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So you have to find rocks of the right age, depending on what your interests are.

You have to find the younger rocks of the Mesozoic, and in the case of dinosaurs, between 235 and 66 million years ago.

Now, it's fairly easy to find rocks of the right age at this point, because the Earth is, to a coarse degree, geologically mapped.

The annals of Earth history are written in rocks, one chapter upon the next, such that the oldest pages are on bottom and the youngest on top.

Operating over vast swaths of time, myriad geological processes offer every possible insult to the rocks of ages.

Lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts all date back to about the age of the Solar System.

Moon rocks are forever.

Earth rocks, on the other hand, face the perils of a living lithosphere.

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur.

So now, if you want to find trilobites, get yourself a good geological map and go to the rocks of the Paleozoic.

If you want to find dinosaurs like I do, find the rocks of Mesozoic and go there.

It's that you need to go to a place that's a desert today, a place that doesn't have too many plants covering up the rocks, and a place where erosion is always exposing new bones at the surface.

So find those three things: rocks of the right age, that are sedimentary rocks, in a desert, and get yourself on the ground, and you literally walk until you see a bone sticking out of the rock.

In the austral summer of 2004, I went to the bottom of South America, to the bottom of Patagonia, Argentina, to prospect for dinosaurs: a place that had terrestrial sedimentary rocks of the right age, in a desert, a place that had been barely visited by paleontologists.

And the beauty, to me, comes from the fact that I know that hands cut these stones, and they formed them into this thick wall, made only in this place with rocks from this soil.

We spent the day climbing together to a specific crack in the middle of the wall that was choked with loose rocks that made that section difficult and potentially dangerous, because any missed step might knock a rock to the ground and kill a passing climber or hiker.

So we carefully removed the rocks, loaded them into the pack and rappelled back down.

Take a second to imagine how ridiculous it feels to climb 1,500 feet up a wall just to fill a backpack full of rocks.

It's never that easy to carry a pack full of rocks around.

It came to be known as the First Intifada, and people who have any visual memory of it generally conjure up something like this: Palestinian men throwing rocks at Israeli tanks.

Makes the rocks crumble, and the first step in the generation of soil.

Men's jobs became more important: they had to move the rocks, fell the trees, plow the land.

And the second the song finishes playing, he beelines towards me, buries me into his arms and rocks me back and forth.

Now, I'm not a scientist, but atmospheric scientists will look for traces in the air chemistry in geology, a bit like how rocks can oxidize, and they'll extrapolate that information and aggregate it, such that they can pretty much form a recipe for the air at different times.

They were playing barefoot with a raggedy soccer ball and rocks set up as goals.

So this is where the rocks come in.

And that stuff that gets stuck in the ground gets buried, and through time, we get big, thick accumulations of sediments that eventually turn into rocks.

What this means is that we can go to places like this, where we see big, thick stacks of sedimentary rocks, and go back in time and see what the landscapes looked like in the past.

So what we can do is we can go back and find rocks that were deposited at this time and reconstruct how the landscape changed in response to this warming event.

So here, yay, rocks.

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