The Mammoth Site is a fossil deposit in Hot Springs, South Dakota, formed within a collapsed sinkhole that filled with warm spring water roughly one hundred and forty thousand years ago, trapping and drowning dozens of Columbian and woolly mammoths that came to drink. Excavation, ongoing since discovery in 1974, has uncovered more mammoth remains at a single site than anywhere else in North America, and the sinkhole is preserved and displayed in place inside an enclosed building.
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Category: National Natural Landmarks in South Dakota
Wikipedia category: National Natural Landmarks in South Dakota
In Discipline: Speleology, Lead paragraph
The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills
Caused By: Karstification, Lead section (caused-by Karstification)
The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
In Group: Cenozoic and Ice Age Fossil Sites, Lead sentence
The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
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