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    The geology of North Dakota includes thick sequences oil and coal bearing sedimentary rocks formed in shallow seas in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, as well...
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    Hell Creek Formation (category Cretaceous geology of North Dakota)
    portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In Montana, the Hell Creek Formation overlies the Fox Hills Formation. The site of Pompeys...
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  • Tanis (fossil site) (category Cretaceous geology of North Dakota)
    paleontological site in southwestern North Dakota, United States. It is part of the heavily studied Hell Creek Formation, a geological region renowned for many significant...
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  • coordinates of the GNIS listing for Garske). U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Garske, North Dakota "Garske Colony & Sons of Jacob...
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    Lake Agassiz (category Geology of North Dakota)
    lake came to cover much of what are now southeastern Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, northern Minnesota, eastern North Dakota, and Saskatchewan. At its...
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  • University of North Dakota (also known as UND or North Dakota) is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial...
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    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...
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    Niobrara Formation (category Cretaceous geology of North Dakota)
    geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the...
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    (/ˈbɪzmɑːrk/; from 1872 to 1873: Edwinton) is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the state's 2nd most populous...
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    Trans-Hudson orogeny (category Geology of North Dakota)
    Plateau). The Black Hills of South Dakota is one of the few remaining exposed portions of the Trans-Hudson orogenic belt. The peaks of the Black Hills are 3...
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