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Three very patient paleontology grad students give you a sense of scale at Castle Rock, Kansas.
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A cliff of Fort Hays Limestone caps the cutbank of this tributary of the Solomon River.
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- Loess by Ron Schott
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Loess is a wind-blown sediment that is predominantly in the clay size range. It makes for very fertile soils and there's a significant portion of western Kansas that has a fairly thick mantling of it. During the Dust Bowl Era this was the Dust.
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A very curious roadcut. On the left side of the cut the Fort Hays Limestone depositionally overlies the Blue Hill Shale. On the west side of the cut Codell sandstone is exposed in the footwall of an eastward dipping fault. Slickensides on the fault surface suggest dip-slip offset. Thing is, where it does occur the ...
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Smoky Hill chalk at the top of the Saline River roadcut (north). An excerpt of a much larger series of photographs that crashed the Stitcher program.
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An isolated hill capped by Ogallala Formation conglomerates rises above a quarry in the Smoky Hill Chalk.
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A quarry in Smoky Hill chalk.
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A small quarry and roadcut exposure of the Smoky Hill Chalk member.
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Long roadcut west of Stockton, Kansas exposing the Fort Hays Limestone.
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180+ degree panorama along 12 Road in southern Rooks County, Kansas. The distant cliff formed by the cutbank of a small stream exposes the rarely seen contact between the Fort Hays and Smoky Hill members of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk. The Fort Hays member is characterized by thick bioturbated chalk beds wher...
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