South Dakota Section, AIPG
Summer 2001 Field Trip to Badlands

On Saturday, August 18, 2001, fifteen members and friends of South Dakota's Section of AIPG toured Badlands National Park.  The weather was perfect and the scenery spectacular.  Dr. Mark Fahrenbach of the SD Geological Survey guided the group on several stops that focused on the unique geology and paleontology of The Badlands.  Recent landslide areas, the fossil exhibit trail, the Acheotherium excavation site (i.e., "Pig Dig"), Sheep Mt. Table, Pinnacles Overlook, and several other locations were visited.   Robin Barber was the winner of the drawing for the Estwing Rock Hammer.  After the geology tour was over, most of the group continued to Quinn, SD where Ron Dyvig, President of Badlands Observatory showed us the large Newtonian telescope and observatory that he constructed for astonomical research and education.  The evening was topped off by a sighting of the International Space Station as it orbited overhead.

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