One Of My DV Area Fossil Photos Used In Textbook

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9 years 6 months ago #136 by RichardK
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That has to be a pleasant surprise to find one of your pictures in a published book. I tried looking at the Google preview, but it did not go as far as page 253. Maybe I don't know how to get that deep into the book?

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9 years 6 months ago - 9 years 6 months ago #135 by Inyo
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Just noticed yesterday that one of my fossil photographs from the Death Valley area has been used in a recently published eighth edition of the textbook: Historical Geology with the subtitle, Evolution of Earth Life Through Time by two geology professors at Central Michigan University, Reed Wincander and James S. Monroe (Professor Emeritus). The specific image of mine that they used is on page 253, Figure 12.19; it's a chunk of limestone that I encountered a number of years ago in the lower Permian Owens Valley Group, California, outside the western boundary of Death Valley, California, that bears three natural cross-sections of fusulinids--an extinct single-celled animal that secreted small, roughly wheat to American football-shaped shells with a system of geometrically intricate interior chambers. They are especially excellent guide fossils to rocks of Pennsylvanian and Permian geologic age.

You can gain a Google Books preview of the historical geology textbook over at: books.google.com/books?id=yD9-BAAAQBAJ&p...#v=onepage&q&f=false (as already noted, my photograph is on page 253, Figure 12.19). I don't see where they've given formal attribution (AKA: to "Inyo," for example, although admittedly I haven't yet looked through all the credits), but that's really no matter in actual fact.

The photograph, as it has appeared at my Fossils In Death Valley National Park web page for several years now, can be viewed over at: inyo.coffeecup.com/site/dv/owensvalleygroupfusulinids2.htm .
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