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Loading... The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology (Life of the Past) (edition 2015)by Rachel C. Benton (Author)
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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: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than 30 million years after non-avian No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)560.9783Natural sciences and mathematics Fossils & prehistoric life Paleontology Biography And History North America Western U.S.LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |