The Sharps Formation is a geologic formation in South Dakota. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene.[1]
The Sharps Formation is the namesake of the community of Sharps Corner, South Dakota.[2]
^ abcdMacdonald, J. R. (James Reid); Thomson, Albert Report of the expedition of 1906 to the Miocene on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (1963). "The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. article 3". Bulletin of the AMNH. 125. hdl:2246/1259.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Harksen, J. C.; Macdonald, J. R.; Sevon, W. D. (1961). "New Miocene Formation in South Dakota" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 2022-10-05 – via South Dakota Geological Survey.
SharpsFormation of South Dakota, near Wounded Knee. Other samples have been found in the Brule Formation of South Dakota, the Deep River Formation of...
The Brule Formation was deposited between 33 and 30 million years ago, roughly the Rupelian age (Oligocene). It occurs as a subunit of the White River...
John Day beds of Oregon, in the SharpsFormation of the Wounded Knee area, South Dakota, and in the Gering Formation at Wildcat Ridge, Nebraska. These...
"Peltosaurus granulosus (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Middle Oligocene of Sharps Corner, South Dakota, and the Youngest Known Chronostratigraphic Occurrence...
1970 on the basis of the front half of a skull from the Early Miocene SharpsFormation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Although the skull is incomplete, features...
The John Day Formation is a series of rock strata exposed in the Picture Gorge district of the John Day River basin and elsewhere in north-central Oregon...
Shikama, T.; Ozaki, H. (1966). "On a Reptilian Skeleton from the Palaeozoic Formation of San Paulo, Brazil". Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological...
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would correspond to the Latin formation, does not seem to appear in any known Ancient Greek works prior to the formation of the Latin term. Oxymorons in...
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Banded iron formations (BIFs; also called banded ironstone formations) are distinctive units of sedimentary rock consisting of alternating layers of iron...
Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet. In 1915, a professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg found chain mail from Spanish armor at the Sharps Creek...
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the puffs of clouds rising through the convection of warm air. These formations were first described in 1894 by William Clement Ley. Mammatus are most...
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composed of an outcrop belt of the Lockport Formation of Silurian age, and is similar to the Onondaga Formation, which runs in a parallel outcrop belt just...
corals preserved in this formation. Near the base the unit becomes vuggy. Again the top of this formation is marked by a sharp change between grainstone...
The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures...
Berdan made a request to receive issuance of Sharps rifles to his men. Christian Sharps invented the Sharps rifle in 1848 in Hartford, Connecticut. It was...
equivalent of the Sharp's Hill Formation and the Fuller's Earth Formation. The "Rutland Dinosaur" specimen of Cetiosaurus is known from the formation. Earth sciences...
during the conflict. They were armed with heavy, custom target rifles and Sharps rifles during their service. There was also an all-Native American company...
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wind shear. While these conditions are necessary for tropical cyclone formation, they do not guarantee that a tropical cyclone will form. Normally, an...
glyptosaurines is Peltosaurus granulosus from the Monroe Creek and upper Sharpsformations of Sharps Corner, South Dakota, dating to the mid Oligocene, between 27...
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