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Colleen Sullivan, who authored a newly published paper quantifying fossil erosion, is shown here working in a lab at South Dakota Mines on her research. (Courtesy of South Dakota Mines)

Mines student recognized for research on fossil dissolution rates

BY: - October 25, 2022

RAPID CITY — A South Dakota Mines graduate student has published research on the rate that fossils erode when they’re exposed to the surface. Colleen Sullivan’s research has just been published in the peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal PLOS ONE. In a news release from Mines, Sullivan said she was studying the effect of rain on […]