Digging Up Dinosaurs

America’s National Parks Podcast

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Science, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Much of the western United States was once blanketed in hundreds of feet of sand. The unforgiving sun beat down on the landscape for 20 to 30 million years during the early Jurassic period. Thin layers of rock allowed water to collect even in the dry desert, though sometimes it was hidden a few inches below the surface. Dinosaurs and other animals were able to survive the harsh conditions, and as the sand slowly turned to sandstone, traces of these animals were caught and preserved in the rock, creating fossils. More than 150 million years later, a man named Earl Douglass was born in Medford, Minnesota in 1862. He didn’t know it yet, but his fate was already entwined with the dinosaurs that once roamed the earth. This week on America’s National Parks: Earl Douglass and Dinosaur National Monument.

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0:00.0	The America's National Parks Podcast is brought to you by L. L. L. Bine is a proud
0:08.0	partner of the National Park Foundation and you can help them support the
0:11.5	parks by shopping their limited edition
0:13.6	National Park Collection. Every time you purchase products from the
0:16.7	National Park Collection, which includes tots, shirts, hats, patches, and more,
0:20.6	you're helping to protect, restore, and improve parks throughout the U.S.
0:24.7	search National Park Collection at L.L.Bine.com and be an outsider with L.L. Bean. Much of the Western United States was once blanketed in hundreds of feet of sand.
0:50.0	The unforgiving sun beat down on the landscape for 20 to 30 million years during the early
0:57.0	Jurassic period.
0:59.6	Then layers of rock allowed water to collect even in the dry desert, though sometimes it was hidden
1:05.3	a few inches below the surface. Dinosaurs and other animals were able to survive the harsh
1:11.6	conditions and as the sand slowly turned to
1:14.7	sandstone traces of these animals were caught and preserved in the rock creating
1:20.7	fossils.
1:23.0	More than 150 million years later, a man named Earl Douglas was born in Medford, Minnesota
1:30.1	in 1862.
1:31.9	He didn't know it yet, but his fate was already entwined with the dinosaurs that once
1:36.8	roamed the earth. This week on America's National Parks, Earl Douglas, and Dinosaur National Monument.
1:47.0	Early in his childhood, Earl Douglas loved geology and other sciences.
1:57.0	The passion stayed with him as he grew older.
2:00.0	He began to dive into fossil collections in his 30s.
2:03.7	He spent a few years teaching at schools in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana
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