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About
the Design
"TOPOsaurus PA" is designed to combine several unique
topographic, historical, and geological features of the Pittsburgh
area. The Torosaurus model is overlaid with simplified
topographic maps of Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. In
addition to significant landforms, roads, rivers, etc. that
make the dinosaur identifiable as a "local," symbols on the
map identify the general location of significant fossil deposits
and defunct industrial sites. 
Although
there is a rich local paleontology, the only dinosaur fossils
in the Pittsburgh area reside in Carnegie Museum of Natural
History. Nonetheless, there is a direct connection between
Pittsburgh's geology, paleontology, and topography and its
development as a major industrial center in the 19th century.
In recent years, much of the heavy industry has gone the way
of the dinosaurs, yet smokestacks and enormous steel structures
remain on the urban landscape as evidence of its existence
much as fossils remain as evidence of life forms from the
past.
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