Great Plains Geology
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Left eye view of the anaglyph GigaPan found here: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/3527/
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Fifth of five from yesterday's field expedition.
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Looking west at workers inspecting the levee southwest of Hamburg Iowa, Wednesday afternoon, June 22, 2011. Missouri River flooding has broken through at several points in the federal levee system. This levee is a man-made one that was hurriedly built before the water reached the town using soil dug out of nearby far...
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View of the Missouri River flood from the Lewis and Clark Monument in Council Bluffs Iowa, looking west towards downtown Omaha in the background. July 6, 2011. At 9:15 am the river was 35.5 Feet, flood stage is 29 feet. You can also see Interstate 29 flooded in the background.
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Alfalfa field with a stream running through the middle of it. Hill of Dakota Sandstone on the left. Old farm with windmill on the right. At the right side of this 24 minute pan I had to adjust the exposure to keep up with the fading light.
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Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. Historically it was an important landmark on the Butterfield Overland Trail. (Berti is still hiding. Snapshot him if you find him!)
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Erosional remnants of the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk. The approaching thunderstorm provided a great contrast.
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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-Quat...
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The Tertiary Ogallala Formation is best known as the host rock for one of the largest freshwater aquifers on Earth. In Ellis County, Kansas the Ogallala is exposed at the surface and forms resistant hill-capping exposures such as the ones seen in this Gigapan. My largest Gigapan yet at 2.45 gigapixels, this monster...
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This view is toward Wilson Lake from Kansas 232, north of Wilson, Kansas. The knob on the right side of the image is an erosional remnant of Cretaceous aged Dakota Sandstone. Good large-scale bedding features are visible on zooming.
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