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This amazingly beautiful Iowa gorge is a unique experience for visitors to get a glimpse into the Earth's past.
Whether it's paintings or ceramics, your art-loving heart will soar when visiting this quirky Iowa city fit with a historic downtown area.
Crouching down, Felix, age 4, pointed at a small crinkled shape embedded in the rocks at the Devonian Fossil Gorge. 'Hey look!” he yelled in excitement, beckoning his mother over to see the ...
If you “dig” fossil-hunting, thousands of beautiful examples can be found at the Devonian Fossil Gorge, north of Iowa City. The acre-and-a-half area was scoured during the floods of ’93 ...
Seven miles away from Iowa City lies the Devonian Fossil Gorge, an open area with thousands of fossils for hikers to touch and investigate. The cause of the gorge and its safety remains a question ...
Hexagonaria fossils, at center, with partial crinoid fossils, above and to the left, seen at the Devonian Fossil Gorge outside Iowa City, Iowa.
As scientists have toiled to chronicle of the evolution of insects, a frustrating blank spot in the fossil record has masked one of the most critical points in insects’ development — the Devonian, or ...
We're talking about the Devonian Fossil Gorge, that flood-cut channel below Coralville Dam packed with tiny fossils. With no school and no snow forecast except for a dusting today, this totally ...
If one is looking for a regular bonanza in fossils, it is necessary to go beyond the Lehigh Valley. The most prolific period for the production of marine fossils in Pennsylvania was the Devonian, a… ...
The gorge was, and still is, used as the emergency natural spillway for the dam. During the flood of 1993, as the water roared through the spillway, it eroded a campground located in its path down to ...
Hexagonaria fossils, at center, with partial crinoid fossils, above and to the left, seen at the Devonian Fossil Gorge outside Iowa City, Iowa.