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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
S. W. Williston and the Exploration of the Niobrara Chalk
S. W. Williston and the Exploration of the Niobrara Chalk
Page Range: 138 – 142
Samuel Wendell Williston spent most of his formative years as a scientist in the exploration of the Niobrara Chalk in Kansas. Much of this work was summarized in early reports of the Kansas State Geological Survey and still provides a sound basis for our modern understanding of the Niobrara Chalk and its paleoecology. This was one of the first fossil communities to become widely known to the general public.
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