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Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation (Smoky Hill member) chalk, located in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. The chalk badlands at this locality owe their preservation to a caprock of Ogallala Formation conglomerates, visible atop the cliff at left and in boulders on the slope.
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Documenting a roadcut before it gets blasted anew.
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One of my favorite exposures of the Fort Hays Limestone is about to be removed for road widening. I wanted to catch a few of the parts of this roadcut that I haven't previously documented.
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Erosional remnants of the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk. The approaching thunderstorm provided a great contrast.
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Formed by damming the Smoky Hill River, Cedar Bluff Reservoir is one of the larger man-made lakes in western Kansas.
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Fossils in a stone block in one of the walls on the campus of FHSU. Many of these limestones are quarried locally - the fossils accumulated along with lime mud on the floor of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway some 80 million years ago. Something unusual happened during the stitch - the image was stretched hor...
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Castle Rock badlands from atop the Smoky Hill Chalk.
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The "Snake" shot.
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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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Two small normal faults are visible in these erosional remnants of the Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk in southeastern Gove County, Kansas.
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