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erik kvale

geology
1978, 1982 & 1986

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Walking in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

For 167 million years, the tracks remained embedded in the Wyoming earth. For centuries individuals may have noticed them, but no one thought much of it. Erik Kvale was one of those individuals who didn't think much of the ripples in the ground. "I was thinking that these were all marine sediments and I said 'no these are the wrong formation.' Those words had barely cleared my lips when my eyes caught sight of the first dinosaur track." Erik soon noticed that it was a big long track, which was later determined to be made by dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic period. The tracks have been mapped and now form the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, a Bureau of Land Management educational site. Since Erik's initial discovery, more than 1,000 tracks have been located on the site.