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Return to Xanadu: A Paleontologist's Paradise:

.....Only once in a great while does a book appear which makes a great leap forward in our understanding of paleontology and the per-history of the planet, and dinosaurs in particular. Such a book is "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs." It is an account of the American Museum of Natural History/Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi desert in 1990-95, a place first explored by Roy Chapman Andrews of the AMNH in the 1920s, where the first scientifically studied dinosaur eggs were discovered.

.....Dr. Michael J.... more info

Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs:

Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs written by Michael Novacek is a thrilling account of one of the largest dinosaur expeditions and finds of the 20th century.

Hidden in the Gobi desert in Mongolia are the famous Flaming Cliffs and within these cliffs are a multitude of dinosaur fossil remains. This site was known about earlier but with politics as they are not until 1993 did extensive documentation of the site occur. The American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences teamed up to... more info

So You Want To Be A Paleontologist:

Michael Novacek's Dinosaurs Of The Flaming Cliffs is an excellent introduction to paleontological fieldwork and expeditions AND to the science of paleontology. The chapters alternate between the trials and tribulations of each new field season and the basics of geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory. There is the occasional minor error [which I cannot relocate and since I just read a copy of the hardback, I cannot say if those errors have been corrected in the paperback], but these do not distract... more info

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