File:Looking Down the Trench (fb6aaf7f-b9da-4620-8060-6ed275aa6b79).jpg

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English: Looking Down the Trench
Photographer
English: NPS
Title
English: Looking Down the Trench
Description
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Image of a direct angle inside a trench that demonstrates the length and depth of the trench. Trench walls show sedimentary layers and base of trench contain human footprints. One footprint is marked using a ruler.

Researchers dug many trenches such as this to gather information and estimate time periods using the sedimentary layers. Based on the depth of the footprint, researchers can provide a time frame of the human activity.

  • Keywords: Footprint; Human; Fossil; Trench; Archeology
Depicted place
English: White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Date Taken on 20 January 2020
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fb6aaf7f-b9da-4620-8060-6ed275aa6b79
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
WHSA
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English: Fossilized Trackways

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