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Along Highway 12 - it was hard not to stop here with the sun hitting the outcrop at a nice angle. I may be wrong about this, but I think these outcrops are part of the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs formation (sandstones and shales), which has occasional organic rich layers - including coal.
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Four friends taking a light-hearted break from exploring for fossils at Quarry 3 in the Changma Basin, northwestern Gansu Province, China. From left to right, quarry worker Mr. Zhang (Fossil Research and Development Center, Lanzhou), volunteer Jack Johnson, vertebrate paleontologist Matt Lamanna (Carnegie Museum of Nat...
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Fourth of a group of five shot yesterday...
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The second of five from this afternoon...
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Overview of the outcrops of cliff-forming Fort Hays and overlying Smoky Hill Members of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation in southwest Trego County, Kansas.
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A more detailed version of a panorama that I posted yesterday, this one previously failed to properly stitch, but seems to be okay this time.
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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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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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