Tour South Dakota's Black Hills to find rich fossil deposits amid eroded hills and gullies
The Black Hills, including the Badlands, in South Dakota
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NARRATOR: Bursting through the Great Plains in South Dakota and Wyoming is an eroded dome-shaped mountain mass known as the Black Hills.
In one part of the Black Hills in South Dakota, thousands of years of erosion have created the Badlands, an area of deep gullies and jagged hills rich in fossilized remains of prehistoric life.
In one part of the Black Hills in South Dakota, thousands of years of erosion have created the Badlands, an area of deep gullies and jagged hills rich in fossilized remains of prehistoric life.
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