 Dinosaur Tracks in St. George Earthcache
A cache by dino_hunters Hidden: 9/13/2005
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What other animals left their tracks behind, besides the Dinosaurs?
You'll have to keep your eyes open, because they were probably not
as big as the Dinosaurs were.
This Earthcache is the site of Jurassic aged dinosaur tracks.
The site is open Monday - Saturday, 10AM-8PM in the summer, and
10AM-6PM in the Winter. Admission is $6 for adults & $3 for
children 4 and up.
The dinosaur tracks at this site are made in Sandstones and
Mudstones in the Jurassic Moenave Formation. They were deposited
on, and near the shore of a freshwater lake. This site contains
more "swimming" type tracks than at any other site in the world.
This site also contains one of only two known tracks made from a
theropod (Meat Eating Dinosaur) that was sitting. This site also
contains the largest single dinosaur track block in the world.
The trackway from the "Sitting" dinosaur contains not only the
imprints of the toes (tarsals) but also the metatarsals (in the
sole of the foot). The imprint of the pubis bone is also evident,
as are marks from the dinosaurs hand. This very unique imprint made
world headlines when it was discovered.
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 February 9 by mjporter (146 found)
An amazing place. No dinosaurs in MN
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January 30 by AlphaTeam (400 found)
This cache is what brought us to St George. We did do a few other caches, but this one was "it". We were given a personal tour by one of the volunteers there which made it much more interesting and interactive. As a geologist, I enjoyed it as well since I rarely work in sediments let alone fossiliferous ones. (I'm mostly in volcanics). Rest of the family had various other things that were particularly interesting for them. Not we have an Earthcache in Utah! TFTC
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January 8 by Long Rider (938 found)
Found it with Superhooper on another long ride TFTC
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January 8 by Superhooper55 (3372 found)
Found with Long Rider today on the way to California. Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us. We love these kinds of caches! Email sent for Long Rider and I.
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January 8 by tbladvisors (191 found)
thank you for bringing us here, been in ST George many times but never really did any exploration,
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Current Time: 2/9/2010 7:17:30 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (3:17 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 2/9/2010 5:10:42 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:10 AM GMT)
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
