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Title
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Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911
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Date
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June 17-July 2, 1911
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-1911
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Rights
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_ Westward from point in Praince Des Creek bad /ards
the grotesque erosion, the "confusion worse confounded": where two or more
drainage systems converge to effect the destruction of a given region,
end most striking of all, the laying bare by the water of innumersble
fossil remains, furnished an endless field for observation and photography.
These fossil deposits are of great interest. One is impressed first
by the great number of turtles, the shells of some specimens being five or
six feet lone, I am told, though we did not find any which exceeded three
feet. The problem of their geological history seems moderately simple :
so long as one finds only turtles, which are vastly predominant; but what |
havpens to one's preliminary theory when he finds the head and bones of |
an antelope-like creature, and the fossil tooth of a earnivorous animal
of fear-inspiring proportions? One cen not imagine that these creatures 4
were old friends of the marine turtles, and that they swam about in the a
& same bay. So the. geologists have concluded that there was a cataclysm .
or some such doings back in the uncanny’ glacial days, and that these
creatures of so many kinds were caught and swirled away together into this
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