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Cross-Bedding in the White River Formation of Northwestern South Dakota

Author(s) -

Dean E. Winchester

Publication year - 1913

Publication title -

the journal of geology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1537-5269

pISSN - 0022-1376

DOI - 10.1086/622099

Subject(s) - geology , bedding , white (mutation) , archaeology , section (typography) , series (stratigraphy) , library science , paleontology , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , biology , horticulture , gene , advertising , computer science , business

Rocks of White River (Oligocene) age have been known for many years to constitute numerous isolated buttes and mesas in the northwest corner of South Dakota, but no detailed study of their character and structural relations had been made until 1911, when, during an examination of the lignite area of that country, the writer had occasion to study the relation of the younger rocks to those containing lignite beds. Todd,' in 1895, recognized the White River formation in the Slim Buttes and called attention to the area in the following language:

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