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  1. Detail of the lower Fort Hays Limestone. These chalk beds are extensively bioturbated and thus lack many original sedimentary structures.

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  2. Central section of the long roadcut on KS-183 north of the Saline River Valley. This cut exposes an almost complete section through the Fort Hays Limestone member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation. These chalk beds were laid down at the bottom of the shallow tropical Western Interior Seaway. The thick beds of the...

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  3. 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 Will open in a new tab or window) of the region?

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  4. The Niobrara Formation, Fort Hays Member here conformably overlies the Blue Hill Shale member of the Carlile Shale. The Codell Sandstone member of the Carlile Shale is not present here although the uppermost shaly layers of the Blue Hill are somewhat sandier than lower down. All units are Cretaceous in age and were d...

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  5. Just up the hill from www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1955 . It was a very cold morning. I was glad to get back in the car out out the wind while the robot did its thing. :-)

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  6. Taken just after sunrise. The sun ducked behind a cloud for the right side of the panorama.

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  7. Roadcut in Quaternary alluvium, south edge of Solomon River valley, west of Stockton, Kansas

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