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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. An isolated hill capped by Ogallala Formation conglomerates rises above a quarry in the Smoky Hill Chalk.

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  4. Tertiary Ogallala Formation capping a hill in southern Rooks County, Kansas. Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk beds are exposed in the lower slopes south of CC Road (left). This gigapan is shot from a lower vantage point in the foreground of www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2840

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  5. Tertiary Ogallala Formation capping a hill in southern Rooks County, Kansas. Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk beds are exposed in the lower slopes south of CC Road (left). The shooting location for www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2845 is near the center of this image.

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  6. Tertiary Ogallala Formation conglomerates form a resistant cap that holds up the soft, thin bedded Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Smoky Hill member chalk deposits below.

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  7. Taken just before sunset. The shadows in the bottom right of this Giagpan weren't in view when I started shooting.

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