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Quarry Visitor Center

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Quarry Visitor Center
40.440169°N 109.300639°W

It no longer looks like this because it was remodeled.


Quarry wall
40.440597°N 109.301086°W

Inside the visitor center as of 2001.


Quarry Visitor Center
40.440539°N 109.300675°W

The center in 2001 was built into the quarry of Jurassic rock.

As of 2009, the Quarry Visitors Center has been remodeled.   The dinosaur bones are found in the Morrison Formation which is the unit marked "KJcm - Cretaceous-Jurassic Cedar Mountain and Morrison Formations" (the Morrison and Cedar Mountain formations are undifferentiated here).  The dipping rocks are  on the left flank of a plunging anticline. The dinosaur bearing bed is greenish-gray with pebbles and sandstone.

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Quarry Visitor Center

Quarry Visitor Center, in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah was built as part of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program of modern architectural design in the US national parks. This visitor center exemplifies the philosophy of locating visitor facilities immediately at the resource being interpreted. The visitor center was closed in 2006 due to structural damage from unstable soils. The rotunda structure is being demolished and replaced with a new structure of different design, while the quarry section is being stabilized and repaired.[4]

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