The Rattlesnake drainage Location: Southwest portion of Big Bend National Park, near Terlingua TX Year: 1994 Merckslides catalogue number: 06-17138 Comments: This is perhaps the most beautiful, effecting landscape I have ever been in. This photo of the floodplain of the ephemeral Rattlesnake Creek crossing the Cretaceous Aguja and Penn Formation sediments with tall tertiary volcanics in the background, doesn't begin to capture the place's charm. It is, probably the closest I've ever come truly to being isolated from humanity. We were a good two miles from the nearest road, and hundreds of miles from any air traffic. There was absolutely no sight or sound of humanity at all, aside from the UT field crew.

Phoebe's Hill Location: The Rattlesnake Drainage - southwest portion of Big Bend National Park, near Terlingua TX Year: 1994 Merckslides catalogue number: 06-17138 Comments: On the east side of the Rattlesnake Drainage was an area we called the "Langston Zone," which was highly fossiliferous. Pheobe's Hill was named for Phoebe Stubblefield, a UT physical Anthropology grad student who labored for several days to expose the partial remains of a ceratopsian skull there. (She is seated in the middle of the crowd).

Burrow casts in Aguja Formation Location: The Rattlesnake Drainage - southwest portion of Big Bend National Park, near Terlingua TX Year: 1994 Merckslides catalogue number: 06-17139 Comments: .

Hadrosaur vertebra before excavation Location: The Rattlesnake Drainage - southwest portion of Big Bend National Park, near Terlingua TX Year: 1994 Merckslides catalogue number: 06-17096 Comments: The neural spine is to the right, the centrum barely discernible on the left

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