Show 1 U. Geology Museum Offers a Glimpse of the Historic Past The dinosaur tyrannosaurus is considered the of all animals that have walked the face of the It is one of the dinosaurs represented at the Geology By KATE KIRKHAM Chronicle News Editor The University Geology Museum located west of the Book Store offers to all visitors a picture of the historic Specimens In this museum range from relics of huge dinosaurs to samples of the smallest mineral From 1907 to 1938 erick J. Pack was Deseret Professor of Geology and head of the Department of It was under his leadership that the museum was In the early part of it was established in its present Under his direction in 1938 dinosaur bones were brought to the university museum and the was This almost perfect skeleton of the carnivorous dinosaur is the center of attraction at the The skull of the is the most perfect and most complete skull of a flesh-eating dinosaur On the east wall of the museum a brontosaurus is depicted in mural The leg bone of the dinosaur is placed in its position next to the mural which gives an indication of the immense height and proportions of this seventy-five foot Other dinosaur features include a partial skeleton of the found in the Morrison Formation near and the world's largest collection of dinosaur footprints which were gathered mostly from coal mines in Carbon plus a cast of a nest of dinosaur eggs that are the center of an interesting There are many other features in addition to the Three landform maps of Utah indicate the locations of fault systems in seismographic and earthquake locations in Utah from while another display is a topographical map of the central Rocky The geology museum also contains a unique exhibit of the footprints of the flying These were discovered in 1952 by William head of the geology They are unique in that they are the only known footprints existing of the Outstanding also Is the demonstration of the evolution of the The fossil specimens outline the evolution of the horse from the tiny four-toed a skelton of a three-toed horse is present in the to the one-toed living The museum is operated by the geology department with hours from to p.m. The director of the museum is William Stokes and the is James Tours through the museum are |