fossil butte national park

By: Joey Luciani

1. What year did the park become an official National Park and why? It became a National park in 1972. It became a national park to protect some of the green river and Wasatch formations.

2. How was the park formed? The park was formed from ancient lake sediments.

3. What type of rocks can be found inside the park? Some Rocks in the park are the shale, sandstone, limestone and dolomite.

4. What special landforms or features are inside your park? More than 100 snakes, birds, mammals and amphibians are in the park. There are a lot of fossils located in the park.

How is the land inside the park currently changing? It is becoming more desert like.

What environmental issue are effecting your park? Global warming is causing an increase in surface temperature which is expected to cause a disruption in the ecosystem in the park.

How is technology used to preserve and maintain the park? They monitor where they find cool stuff to show visitors.

Map of the park:

Pictures and diagrams that will help promote or explain geological features inside the park.

In a encyclopedia I found that the definition of fossils is….. fossils are remains, prints, or traces of a plant that lived a long time ago.

http://www.nps.gov/fobu/naturescience/geologicformations.htm http://www.nps.gov/fobu/naturescience/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fobu/sec1.htm http://www.georgewright.org/0744dunn.pdf http://www.nps.gov/fobu/naturescience/naturalfeaturesandecosystems.htm Ambrose, Peter D. Fossil Butte National Monument: along the Shores of Time.

Vernal, Utah: Dinosaur Nature Association, 1996. Print. Agnes, Michael. Webster's New World Children's Dictionary. New York: Macmillan,

1999. Print.