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Köppen climate types of Missouri. Missouri generally has a humid continental climate with cool, sometimes cold, winters and hot, humid, and wet summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel, the climate becomes humid subtropical. Located in the interior United States, Missouri often experiences extreme temperatures.
Missouri produces the most lead of all the states. Most of the lead mines are in the central eastern portion of the state. Missouri also ranks first or near first in the production of lime, a key ingredient in Portland cement. Missouri also has a growing science, agricultural technology, and biotechnology field.
Between the two zones is the Missouri Gravity Low, or MGL, a mass of low density granite including the Missouri batholith up to 370 miles long and 60 miles wide, identified in gravity surveys. Igneous activity ended around 1.3 billion years ago, with the intrusion of numerous dikes and sills into newly crystallized rhyolite and granite.
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
Energy & Environmental Data for Missouri; USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Missouri; U.S. Census Bureau. Missouri QuickFacts. Geographic and demographic information. "Missouri – Race and Hispanic Origin: 1810 to 1990" (PDF). (71.1 KB) USDA Missouri State Facts
The Loess Hills are a unique geographic feature of the valley. Loess , a wind-deposited soil, is compounded in slowly rising hills at various points in extreme eastern portions of Nebraska and Kansas along the Missouri River Valley, particularly near the Nebraska cities of Brownville , Rulo , Plattsmouth , Fort Calhoun , and Ponca , rising no ...
The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri, the southeastern third of Kansas, most of central Oklahoma, and extending into north-central Texas, is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas. It grades into savanna and woodland to the east and south, and into shorter, mixed-grass prairie to the west. The Osage Plains ...
Contains one of the finest Pleistocene relict habitats in Missouri. Taberville Prairie Conservation Area: 1975: St. Clair: state One of the largest remaining virgin tall grass prairies. Tucker Prairie: 1975: Callaway: private A virgin tall grass prairie occurring within the transition zone between the oak-hickory forest and typical tall grass ...