Research

The Museum of Geology holds itself to a high standard of research.  As seen in our student research we have many and varied interests.  The main focus is on fossils from the Badlands of South Dakota and the Marine Reptiles that once lived in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway that divided North America during the Age of the Dinosaurs.  Many students focus on biostratigraphy, the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them, in their research.  The staff, while busy with teaching, managing collections or the museum, finds time to actively research their interests.  Check out the Staff, Student, and Recent Publications pages for more information.