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African dinosaurs unearthed : the Tendaguru expeditions /
From the Publisher: From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachios...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Life of the past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 1907 Something curious in the African bush
- 1908 A matter of national honor
- 1909 A cemetery of giants
- 1909-1910 Geology in the rain
- 1911 Along the railway
- 1911-1912 A museum overflows
- 1913-1918 Fresh discoveries and a bitter war
- 1919-1924 The British museum in Tanganyika territory
- 1924-1925 Cutler, Leakey, and a difficult start
- 1925 Berlin builds dinosaurs
- 1925 A death in Africa
- 1925 A new recruit
- 1925-1926 An expedition saved
- 1926-1927 Berlin in chaos
- 1927-1929 Geology at Tendaguru
- 1929 Migeod returns
- 1930 Migeod and Parrington, Tendaguru and Nyasaland
- 1931-1939 Berlin's museum triumphs
- 1939-1976 Destruction and renewal
- 1971-2001 Russell to Africa, Brachiosaurus to Tokyo, Berlin to Tendaguru
- A significant contribution.