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  1. Roadcut in Quaternary alluvium, south edge of Solomon River valley, west of Stockton, Kansas. Same site as www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1885 but with better lighting and less vignetting.

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  2. A cliff of Fort Hays Limestone caps the cutbank of this tributary of the Solomon River.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. An isolated hill capped by Ogallala Formation conglomerates rises above a quarry in the Smoky Hill Chalk.

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  6. A quarry in Smoky Hill chalk.

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  7. A small quarry and roadcut exposure of the Smoky Hill Chalk member.

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  8. Long roadcut west of Stockton, Kansas exposing the Fort Hays Limestone.

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  9. 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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  10. Long roadcut throught the Fort Hays Limestone (chalk) on KS-183 just south of Stockton, Kansas. The city of Stockton can be seen in the distance on the right side of the image. A detail of this image is at www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2859 . Another detail of the fault near the top of this section is at...

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