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The geology of Missouri includes deep Precambrian basement rocks formed within the last two billion years and overlain by thick sequences of marine sedimentary rocks, interspersed with igneous rocks by periods of volcanic activity. Missouri is a leading producer of lead from minerals formed in Paleozoic dolomite. [1]
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.
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]
Missouri's highest recorded temperature is 118 °F (48 °C) at Warsaw and Union on July 14, 1954, while the lowest recorded temperature is −40 °F (−40 °C) also at Warsaw on February 13, 1905. Located in Tornado Alley , Missouri also receives extreme weather in the form of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Vol. 40 (Revised ed.). Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey. LCCN 95-76805. Thompson, Thomas L. (2001). Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri (PDF). Report of Investigation Number 73. Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey. LCCN 2001089500.
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
This area has 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of mostly forested bluffs above the Missouri River and 780 acres (3.2 km 2) of Missouri River floodplain. This area also has stream frontage along the Missouri and Nodaway Rivers. 1,624 acres 657 ha: Holt
The Loess Hills region in Missouri. Today, the hills stretch from the Blood Run Site in South Dakota in the north to Mound City, Missouri in the south. Loess topography can be found 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, and the Iowa ...