There is much more to come - this is a work in progress.

Participants will be required to: 1) keep a detailed notebook in the field which will be collected at the end of the trip, and 2) to give a presentation on a topic of their choosing. Possible topics.

A link to an essay on taking notes in the field.

Links to Black Hills geology:

• Virtual geologic tour of the Black Hills.
• Wind Cave National Park bibliography on Black Hills.
• National Park site on Devils Tower.
• Hot Springs Mammoth Site.
• Pegmatites in the Black Hills.
• South Dakota Geological Survey.
• South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Geology Museum.
• Homestake Gold Mine.
• National Badlands.
• USGS Black Hills hydrology study.
• USGS study on sypsum karst in Black Hills.

References:

• Gries, J. P. 1996. Roadside Geology of South Dakota. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula (MT), 356 p.
• Feldman, R. M. & Heimlich, R. A., 1980, Field Guide The Black Hills, Kendall Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa 190 p.
• Zaprowski, Brent J., Evenson, Edward B., Pazzaglia, Frank J., Epstein, Jack B. Knickzone propagation in the Black Hills and northern High Plains: A different perspective on the late Cenozoic exhumation of the Laramide Rocky Mountains; Geology 2001 29: 547-550