South Dakota Mines Study Shows Fossil Dissolution Rates
October 20, 2022
October 20, 2022
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Oct. 20 (TNSjou) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2022:
Weathering and erosion are constant processes on Earth, and dissolution due to rainwater is one of the primary ways rocks and minerals break down. But paleontologists have not yet gained a complete understanding of the rate fossils erode once they are exposed at the surface. South Dakota Mines graduate student Colleen Sullivan set out to g . . .
Weathering and erosion are constant processes on Earth, and dissolution due to rainwater is one of the primary ways rocks and minerals break down. But paleontologists have not yet gained a complete understanding of the rate fossils erode once they are exposed at the surface. South Dakota Mines graduate student Colleen Sullivan set out to g . . .