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In recent years, Sandstone has gained national recognition as the home of the Midwest Country Music Theatre. Performances at this traditional country and western music venue are seen regularly on the RFD-TV satellite network. A Federal Correctional Institution rated for low-security federal inmates is in Sandstone. [10]
The earliest references to strata now referred to as Jordan were made by many of the pioneering geologists of the upper Midwest. In an 1852 report on the geology of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, D. D. Owen assigned it to the uppermost part of his “Lower Sandstone” (the “Upper Sandstone” referring to what is now called the St. Peter). [8]
The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographic and cultural region in the Midwestern United States [1] that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois. The Driftless Area is a USDA Level III Ecoregion: Ecoregion 52.
The Glenwood shale cropping out in Minneapolis, Minnesota.In this photo, it is the thin, darker layer that lies between the Platteville Limestone (above: the less-eroded, layered unit that constitutes the majority of the photo) and the St. Peter Sandstone (below: a thin, white stripe of in-place rock followed by a slope of eroded St. Peter Sandstone material).
The geology of the southwest includes old rocks, the 3.6 billion year old Morton Gneiss and the Paleoproterozoic Sioux Quartzite, overlain by the Cretaceous sedimentary sequence that includes the Dakota Sandstone, Niobrara Formation, and Pierre Shale, and is continuous across much of the western Midwest to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Sandstone Township is a township in Pine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,614 at the 2000 census. The population was 1,614 at the 2000 census. Sandstone Township was named for sandstone outcroppings near the Kettle River .
Paleozoic Stratigraphy of the Upper Midwest, USA; Dates approximate: Maquoketa Group (446–440 Ma) Galena Group (454–446 Ma) Dubuque Formation (447–446 Ma) Wise Lake Formation (449.4–447 Ma) Decorah Shale (454–452 Ma) Platteville Limestone (455–454 Ma) Glenwood Shale (~455 Ma) St. Peter Sandstone (~459–~455 Ma) Knox Unconformity ...
Natural sandstone pillars have been noted in two other areas of the county. The community and township of Castle Rock are eponymous with a similar formation which later collapsed. Lone Rock in Empire Township was noted by Zebulon Pike in the early 1800s, but has since eroded significantly. Stereoscopic image of Castle Rock by Benjamin Franklin ...