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If you have a child that enjoys splashing in creeks and also loves fossils, I have not one but two suggestions for a Spring Break adventure. The first one is farther away, more physically intensive, and will yield fewer results, but the awesome factor may make it worthwhile: The W.M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park in Northern Mississippi. The other is right here in Huntsville, and I guarantee easy results: Creekwood Park.
If you want to make the trip more substantial, there are two quick stops along the Natchez Parkway to explore. At Bear Creek Picnic area, there are tables and benches for a picnic and plenty of room for kids to run around in the grass. Just walking along the beach at this spot can be an adventure. We felt we had been transported to another world, because instead of soft sand or rocks, this beach is covered in large mussel shells.
The fossil park is open to the public but is privately owned. The owners request that visitors do not collect fossils for commercial gain. To maintain the area, only dig and scoop debris (sand, rocks, and hopefully fossils) from within the creek and not from the shore or bank.
Keep the water level of the creek in mind ahead of fossil-finding plans. The water level of the creek fluctuates depending on rain. It can be calmly moving and clear or raging, muddy, and even dangerous. The varying water levels are constantly altering the creek, so how wide the rocky shoreline is changes over time. Rain boots are optimal when there is little shoreline combined with cold weather.
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Badlands Dinosaur Museum, North Dakota Geological Survey, and Dickinson State University are delighted to invite you to attend our symposium, Cretaceous and Beyond - paleontology of the Western Interior.
The main emphasis of the meeting is the evolution, ontogeny, and paleoecology of vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene (Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene) of North America. However, presentations on relevant non-vertebrate fields such as stratigraphy, geochronology, palynology, paleobotany, and invertebrate paleontology will also be welcome, keeping in mind the audience of mainly vertebrate paleontologists. Presentations on other time periods or geographic regions should clearly explain their relevance for vertebrate researchers in the Cretaceous and Paleogene of the Western Interior (e.g. intercontinental migration or variation, with Asian fauna, etc.).
A limited number of presentation slots will be available for presentations on land use, and political or legal stewardship issues. If you have an idea for a presentation topic not listed here, please contact eafreedman [at] gmail.com or denver.fowler [at] dickinsongov.com to enquire about the suitability of the topic for this conference.
Platform presentations are 15mins, with 5 mins for questions (total 20mins per presentation). For abstracts with multiple co-authors, different parts of the presentation may be given by different individuals so long as it fits within the time limit.
Up to two first-authored abstracts can be submitted for consideration. However, a second platform presentation will only be offered after all other attendees who wish to present a talk (and whose abstract has met the required quality and content standards) have already been allocated a slot.
The symposium was conceived to provide a venue for North American vertebrate paleontologists who might be unable to attend the 2019 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, which is being held in Australia. The emphasis on Cretaceous and Paleogene vertebrates reflects the internationally significant fossil resources of the western Great Plains, which form the research and fieldwork foci of the host institutions.
Although aimed primarily at paleontology professionals, the symposium will include a public event in which a selection of attendees give brief overviews of their research, followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience. This event will also be live-streamed so viewers around the world may participate.
The host hotel for the conference is the La Quinta Inn and Suites by Wyndham Dickinson. The hotel includes complimentary breakfast and wi-fi, and is conveniently located near the Badlands Dinosaur Museum and several dining options.
Walking distance between the La Quinta and museum (Saturday evening dinner/reception) is half a mile (less than 10 minute walk). Walking distance between the La Quinta and university (talks & posters) is 1.2 miles (25 minute walk through pleasant residential area). We are hoping to offer shuttle service between the host hotel and university/museum. Please contact us if you would prefer to use the shuttle service.
Presentations will be hosted at Dickinson State University where we have two lecture theaters available equipped with modern seating and accessibility options, and the latest projection and A/V equipment.
Formerly operating as Dakota Dinosaur Museum (1992-2015), Badlands Dinosaur Museum is located within the city of Dickinson and is part of the 12 acre campus of Dickinson Museum Center. The museum was acquired by the City of Dickinson in 2015 and is undergoing a complete overhaul of facilities and exhibits as part of its transition into a public institution.
