VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] Re: The end is nigh, 2.5 billion years ago

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Re: [Geology2] Re: The end is nigh, 2.5 billion years ago

Yes, Vic... it's the LaBrea Tar Pits in LA. and they have their own website:

http://www.tarpits.org/

Enjoy,

Lin

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:42 AM, sactovic <sactovic@yahoo.com> wrote:

Well done piece, except I can't find a reference to what museum she's talking about. I Presume it's the Page at the tar pits, but maybe not? Is there any other paleontology museum in LA or San Diego?

Vic

--- In geology2@yahoogroups.com, Lin Kerns <linkerns@...> wrote:
>
> The end is nigh, 2.5 billion years ago
> By Minda Berbeco on June 4, 2013
>
> <http://mindaberbeco.scienceblog.com/category/uncategorized/>

>
> Through my work in the sciences, I've found myself in some pretty cool
> places. Researching urban trees in Cuba (a clipboard in one hand, a cigar
> in the other), machete-ing my way through a tropical rainforest while being
> hunted by wild pigs, sipping lattes for hours and hours and hours and hours
> while writing all of that work up (a caffeine drip really would have been
> more helpful). But nowhere was as cool and interesting as my most recent
> position at a paleontology museum here in California, because let's be
> serious, dinosaurs rule.
>
>