On Sat, January 7, 2012 2:21 pm, Stephen V. Cole wrote:
He mentions that he had actually brought two million dollars but
that
some guy named Tom Holtz had talked him into giving half of it to
train new dino prep technicians. Shucks, a million is still a
million.
Hey, they didn't actually earmark that money... It's going into the
"Holtz
travels to every museum collection in the world" fund... :-)
The questions is, where in the whole world would you want to go in
order to dig up something that would ADD TO current dino-paleo
knowledge? Not saying you cannot go to the old places (Argentina,
Chad, Egypt, Mongolia, Madagascar) but perhaps there is some
untested
ground with explosed Mesozoic formations that deserves a look if
only
there was money?
Late K continental Africa. (Okay, some of this is already underway).
Lacustrine/lagoonal deposits ANYWHERE, but most especially if they
are
Triassic or Jurassic: we need to know a lot more about the little
guys of
these times!
Big parts of Middle Asia (the -stans) are worth exploring.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661
Faculty Director, Science& Global Change Program, College Park
Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843
Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Department of Geology
Building 237, Room 1117
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
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