UID:
edocfu_9959240367602883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-253-01608-8
Series Statement:
Life of the Past
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INSTITUTIONAL ACRONYMS; 1 History of Paleontologic and Geologic Studies in the Big Badlands; 2 Sedimentary Geology of the Big Badlands; 3 Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Interpretations from Paleosols; 4 Postdepositional Processes and Erosion of the White River Badlands; 5 Bones That Turned to Stone: Systematics; 6 Death on the Landscape: Taphonomy and Paleoenvironments; 7 The Big Badlands in Space and Time; 8 National Park Service Policy and the Management of Fossil Resources; GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Y
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ZREFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-01606-1
Language:
English
