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Two tiny trilobites in a vast Cambrian ocean drift past sea cucumber parasols and a shaggy, tree-like sponge. Snail tracks loop enigmatically against brushed-gray Silurian slate, and ghostly white crinoids feather a Devonian seascape. A delicate pterosaur flies bravely into the Jurassic gloom, while a Tyrannosaurus rex so big that its teeth fill our field of vision stalks the deep orange sands that mark the end of the Cretaceous period. These are just a few scenes from the magnificent drama that unfolds in glorious full color and three-dimensional texture in Rock of Ages, Sands of Time. Each of Barbara Page's 544 contiguous painted panels represents a million years of the history of life on earth, with fossil plants and animals depicted at the same scale and in association with each other just as they might be found by a paleontologist in the field. A muted rainbow of background colors evoke the rocks in which the fossils were foundthe Texas Red Beds, for instance, or the yellow Solnhofen limestoneand keystone events are shown metaphorically, with fat rolls of paint marking major extinctions or continental drift. To fully experience the awesome impact of an eon's worth of time spre

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Author

paintings by Barbara Page; text by Warren Allmon

Publisher

University of Chicago Press in association with the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226644790

Category

science

Subjects

Art, Science, History

Rating

4.4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14