Badlands trip

Question 1

Identify this geological feature:

A carbonaceous zone, mainly lignite and/or lignite shale, that marks moste of the contact between the Bullion Creek and Sentinel Butte Formations.

Answer 1

HT Butte Formation

Question 2

Identify this geological feature:

Comprised of gray to brown siltstone, claystone, sandstone, and lignite that was deposited in river, lake, and samp environments.

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Sentinal Butte formation

Question 3

Identify this geological feature:

A soft, plastic, porous, light-colored rock composed essentially of clay minerals. It’s color ranges from white to light green and light blue when fresh, becoming light cream on exposure and gradually changing to yellow, red, or brown. The rock is greasy and soaplike to the touch (without gritty feeling), and commonly has the ability to absorb large quantities of water accompanied by an increase in volue of about 8 times.

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bentonite

Question 4

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A brownish-black coal that is intermediate in coalifiction between peat and subbituminous coal. Also known as brown coal.

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lignite

Question 5

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A term used for fine-grained siliceous rocks with a texture and a fracture resembling those of unglazed porcelain.

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porcelanite

Question 6

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Local terminology to describe “clinker.”

Sediment that has been baked to a degree by heat from buried, burning coal (lignite). May range from rock that has completely melted, to material with a glassy texture, to brick, to slightly colored and hardened material.

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scoria

Question 7

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common juniper

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ground juniper

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western snowberry

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golden currant

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skunk bush

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green ash

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cottonwood

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chokecherry

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buffalo berry

Question 16

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yellow warbler

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rufous sided towhee

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common flicker

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mourning dove

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black warbler

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white warbler

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turkey

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pheasant

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sharp-tailed grouse

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red-tailed hawk

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eastern bluebird

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canada goose

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bison

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feral horse

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elk

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mule deer

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black-tailed prairie dog

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black widow spider

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green racer

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sunsnake

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yellow-bellied race

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bull snake

Question 38

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coyote

Question 39

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prairie evening primrose

Question 40

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godlen pea

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blue beardtongue

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needle grass

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little bluestem

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leafy musineon

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moss phlox

Question 46

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buffalo grass

Question 47

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poison ivy