The Dakota is a sedimentary geologic unit name of formation and group rank in Midwestern North America. The Dakota units are generally composed of sandstones...

Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The formation was initially described by geologist J. W. Nordquist in 1953. The formation is entirely in...

Montana. The formation stretches over portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In Montana, the Hell Creek Formation overlies the...

conglomerate. Locally, it is the uppermost member and has contact with the Dakota Formation. Jackpile Sandstone Member (NM): primarily a whitish crossbedded subarkose...

unincorporated community Dakota City, Iowa Dakota City, Nebraska Dakota County, Minnesota Dakota County, Nebraska Dakota Formation, a North American geologic...

Dakota (specimen NDGS 2000) is the nickname given to an important Edmontosaurus fossil found in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. It is about 67...

unearthed at the Hell Creek Formation and the nearby Lance Formation. Undescribed pterosaur remains were reported from North Dakota. A specimen of an azhdarchid...

of the Niobrara Chalk is comparable to that of the Dakota Formation, although the Dakota Formation, which was deposited during the Cenomanian, predates...

of the Niobrara Chalk is comparable to that of the Dakota Formation, although the Dakota Formation, which was deposited during the Cenomanian, predates...

rivers exit the mountains. The ridge takes its name from the Dakota Formation, a formation with resistant sandstone beds that cap the ridge. The hogback...

sedimentary strata that have widely been called Dakota Formation in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. The use of the name "Dakota" in western states was the result of early...

North Dakota ( /dəˈkoʊtə/ də-KOH-tə) is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. It is bordered by the Canadian...

Coronado Heights is one of a chain of seven sandstone bluffs in the Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet. In 1915, a professor at Bethany College...

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress. She rose to prominence as a child actress at the age of seven for playing the daughter...

Paracimexomys group. The genus Dakotamys ("Dakota mouse") was named by Eaton J.G. in 1995. Dakota refers to the Dakota Formation. "Paracimexomys and Dakotamys.....

differential erosion of well-cemented sandstones of the Cretaceous Dakota Formation, which form the dip slope of this hogback, overlying the less erosion-resistant...

Shale, terrestrial Newcastle Sandstone (a tongue of Dakota Formation from the southeast of South Dakota), and marine Skull Creek Shale. This group definition...

Shale conformity overlies the Dakota Formation and underlies the Straight Cliffs Formation. The top of the Dakota Formation is known for its sandier coarsening...

correlates with the lower Dakota Formation (Nishnabotna member) known in the southwest corner of the State. The South Dakota Geological Survey has also...

South Dakota (/dəˈkoʊtə/ də-KOH-tə; Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga, pronounced [daˈkˣota iˈtokaga]) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United...

rocks on the east side of Dinosaur Ridge are part of the Cretaceous Dakota Formation. When Alameda Parkway was being constructed in 1937 (by the WPA) in...

The North Dakota oil boom was the period of rapidly expanding oil extraction from the Bakken Formation in the state of North Dakota that lasted from the...

mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak, which rises to...

The North Dakota Democratic Party was a political party in North Dakota that existed from the state's formation in 1889 until 1956, when the party merged...

The Ludlow Formation is a geologic formation in western North Dakota. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene Period. Paleontology portal List...

The governor of South Dakota is the head of government of South Dakota. The governor is elected to a four-year term in even years when there is no presidential...

largest city in North Dakota. Stanley was founded in 1902. The town's economy is heavily connected to the nearby oil-rich Bakken Formation. Stanley was platted...

Dilcher, David L. (1 January 1994). "Lower vascular plants of the Dakota Formation in Kansas and Nebraska, USA". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology...

between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation (sometimes formerly called the Dakota Formation). It is composed of non-marine...

Deadwood Formation is a geologic formation of the Williston Basin and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in parts of North and South Dakota and...