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Badlands National Park. The geology of South Dakota began to form more than 2.5 billion years ago in the Archean eon of the Precambrian.Igneous crystalline basement rock continued to emplace through the Proterozoic, interspersed with sediments and volcanic materials.
The Horner site, also known as the Creek site and Horner's Corner site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 48PA29, is an important archaeological site near Cody, Wyoming, United States. It is the type site for the Cody complex. [4] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. [3]
The five museums include the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural History Museum, and the Cody Firearms Museum. Founded in 1917 to preserve the legacy and vision of Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody , the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is the oldest and most comprehensive museum ...
The Ben Reifel Visitor Center within the park offers a bookstore, special programs, and museum exhibits. The White River Visitors center in the park's South Unit offers information about the region's Lakota heritage. The Badlands Wilderness covers about one fourth of the park and was designated in 1976. [51]
The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. It is an active paleontological excavation site at which research and excavations are continuing. The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
Archaeotherium skull from the White River Badlands on display at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota. Later, during the Oligocene, at least part of South Dakota was covered in seawater. [1]: 256 The White River Formation was being deposited in the White River badlands as the sea gradually receded.
Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation, the Lourinhã and Alcobaça Formations (Portugal), and the Tendaguru Beds (Tanzania): a comparison. in Foster, J.R. and Lucas, S. G. R.M., eds., 2006, Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 223-231.
In 1938, the site was proposed as a Badlands National Park by the Glendive Chamber of Commerce. Chamber secretary K. E. Burleigh wrote to federal officials, requesting that they "inspect our proposed bad-lands park, we would be very glad to show it to them and we would appreciate any efforts on your part to have a park established near Glendive, as you know we are very short on scenery and ...