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The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) is a research and service division of the University of Kansas, charged by statute [1] with studying and providing information on the geologic resources of Kansas. The KGS has no regulatory authority and does not take positions on natural resource issues.
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.
The Equus Beds Aquifer is a distinct part the High Plains Aquifer System [1] and is a principal municipal aquifer in south-central Kansas, [2] underlying Hutchinson, McPherson, Newton, and Wichita. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Merriam accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Geology at Syracuse University in 1971 and moved to the same position at Wichita State University in 1981, [2] coming back to the Kansas Geological Survey in 1991 to retire in 1997, [3] remaining as an Emeritus Scientist.
The Wichita Mountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [1] It is the principal relief system in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen , being the result of a failed continental rift.
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (RGSC) – England; Royal Geological Society of Ireland; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh – Scotland; Sedgwick Club – University of Cambridge, England; South Wales Geologists' Association (SWGA) – Wales; Westmorland Geological Society – England; Yorkshire Geological Society – England
Paul Tasch (born November 28, 1910, in New York City, died July 13, 2001, in Wichita, Kansas) was an American paleontologist. [2] Tasch served in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II. He graduated from City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1948, and from Pennsylvania State University with a master's degree in 1950.
He organized the Kansas Geological Survey in 1894, and wrote several volumes of the survey from 1896 to 1904. [2] He was state geologist from 1894 to 1915. In this position, he was instrumental in finding an ample water supply for Wichita and Newton .