Great Plains Geology
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Roadcut in shales south of Wilson Lake, Kansas. Can you identify it's proper place in the stratigraphy (www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/09_meso.html#CRET
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Distant cliffs of Fort Hays Limestone. Use red/blue glasses to view the anaglyph 3D effect. Created from two 12x3 Gigapan images shot about 1 foot apart. Alignment, cropping, and anaglyph shading done in Photoshop.
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Rock City is a local park near Minneapolis, Kansas where dozens of meter-scale concretions of Dakota Sandstone have remained resistant to weathering. Berti and Edi (the rock gnomes) had a field day! See if you can find and snapshot them in all of their hiding places.
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Time for those red-blue glasses again! And Wow! Look at that depth of field!
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Right eye view of the anaglyph GigaPan found here: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/12345/
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Normal fault in the Fort Hays member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, south of Stockton, Kansas. These chalk beds were originally deposited in the shallow Western Interior Seaway about 80 million years ago. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated. Faulting is post-Cretaceous and pre-Q...
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Long roadcut west of Stockton, Kansas exposing the Fort Hays Limestone.
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- View of the flooded Missouri River from the First National Building in downtown Omaha. by Chris Machian
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View of the flooded Missouri River from the First National Bank building looking east from downtown Omaha into Council Bluffs Iowa Wednesday evening June 29, 2011. The river was about 36 feet high, flood stage for this area is 29 feet. To view my other flood gigapans: www.omaha.com/article/20110629/NEWS01/3
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What a perfect evening for Gigapanning! Good light (no clouds), no wind, and a beautiful view (for Kansas). I think I managed to miss shooting any of the boats on the lake, but if you look at the water you can see the wake of one of them as it approaches the camera - it gives you a sense of the time it takes for the ...
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Roadcut in Fort Hays Limestone on the west side of 24 Road between R and S in Rooks County, Kansas. This roadcut is directly opposite www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2849 . A detail of this roadcut can be seen at www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2826
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