One day in the dinosaur park! (Part 1)

About two thousand nine. I was new to Canada. Suddenly the opportunity came in a conference in Alberta. Not so great, but due to low work pressure, I thought it was not bad to turn around. Anything else, at least one person will be seen with a familiar face. Organizers said that interested people have the opportunity to visit Alberta Dinosaur Park. However, those who want to go to the dinosaur park must report in the hotel lobby the morning before the conference begins. Frankly, I did not have any idea about Dinosaur Park. I thought maybe there would be some fossils and dinosaur models, like a natural history museum, which I have seen several times before. I am happy that I will be willing to give up or give up.

Two days before the start of the conference we arrived in the city of Nigel, Calgary. Due to the delay in registration, I did not get room at the main hotel; However, as an alternate system (inexpensive), the room was found at the university's guest house. Take the bus and metro easily from downtown to the hotel, where the conference is going. In the morning luncheon, we got ready to wake up in the morning lounge in the hotel lobby for Randevu, which soon became the young man (apart from a few older people like me) It was announced that the exchange of coffee with the little-known people, and the exchange of coffee in the coffee cup was announced. A sandwich bag and cold water bottle are placed on hand while riding the bus through the line, for lunch. Then the bus started to sit in the seat of a clean, comfortable bus, the bus started moving. At 8.00 in the clock of hand.

The bus organizers gave a sense of that day's program with a microphone. Accordingly, after the journey of about two and a half hours, our first destination was Dinosaur Park's information center. By spending almost forty-five minutes there, we will meet our Donald Brinkman director and his two colleagues from outside the center.Dr. Brinkman is a renowned dinosaur-expert, research director of the Alberter Tyrell Museum.. He will talk about their ongoing research and the two-day tour, then walk to the rest of the park until the last evening walk. In the meantime, sitting in the park, we would eat light food at noon. On returning to the evening, after a barbecue at a hotel in the street, we will be let down in the downtown hotel lobby.

In the mid-summer's beautiful morning, our bus came out of town for a while. Seeing the beauty of the two farms and the low-lying lands, I could not find the last two and a half hours. Our first destination, Dinosaur Park's adjacent data center, is small but quite a bit. Regional geology, geological history, sample of available fossils, current plants and animals, etc. There are various information related to samples. In addition to providing information to visitors, the center acts as a field level laboratory for Tyrell Museum. Before sending the fossils of the dinosaur park to the museum, preparatory work was done for their preservation and exhibition. It is to be noted that in 2011, there is a time-consuming and artistic work to bring the fossils of almost non-present dinosaurs out of the rock. It took time for about seven thousand hours. The specialty of fossils is that not only bones, Soft tissues of skin including skin have also been frozen, which is very rare. In order to know what the dinosaur was like, it would not have to take any pictures of scientists' ideas or artist's paintings. From this year on wards, this unique 'Master Peace' Tyrell Museum is being seen (Photo -1 ).

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Photo-1: Fossil photo of Nadosaurus (collected from National Geographic page) in the exhibition at the Tyrell Museum.

In the beginning of the archive of the Information Center, a detailed description of the region's geological history has been given. This region is called Badlands, which is a large part of the south-eastern side of Canada's Alberta province. Bad land's name is initially given to French immigrants who come to this region. This name is not literally suitable for cultivation, farm or travel, because of the name. The combination of natural forces such as glacier, ice-cold water, rain, wind and temperature can show how a terrain can be seen as a canvas using an amazing natural scene here (Photo-2 ).

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Photo-2: Alberta Badland

In the Jurassic period, when the dinosaurs occupy the highlands of Alberta West, the current park area is still a shallow sea bottom. According to the geologic timepiece, our Genetic delta was still too long to be formed, the Himalayas were not born. Like the rivers of any other delta region, the original river was filled with sediments, which later became a low-lying wetland and in the forest. Just like our coastal areas, the tide-drilling game is in progress. Over time, the wetlands and surrounding forests filled the forest with the Jurassic later crystallization animals and plants. Among them were meat, vegetarian, small, large variety of dinosaurs (photo-3 ).

Alberta's dinosaurs have disappeared almost all the other regions of the world, after a massive change in the climate of the world after nearly six and a quarter million years of precipitating a huge meteorite that swept through the coast of the current Mexican coast. Only some aerial avenues (avian dinosaur) groups survived, whose men are very likely to make our food cups lucrative now with chicken curry, dandruff or chicken-musallam.

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Photo-3: Geological timepieces and animals of the time (edited using information and photos from the internet)

Paleogene time ( photo-3 ) begins after the end of the Cretaceous period after the natural disaster is over . But the wheel of evolution did not stop in the changed environment. The new environment brings enormous opportunities for adaptation to survival animals. Like many other areas, this area of ​​Alberta was filled with a variety of fir-dancers from aerial-dinosaurs; The new mammals came with other species of different species. Thus, the huge presence or destruction of plants and animals in the region of the region for millions of years has kept its mark on the level of sedimentary rock; In the form of fossils

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Photo 4: Cactus flowers, cottonwood and wild sage bushes.

Nearly 64 million years ago, the world's climate change tradition began to comply with the latest ice age. The area filled the huge heap of ice. In the glacier Saran and the subsequent warm earth, the water released from the glaciated glacier is primarily responsible for the current soil type of the region. These two strengths have created a friend's land that is filled with numerous hills / mounds, valleys, canals and dunes. The land is rocky somewhere, somewhere or sandy. The framework of the glacier-covered land has changed much later in the ongoing land erosion. The trend of transformation is still going on today. Due to the melting snow or rain, the flow of water, air and temperature contradictions today, almost every day, changes the land design. Even after the last cretaceous dinosaurs, the subsequent swords-tooth tigers and their contemporary vegetarians have also fired long ago. Their representation is now horny antelope, Wild fox and rattlesnake There is no green lawn, there are grasses of Prairie, dotted wildflowers, cactus, The cottage tree is just like the bush and the big trees(Photo-4 ).

(Will continue)