عنوان

The White River Badlands :

(Number (ISBN

0253016061 (cl : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780253016065 (cl : alk. paper)

Erroneous ISBN

9780253016089 (eb)

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Title Proper

The White River Badlands :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

geology and paleontology /

First Statement of Responsibility

Rachel C. Benton, Dennis O. Terry Jr., Emmett Evanoff, H. Gregory McDonald

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 222 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

29 cm

Series Title

Life of the past

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index

Text of Note

History of paleontologic and geologic studies in the Big Badlands -- Sedimentary geology of the Big Badlands -- Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretations from paleosols -- Postdepositional processes and erosion 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 management of fossil resources

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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 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. The book provides a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands and will complement, enhance, and in some ways replace the classic 1920 volume by Cleophas C. O'Harra. Because the book focuses on a national treasure, it touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils."--Publisher description

Fossils-- Collection and preservation-- South Dakota-- White River Region

Paleontology-- South Dakota-- White River Region

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Benton, Rachel

Evanoff, Emmett

McDonald, H. Gregory, (Hugh Gregory),1951-

Terry, Dennis O.,1965-

Date of Transaction

20160309110322.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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