Discovery and Re-discovery in the White River Badlands
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Author | : Rachel C. Benton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0253016088 |
This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). 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 thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Author | : Cleophas Cisney O'Harra |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
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Release | : 2022-10-27 |
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ISBN | : 9781015964839 |
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Author | : Cleophas Cisney O'Harra |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : David K. Randall |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324006544 |
A Science Friday Best Book to Read This Summer A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of 25 miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. Vivid and engaging, The Monster’s Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times best-selling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it.
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Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : South Dakota (State) School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Cyanide process |
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Author | : Cleophas Cisney O'Harra |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : John Bell Hatcher |
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Ceratopsia |
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