Tag: Paleontology Field School
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Bown’s New Book Offers Fresh View on Wyoming Landslide
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Read More: Bown’s New Book Offers Fresh View on Wyoming LandslideBown’s New Book Offers Fresh View on Wyoming Landslide February 2025 Josh Zaffos Anthropology and Geography faculty Thomas Bown, Ph.D, is the coauthor of a new book, Heart Mountain Detachment Fault: A Critical Reappraisal, published by Archway Publishing. Bown and Associate Teaching Professor Kim Nichols co-direct the CSU Paleontology Field…
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Anthropology student earns Phi Beta Kappa Nomination
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Read More: Anthropology student earns Phi Beta Kappa NominationAnthropology student earns Phi Beta Kappa Nomination Eloise Blatherwick graduated with Biological Anthropology concentration in Spring 2020 Joshua Zaffos Eloise Blatherwick (ANTH, ’20) is among a select group of Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts students who has been nominated and accepted to join Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s…
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To find a Palaeosinopa, stare at the ground in the Badlands
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Read More: To find a Palaeosinopa, stare at the ground in the Badlandsby Rachel Bockrath On the morning of June 26, 2016, we set out for the field, another day of collecting. The tops of the hills look like freshly made brownies, in colors of red, orange, grey, and even deep purple. It looks like the set of a movie taking place on another planet.…
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A New Field Season Record: Students Find Over 640 Fossils
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Read More: A New Field Season Record: Students Find Over 640 Fossilsby Kimberly Nichols Working in fossil beds dating to 56-53 mya in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, the 2016 Colorado State University (CSU) Paleontology Field School crew, with the addition of visitors from the CSU Department of Anthropology, Dr. Joe Sertich of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and…
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CSU Anthropology Student Research: Early Eocene Primates in Bighorn Basin
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Read More: CSU Anthropology Student Research: Early Eocene Primates in Bighorn BasinLuke Weaver, an anthropology major with a minor in geology, presented his capstone research project, “Lateral and temporal distribution of early Eocene primates in relation to relative paleosol maturity, Willwood Formation, Bighorn Bason, Wyoming,” at the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists (WAVP) Conference Luke Weaver, an anthropology major with a…