Ogden's George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park In the park there is a lot to do. You can Mine for gems put on a miners helmet and dig up as many gems in ten minutes as you can. You can pan for gold. You can split geodes and get a very cool surprise of the color crystals. In the museum they have exhibits of fossils and dino bones and also animated dino's. there is a full Mammoth inside along with an Allosourus, and T-rex. Outside you are in for an adventure, paths that will lead you through dinosaurs in the wild land creatures and water creatures. There is a cave that was inhabited by cavemen and the animals evicted them and have taken control. Inside the building they have paleontologists. Who do work right in front of your eyes by cleaning up fossils that have just been dug up. There is a second building (Education building) for children to learn more about Dinosaurs with computers and movies and pictures to color. There are Dino tracks sent up from St. George on display. That were unearthed by a farmer trying to clear his land. Visit this cache Dinosaur tracks in St. George Earthcache(GCQJ0J). Most of the Dino's and fossils are from the Jurassic Period, and are dino's that could have been found here in Utah or the surrounding states. Fossils of hard mineral parts (like bones and teeth) were formed as follows: Some animals were quickly buried after their death (by sinking in mud, being buried in a sand storm, etc.). Over time, more and more sediment covered the remains. The parts of the animals that didn't rot (usually the harder parts likes bones and teeth) were encased in the newly-formed sediment. In the right circumstances (no scavengers, quick burial, not much weathering), parts of the animal turned into fossils over time. After a long time, the chemicals in the buried animals' bodies underwent a series of changes. As the bone slowly decayed, water infused with minerals seeped into the bone and replaced the chemicals in the bone with rock-like minerals. The process of fossilization involves the dissolving and replacement of the original minerals in the object with other minerals (and/or permineralization, the filling up of spaces in fossils with minerals, and/or recrystallization in which a mineral crystal changes its form). This process results in a heavy, rock-like copy of the original object - a fossil. The fossil has the same shape as the original object, but is chemically more like a rock! Some of the original hydroxy-apatite (a major bone consitiuent) remains, although it is saturated with silica (rock). There are six ways that organisms can turn into fossils, including: unaltered preservation (like insects or plant parts trapped in amber, a hardened form of tree sap) permineralization=petrification (in which rock-like minerals seep in slowly and replace the original organic tissues with silica, calcite or pyrite, forming a rock-like fossil - can preserve hard and soft parts - most bone and wood fossils are permineralized) replacement (An organism's hard parts dissolve and are replaced by other minerals, like calcite, silica, pyrite, or iron) carbonization=coalification (in which only the carbon remains in the specimen - other elements, like hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are removed) recrystalization (hard parts either revert to more stable minerals or small crystals turn into larger crystals) authigenic preservation (molds and casts of organisms that have been destroyed or dissolved). (Info on fossilization from enchantedlearning.com.)
Off Season Hours Park: Mon-Sat: 10am to 6 pm Sun: Noon to 6 pm Season Hours Memorial Day to Labor Day Monday – Saturday 10am – 8pm Sundays 12pm – 6pm Gift Shop 11 am - 6 pm * Park closes at 5pm on * Admission gates close 1 hour prior to closing
* Park is handicap accessible.
* No bikes, skates, roller blades, or skateboards allowed.
* No pets allowed.
There is an admission Fee check the website for prices.
https://www.dinosaurpark.org/
In order to log this cache E-mail me the answers to these questions.
1. What is the scale(size) of the Brachiosarus out in the yard?
2. In the building which two types of dinosuars are animated?
3. Which is you favorite dino exhibit, dino, fossil, info your choice to answer?