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Janesville Shale: Kansas City Group/Drum Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Iola Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Westerville Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Wyandotte Formation: Carboniferous: Kanwaka Formation: Kingsdown Formation: Pleistocene: Kiowa Shale: Cretaceous: Lansing Group/Plattsburg Formation ...
Indian Rock Park includes this hill and the surrounding area with fields, cliffs, and recreational trails. Glennifer Hill Drive leads to the hilltop for parking, a panoramic city view, and trails into the diversion channel as well as to the Wellington shale exposed by the abandoned brick factory quarry now named Indian Rock Lake. [22] [25] [26]
Some terrestrial soils accumulated in the Jurassic, raising the Red Hills of southern Kansas and western Oklahoma. [4] Broadly, the definition of the Kiowa unit is restricted to marine deposits, mostly the massive shale. Pyrite-rich (iron disulfide) terrestrial mud, sand, and gravel below the marine shale are assigned to the Cheyenne Sandstone ...
Mushroom Rock State Park, Ellsworth County, Kansas (1916) [1]. The geology of Kansas encompasses the geologic history and the presently exposed rock and soil.Rock that crops out in the US state of Kansas was formed during the Phanerozoic eon, which consists of three geologic eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Kansas City is a Late Carboniferous geologic group and formation having various significant alternating beds of limestone and shale known for forming high bluffs in Missouri, Kansas, and neighboring states. This formation was named for the bluffs within Kansas City, Missouri. [3] Primary group outcrops are in northwest Missouri.
Kansas: Country: United States: The Weston Shale is a geologic formation in Kansas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. See also
The Carlile Shale is a Turonian age Upper/Late Cretaceous series shale geologic formation in the central-western United States, including in the Great Plains region of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Kansas, Oklahoma: Country: United States: The Vilas Shale is a geologic formation in Kansas and Oklahoma. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.