"Mass Graves of the South Dakota Inner Sea"
Mass Graves of the South Dakota Inner Sea
Location: Calvert Marine Museum Indoor Auditorium, Solomons, MD
December 5, 2009 2:30 PM
FREE Public Lecture in the museum auditorium
Join Bill Palmer presenting "Mass Graves of the South Dakota Inner Sea."
Approximately eighty million years ago, periodic volcanic eruptions to the west of the South Dakota Inner Sea carpeted hundreds of square miles with ash. Some of this area was purchased by the U.S. government in the 1960s because a vast number of fossils are found there in rock layers known as the Pierre Shale. Some of the fossiliferous layers are over 30 feet thick. These layers now preserve the skeletons of thousand of marine reptiles, pterosaurs (i.e., the extinct flying reptiles), sharks, and fishes.
Hosted by the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club and sponsored by the Clarissa and Lincoln Dryden Endowment for Paleontology. For additional information, please contact Stephen Godfrey, CMM's Curator of Paleontology, at 410-326-2042, ext. 28.
Location: Calvert Marine Museum Indoor Auditorium, Solomons, MD
December 5, 2009 2:30 PM
FREE Public Lecture in the museum auditorium
Join Bill Palmer presenting "Mass Graves of the South Dakota Inner Sea."
Approximately eighty million years ago, periodic volcanic eruptions to the west of the South Dakota Inner Sea carpeted hundreds of square miles with ash. Some of this area was purchased by the U.S. government in the 1960s because a vast number of fossils are found there in rock layers known as the Pierre Shale. Some of the fossiliferous layers are over 30 feet thick. These layers now preserve the skeletons of thousand of marine reptiles, pterosaurs (i.e., the extinct flying reptiles), sharks, and fishes.
Hosted by the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club and sponsored by the Clarissa and Lincoln Dryden Endowment for Paleontology. For additional information, please contact Stephen Godfrey, CMM's Curator of Paleontology, at 410-326-2042, ext. 28.
Labels: cretaceous, fossils, maryland, meetings, sediment, south dakota, volcano
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