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The Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) is a United States Geological Survey data management, systems development, and research field center It serves as the national archive of remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface acquired by civilian satellites and aircraft.
Continental U.S. physiographic regions. Region 12e identifies the Dissected Till Plains. The Dissected Till Plains are physiographic sections of the Central Lowlands province, which in turn is part of the Interior Plains physiographic division of the United States, located in southern and western Iowa, northeastern Kansas, the southwestern corner of Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern ...
The Upper Midwest is a northern subregion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.Although the exact boundaries are not uniformly agreed upon, the region is usually defined to include the states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin; some definitions include North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Nebraska and Illinois.
The former Sioux Ordnance Depot in Cheyenne County was the site of 70% of federal oil production from the Derrick, Table and Ehmke fields. [6] Of the 2,817 active oil and gas wells in the state on January 1, 2016, the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission found that only two used hydraulic fracturing. [7]
Sioux Falls (/ ˌ s uː ˈ f ɔː l z / SOO FAWLZ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 118th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County [ 10 ] and also extends into northern Lincoln County .
The plant and animal life in the Pine Ridge is atypical for Nebraska; the ecology is very similar to the Black Hills, 50 miles (80 km) to the north.The dominant tree in the Pine Ridge is the ponderosa pine; deciduous trees (such as cottonwoods) are also present in canyon bottoms.
The economy of Sioux Falls, originally focused on agri-business and quarrying, has recently become largely centered on retail and financial services. Rapid City , with a 2007 estimated population of 63,997, [ 78 ] and a metropolitan area population of 120,279, [ 79 ] is the second-largest city in the state.
Structures of Kansas showing the Nemaha Uplift/Ridge. The Nemaha Ridge (also called the Nemaha Uplift and the Nemaha Anticline [1]) is located in the Central United States.It is a buried structural zone associated with a granite high in the Pre-Cambrian basement that extends from approximately Omaha, Nebraska to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.