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Author Stevens, Alison Pearce, author.

Title Rhinos in Nebraska : the amazing discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds / Alison Pearce Stevens ; illustrated by Matt Huynh.

Publication Info. New York : Godwin Books : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 590.978 STEVENS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  NEW MG560.9 STE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 560 STEVENS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J560 STE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J560 STEVENS    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  J Science 560.9782 STE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [128]) and index.
Contents Glimpse of an ancient past -- Supervolcano -- Unusual find -- Hitting paydirt -- How old? -- Hidden in ash -- Deducing behavior -- A long, slow death -- Solving old mysteries -- Digging deeper -- Eureka! -- Seeing a bigger picture -- Making a park -- Searching for ancient water -- The lucky ones -- Finding the volcano -- Peering underground -- A bigger barn -- Ghost tracks -- More evidence -- Always something new.
Summary "Twelve million years ago, rhinos, elephants, and giraffes roamed North America. They would gather at nearby watering holes-eating, drinking, and trying not to become someone else's lunch. But one day, in what we now know as Nebraska, everything changed. The explosion of a supervolcano a thousand miles away sent a blanket of ash that buried these animals for millennia. Until 1953, when a seventeen-year-old farm worker made an unbelievable discovery. This is the first book to be published about the Ashfall Fossil Beds, where more than two hundred perfectly preserved fossils have been found. Step into the past with author Alison Pearce Stevens, who has worked with many of the Ashfall researchers at the University of Nebraska State Museum"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience Ages: 8-12 Henry Holt and Company.
Grades: 4-6 Henry Holt and Company.
Subject Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (Neb.) -- Juvenile literature.
Paleontological excavations -- Nebraska -- Royal -- Juvenile literature.
Fossils -- Nebraska -- Royal -- Juvenile literature.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology.
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (Neb.) (OCoLC)fst00765006
Fossils. (OCoLC)fst00933164
Paleontological excavations. (OCoLC)fst01051509
Nebraska -- Royal. (OCoLC)fst01275981
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (Neb.)
Fossils -- Nebraska.
Paleontology -- Nebraska.
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (Neb.).
Paleontological excavations.
Fossils.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Instructional and educational works.
Added Author Huynh, Matt, illustrator.
Added Title Amazing discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds
ISBN 9781250266576 (hardcover)
1250266572 (hardcover)
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