Timber Lake and Area Museum

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The following is being posted on behalf of Jim Nelson; if you have any
questions
contact him (not me) directly -Roy Plotnick

TIMBER LAKE AND AREA MUSEUM, Timber Lake, S.D.

New small western South Dakota Museum seeks cooperation with university or
graduatestudent working in the Hell Creek formation. Local amateurs in
association withthe museum have been in the the field the past three summers
and would like partner(s) with a more formal knowledge of paleontology and
geology
to pursue more formal studies.

Materials collected and to be collected include Triceratops, Edmontosaurus,
Thescelasaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Edmontia, etc. The museum has access to
private land. All collections will remain the property of the Timber Lake and
Area Historical Society but are available for loan and study.

The museums collections includes marine fossils from the Fox Hills formation
and Pierre Shale and material from the Hell Creek formation.

For more information,
please call 605-865-3546 or wirte Jim Nelson, PO Box 10, Timber Lake, SD 57656

-- 
Roy E. Plotnick
Geological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
845 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607

plotnick@uic.edu
phone: 312-996-2111
fax: 312-413-2279

"The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa May Alcott