The museum will host the reception evening for the symposium, where attendees will have the opportunity to tour our facility and view the exhibits, including our award winning feathered dinosaur models (pictured).
The Paleontology program at the North Dakota Geological Survey maintains the North Dakota State Fossil Collection, which is the official state repository for fossils and associated data, and operates an extensive field and classroom based educational outreach program. Their offices are in the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Bismarck, 100 miles east of Dickinson), which includes exhibits on the paleontology and geology of North Dakota..
The North Dakota State Fossil Collection consists of tens of thousands of plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate fossils from Cretaceous through Pleistocene rocks in North Dakota. Research visits to the collections are encouraged but space is limited, and all visits must be arranged prior to the symposium. Collections visits will not be possible between September 13th and September 15th.
Dickinson is a thriving town of around 25,000 residents in western North Dakota, adjacent to I-94. As the hub city of SW North Dakota, Dickinson is well-served by hotels, restaurants, and entertainments, including two cinemas, one of which is located at the university.
Dickinson is served by Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt regional airport, which has daily flights to and from Denver, CO, and is located only 6 miles south of town. Alternatively we also expect some attendees might fly into Bismarck Municipal Airport, located 103 miles east on I-94. We are investigating the possibility of a limited shuttle service to both airports (TBC).
Edge of the Wedge - Since 2016, Badlands Dinosaur Museum has been conducting fieldwork in the Judith River Formation of Valley County, Montana. This fieldtrip will visit some of the museum's current fossil sites and investigate the atypical geology of this easternmost exposure of the Judith River Wedge.
Highway to Hell (Creek) - Near the town of Jordan, we will visit exposures of the Hell Creek Formation described in Fowler (2016, dissertation). This will include visiting Hell Creek itself to see the basal contacts (including a possible remnant of the Battle Formation), and the K-Pg boundary at the upper formational contact. We will also hopefully be able to access exposures of the Null Coal, which although poorly known has yielded the only radiometric date from within the Hell Creek Formation (Sprain et al., 2014), affording important insight into its duration.
One of the best places in the world to study environmental and faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary is in southwestern North Dakota, and many published studies utilized data collected from this area. This field trip will visit several important paleontological sites both immediately below and above the boundary, as well as areas with good exposures of the K/Pg tonstein, providing participants with a chance to learn about the current state of knowledge regarding this mass extinction event. Locations will range from the classic Mud Buttes area up through the area surrounding Marmarth, North Dakota. The trip will depart from and return to Dickinson, North Dakota.
Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, is located on the Pacific Coastal Plain on dissected alluvial cones formed by the rapidly flowing Rimac, Chillon and Lurin rivers. The Western Cordillera of the Andes Mountains rises abruptly east of the city and reaches altitudes of 6,100 m (20,000 ft) only 130 km (80 mi) from the Pacific Ocean. The Andes in Central Peru are relatively young mountains with the oldest exposed rock being pyroclastics of the upper Jurassic Puente Piedra Group. These are overlain by lower Cretaceous shales and quartzites of the Morro-Solar Group, followed by 1,000 m of limestone of the Pamplona and Atocongo formations of lower to middle Cretaceous age. In middle and upper Cretaceous time, volcanism resumed and 1,500 m of andesites and pyroclastics were deposited to form the Casma Group which forms the bedrock at the highest stratigraphic level. The unconformably overlying alluvial cones and beach sediments formed during the rapid rise of the Andes have been dissected by rejuvenated down-cutting to as much as 20 m (62 ft) at Lima. The geology of the Lima region reflects the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate and consequent uplift and volcanic activity. The structural geology of the bedrock underlying the Quaternary sediments in the city of Lima is dominated by the northwest-trending Lima anticline and associated synclines and reverse faults. This anticline is asymmetrical with dips of 5 to 20 degrees on the west and 35 degrees on the east. The engineering problems related to the geology of Lima concern earthquake protective design, foundation problems on unstable soils, water supply for a rapidly growing city, solid waste disposal and urban sprawl. Modern engineering practices have been introduced, with seismic design in the new building codes. Water resource planning together with modern infrastructure construction takes into account the geological setting of this large and important city.
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