A good lesson to learn early on, when digging dinosaurs, is that even in a desert there is occasional rain; and when it rains, it is advisable to have a drain in the lowest part of the quarry excavation lest it turn into a wading pool, as seen here.

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Title A good lesson to learn early on, when digging dinosaurs, is that even in a desert there is occasional rain; and when it rains, it is advisable to have a drain in the lowest part of the quarry excavation lest it turn into a wading pool, as seen here.
Photo Number P1048n014
Description Photo of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry during rainstorm.
Date 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989
Textual Date Circa 1970s, 1980s
Keywords Utah; Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry; Paleonotology; Dinosaurs; Quarries
Subject Fossils--Collection and preservation--Utah--Photographs; Paleontology--Utah--Emery Co.--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Emery County (Utah); Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry (Utah)
Additional Information None
Collection Number and Name P1048 James H. Madsen Photograph Collection
Collection Name James H. Madsen
Original Source N/A
Donated By/Purchased From The collection was donated by James H. Madsen in October 2002.
Rights All of the original slides comprising these sets, except as noted, were the personal property of James H. Madsen Jr. and DINOLAB, September 2002. They may not be reproduced in any way at this time without written permission from the Utah Museum of Natural History and the Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah.
Type Image
ARK ark:/87278/s6d22jsm
Setname uum_map
ID 954685
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d22jsm
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