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On the Quartzite Trail
SouthDakotaMagazine.com | John Andrews
Here’s a geologic treasure in southeastern South Dakota that has been here longer than our famed petrified forests or the prehistoric fossils painstakingly brushed from the soil. Outcroppings of ultra-hard, 1.6-billion-year-old Sioux quartzite protrude from grassy prairies and riverbanks over 6,000 square miles from the James River eastward into Minnesota and Iowa. People have placed significance upon the unique pink rocks for centuries, but Jim Kersten believes that what he calls “quartzite country” holds even more potential.
