The White River Badlands : geology and paleontology

The White River Badlands : geology and paleontology /

The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb...

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Main Authors: Benton, Rachel (Author), Terry, Dennis O., 1965- (Author), Evanoff, Emmett (Author), McDonald, H. Gregory (Hugh Gregory), 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Life of the past.
Subjects:
Fossils > Collection and preservation > South Dakota.
Paleontology > South Dakota.
NATURE > Animals > Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
NATURE > Fossils.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Fossils > Collection and preservation
Paleontology
South Dakota
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Table of Contents:
  • History of paleontologic and geologic studies in the Big Badlands
  • Sedimentary geology of the Big Badlands ; Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretations from paleosols
  • Postsdepositional processes and erosions of the White River Badlands
  • Bones that turned to stone : systematics
  • Death on the landscape : taphonomy and paleoenvironments ; The Big Badlands in space and time
  • National Park Service policy and the managemeny of fossil resources.

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