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Central section of the long roadcut on KS-183 north of the Saline River Valley. This cut exposes an almost complete section through the Fort Hays Limestone member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation. These chalk beds were laid down at the bottom of the shallow tropical Western Interior Seaway. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated and reworked storm deposits. Individual beds are traceable for many miles. Shaly interbeds reflect deeper water depositional conditions. |
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Long roadcut throught the Fort Hays Limestone (chalk) on KS-183 just south of Stockton, Kansas. The city of Stockton can be seen in the distance on the right side of the image. A detail of this image is at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2859 . Another detail of the fault near the top of this section is at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2166 . |
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Just up the hill from http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1955 .
It was a very cold morning. I was glad to get back in the car out out the wind while the robot did its thing. :-) |
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Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation (Smoky Hill member) chalk, located in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. The chalk badlands at this locality owe their preservation to a caprock of Ogallala Formation conglomerates, visible atop the cliff at left and in boulders on the slope. |
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Roadcut in Fort Hays Limestone on the east side of 24 Road between R and S in Rooks County, Kansas. This roadcut is directly opposite http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2841 |
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Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Fort Hays member overlying Cretaceous Carlile Shale, Codell Sandstone member. Some nice fossil details can be seen in the large blocks of Fort Hays chalk on the left. Shot in the last few minutes before sunset. The Moon is just visible at the top of the image - it was rapidly rising out of the field of view. |
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As you can see there is some blank spaces in this photograph.I was sat on top of Worbarrow Tout hill and the wind was very strong.
Worbarrow Bay is a large broad and shallow bay just to the east of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England, and is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It exposes a sequence of Cretaceous rocks from the Chalk to the west through to the Purbeck Beds in the east, where they form the promontory known as Worbarrow Tout. This is arguably one of the best coastal sections of the Cretaceous in Europe.[citation needed] Worbarrow Bay is only accessible when the Lulworth army firing ranges are open to the public. It can be reached by a 1.4-kilometre (0.9 mi) walk down an easy track alongside Tyneham Gwyle, from the car park alongside the ghost village of Tyneham. The northwest end of the bay is known as Cow Corner. |
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Pillars of Smoky Hill Chalk in the Castle Rock Badlands, south of Quinter, Kansas. I shot this one to capture the contrast in cloud types on either side of the central pillar. I'd appreciate it if a meteorologist could properly identify the cloud types in snapshots or comments. |
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Formed by damming the Smoky Hill River, Cedar Bluff Reservoir is one of the larger man-made lakes in western Kansas. |
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Tertiary Ogallala Formation conglomerates form a resistant cap that holds up the soft, thin bedded Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Smoky Hill member chalk deposits below. |