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The Flatrock River, also known as Flatrock Creek and other variants of the two names, [2] is a 98-mile-long (158 km) [3] tributary of the East Fork of the White River in east-central Indiana in the United States. [4] Via the White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 532 square miles ...
St. Paul or Saint Paul [2] is a small town on the border of Decatur and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The population was 1,031 at the 2010 census . History
This formation was named by Moses N. Elrod, M.D. in 1883. He wrote about in a report about the geology of Decatur County, Indiana. "The Upper Niagara shale bed, is the calcareous clay, shale and thin strata of limestone overlying the quarry stone, and closing the Niagara period and group. The greater per cent of the mass is carbonate of lime.
Feb. 27—WHITE ROCK — Tim Benjamin took a break from delving into his sloppy Joe sandwich at the White Rock Senior Center to consider the surprising news. White Rock has been named the happiest ...
Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River.The oldest mounds were constructed about 2,500 years ago by local Indigenous people linked to the Archaic period, who may have been inspired by the burial style known as the Hopewell Tradition. [4]
The Rockhouse Cliffs Rockshelters (12PE98 and 12PE100) are a pair of rockshelters in the far southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana.Located amid broken terrain in the Hoosier National Forest, the shelters may have been inhabited for more than ten thousand years by peoples ranging from the Early Archaic period until the twentieth century.
Jug Rock Jug Rock photo taken in 2010. Jug Rock is a natural geological formation located outside of Shoals, Indiana, in the valley of the East Fork of the White River.It is composed of sandstone, and is the largest free-standing table rock formation (also called a "mushroom rock") in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
The most visible of these are the 156-foot (48 m) to 166-foot (51 m) thick layer of St. Peter Sandstone, the lowest layer of sedimentary rock above the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, which is overlain by a thin—3-foot (1 m) to 5.5-foot (2 m) thick—layer of Glenwood Shale, and capped by a 28-foot (9 m) thick layer of Platteville Limestone. [8]