The White River Badlands: geology and paleontology 9780253016089, 0253016088
The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks
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English Pages illustrations, cartes Year 2015
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.
