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September 8, 2010
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Day with the Dinosaurs
Course: Calgary to the Red Deer River Valley |
| Southern Alberta is a treasure house of geology, natural history and human culture. One of our most famous natural resources is the Dinosaur Park Formation within the Cretaceous Belly River Formation. Economically important for its coal and petroleum resources, the Dinosaur Park Formation has an even more famous claim - as the world's richest dinosaur bearing formation. Several hundred intact fossilized dinosaurs, as well as numerous crocodiles, tortoises and other ancient life forms have been excavated from this scenic band of ancient rock over the past century. These dinosaur discoveries are exhibited in famous museums world wide, including in what is now argueably the most famous dinosaur museum of all - the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. GeoHisotry's A Day with the Dinosaurs Field Course takes you to the site of these amazing dinosaur discoveries - the Dinosaur Park Formation in Dinosaur Provincial Park , located in the grassland prairies of South Eastern Alberta, for a day with the dinosaurs. |
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A Day with the Dinosaurs is a single day field course that begins in Calgary, Alberta and continues to Patricia, Alberta, home of Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Herigage Site. Participants will tour the Tyrell Museum's Field Station and enjoy the interpretive programs offered there. Afterward, course participants will walk through historic Dinosaur Provincial Park and discover dinosaur excavation sites, ancient river channels, petrified trees, and numerous fossils including dinosaur bones, sea shells, and maybe the occasional dinosaur tooth, crocodile tooth, sharks tooth and turtle shell. By the end of the course, participants will have learned about the types of dinosaurs that used to live where people now walk, about the reign of those dinosaurs on earth and what ultimately caused their demise 65 million years ago. As well, participants will find out which group of dinosaurs are still alive and thriving today! |
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A Day with the Dinosaurs departs from Calgary at 7:00 am and returns between 8:00 pm and 10:00pm. Lunch and dinner is included as are all admission fees.
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Course Pricing (Groups of 20 or more): Contact info@geohistory.ca to book groups. First
20 Participants: $460 per person
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