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THE WHITE RIVER BADLANDS 



Amherst College sent a party into the region under 

 directon of Prof. F. B. Loomis in 1903 and another in 1907. 

 Field Columbian Museum was represented by a party under 

 Curator O. C. Farrington in 1904. The United States Geolo- 

 gical Survey renewing its investigations in 1897 under Mr. 

 N. H. Darton continued work in the region for several years, 

 the chief purpose being to study the various geological for- 

 mations with reference to underground water resources. 



Reference has been made to the fact that the South 

 Dakota badlands extend across the southern boundary of the 

 state through northwestern Nebraska into eastern Wyom- 

 ing. The northwestern Nebraska area has in recent years 



Figure 4 — The Agate Spring fossil quarries, Sioux county, Nebraska, 

 and their related topography. Holland and Peterson, 1914. A, First 

 excavation, B, Carnegie hill, C, University hill. Amherst hill lies 

 about two miles east of this. 



