Epoxy
Abiquiu Lake
Abiquiú, New Mexico, USA
Also known as Lake Abiquiu, Abiquiu Reservoir, Ghost Ranch
About twelve miles up the Chama from this lake is a quarry that has produced at least a thousand dinosaurs of a single species.
Edwin Colbert's team from the American Museum of Natural History found it at Ghost Ranch in 1947, in red siltstone of the Upper Triassic. About forty cubic yards of rock has given up a thousand individuals of Coelophysis, a small light theropod that ran on two legs.
They lie crowded together and mostly whole, which is unusual. Two of the adults on display in New York have the bones of smaller Coelophysis inside their ribcages. That was read for years as cannibalism.
Coelophysis is New Mexico's state fossil. Georgia O'Keeffe lived at Ghost Ranch and later in Abiquiú, painting the same country the bones came out of.
Details
- Feature
- Lake
- Build
- Epoxy
- Material
- Solid Cherry
- Colour
- Blue Green
- Size
- 10-1/2" x 16"
- Completed
- March 2025
How this one was made
Not wall to wall, so the dam follows the waterline about half an inch out and the flood runs along the shore. Abiquiu is two different problems on one board: a long thin arm running northwest where the water is barely wider than the engraving, and a basin at the bottom with a shoreline that crimps in and out the whole way round. Cherry will take blue into open grain if the seal misses anywhere, so the prep matters more here than the pour. The black line at the border is a separate section with its own thin channel running the full perimeter.
Waypoints close by
Blue Mesa ReservoirGunnison, Colorado, USA
Knox LakeLimestone County, Texas, USA
Cabo San LucasMexico
Flathead LakeMontana, USAAlso from our workshop
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From Where this is
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