a different landscape than today's desert. Shallow streams meandered across a marshy plain. Throughout Glen Canyon the red-orange layer of kayenta sandstone appears - a lost world turned to stone, then river-cut and weathered into view.

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