Cindi Sirois Collins is a retired Texas science teacher whose love of geology and Big Bend’s Fossil Discovery Exhibit led her to research the park’s paleontological past and inspired her passion for dinosaurs and other ancient animals. Asher Elbein is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Texas Monthly, and Audubon magazine, among other publications.
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Fossil Hunting in Big Bend
* Chapter 2. The March of Time in Big Bend
* Chapter 3. Marine Big Bend: The Boquillas and Pen Formations
* Chapter 4. Dinosaur Floodplains: The Aguja, Javelina, and Cretaceous
Black Peaks Formations
* Chapter 5. Rivers and Ash: The Paleogene Black Peaks, Hannold Hill,
and the Combined Formations
* Chapter 6. Cool Forests, Drying Plains: The Delaho, Banta Shut-In,
and the “Pleistocene” Formations
* Acknowledgments
* Suggestions for Further Reading
* Bibliography
* Index
