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Virtual dinosaur stomping grounds

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Many among us, from children on up, are fascinated by dinosaurs and long to know more about them. Photonic instrumentation has been used to help document the remains of these creatures and to determine the activities they engaged in when they roamed the Earth. An open quarry in the southeast Pyrenees, north of Barcelona, Spain, bears more than 3500 individual dinosaur tracks and 40 trackways (more than two footfalls made by the same animal) that will eventually be lost to weathering and erosion. Paleontologists have recorded significant deterioration of the track surfaces since their...Read full article

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    Published: December 2008
    Glossary
    exposure
    In optics, the total radiant energy incident on a surface-per-unit area. It is equal to the integral over time of the radiant flux density. Also known as radiant exposure.
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