The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time

by Lance Grande and John Weinstein

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than fifty million years ago, it was a subtropical lake, surrounded by volcanoes and forests and teeming with life. Buried within the sun-baked limestone is spectacular evidence of the lush vegetation and plentiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226922960
• ISBN13: 9780226922966
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.4" x 10.3"