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Monument Rocks (Kansas) Monument Rocks (Kansas) Monument Rocks (also Chalk Pyramids) are a series of large chalk formations in Gove County, Kansas, rich in fossils. The formations were the first landmark chosen by the US Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark.
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LEGENDS OF KANSASHistory, Tales, and Destinations in the Land of AhsHomeMain PageWhats NewGuestbookContact & About UsLegends of AmericaKansas HistoryHistoric PeopleLegends & TalesNative AmericansWild West KansasCowtownsFortsFrontier TrailsMore ...Kansas PlacesCities & TownsGhost TownsRoute 66Scenic BywaysState ParksMore ...Legends StoreAmericanaNative AmericanOld WestRoute 66Books & MapsPostcardsPosters & Wall ArtT-Shirts & MoreMore ...Legends PhotosStates & PlacesRoute 66Old WestNative AmericanGhost TownsVideosMore ...SocialFacebookFB - Legends of AmericaFB - Ghost TownsFB- Legends StoreFB - Native AmericansFB - Legends' Photo PrintsGuestbookNewsletter-MailPhoto BlogPinterestTwitterYouTubeContact & About UsLegends Blog (2004-14) Big Springs is located about 30 miles southeast of Topeka on U.S. Highway 40. Compiled and edited by Kathy Weiser/Legends of Kansas, updated February, 2014. An old school sits quiet and abandoned in Big Springs today, Kathy Weiser, March, 2009.
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- The 2015 Symphony in the Flint Hills concert by the Kansas City Symphony will take place June 13 on the National Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Chase County, Kan., the site of the first Symphony in the Flint Hills concert in 2006.
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RATTLESNAKES The banded rock rattlesnake (C. l. klauberi), named for a noted authority on rattlesnakes, Lawrence M. Klauber, is a distinctly black-crossbanded subspecies found primarily in the two westernmost counties of Texas, but it has been reported in Val Verde County as well.lan Tennant, RATTLESNAKES, Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/tdr01), accessed October 11, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010.
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Chimney Rock National Historic Site Chimney Rock and Independence Rock further west are probably the most famous features along the Oregon Trail. It is located 20 miles southeast of Scotts Bluff National Monument, on Nebraska Route 92.ising nearly 300 feet (91 m) above the surrounding North Platte River valley, the peak of Chimney Rock is 4,226 feet (1,288 m) above sea level.
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- Here is a Google Map with nearby lodging choices. Here is another with nearby dining choices. The Great Plains Nature Center (GPNC) is a nature education facility located at 6232 E. 29th Street North in northeast Wichita, Kansas. We are located one half mile south of Kansas Highway 96 at the northwest corner of the intersection of Woodlawn and 29th Street North.
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Dome of the Rock The Dome of the Rock in the center of the Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark in Jerusalem.
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- 6425 SW 6th Avenue · Topeka, KS 66615-1099 · 785-272-8681 · kshs.org · Contact the webmaster © 2018 Kansas Historical Society. http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:RC
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LOCUST GROVE. The area produced artist and sculptor, Willard Stone, who is remembered in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. The Willard Stone Museum is located east of Locust Grove on alternate U.S. Highway 412 (Scenic 412).
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- Flat Rock is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Shelby County, Indiana. Flat Rock was platted in 1855. The community took its name from the Flatrock River. Flat Rock had its own high school at the turn of the 20th century. Flat Rock is located at 39°21′51″N 85°49′54″W / 39.36417°N 85.83167°W / 39.36417; -85.83167.
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Monument Rocks, Kansas â Pyramids of the Plains LEGENDS OF KANSAS. Monument Rocks - Pyramids of the Plains. Rising above the plains in Gove County in western Kansas is Monument Rocks, a series of large chalk formations formed some 80 million years ago. Also referred to as the Chalk Pyramids, the site was the first National Natural Landmark designated by the U.S. Department of Interior in 1968.
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Ebersole Rocks Ebersole Rocks. Ebersole Rocks has been in business since 1954. We are family run store and have always been located in Wichita Kansas. We specialize in Cabochons and Jewelry Mountings such as pendants, bracelets, belt buckles and bolo slides . Take advantage of our store liquidation today!
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Judaculla Rock Judaculla Rock. Cullowhee, North Carolina. An old linen postcard of farmer Milas Parker posing with Judaculla Rock was one of the bizarre images that first got us excited about roadside wonders. Who was that blurry old man?, we asked. Where was that weird rock? The vintage postcard that brought fame to the rock. At the time, Judaculla Rock was a nearly-forgotten, obscure oddity that proved impossible for us to find, tucked into a back hollow of the Appalachian foothills. Today, local boosters tout the rock's cultural and archeological significance, and it's easy to get to.
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- The State Capital Building is closed Sundays and Kansas state holidays. Construction of the Kansas State Capitol Building began in 1866. Although the Capitol Building was in use by the legislature starting in 1869, it took 37 years and $3,200,000 to complete.he Capitol is 399 feet by 386 feet, and 304 feet to the top of the cupola. The stone is brown sandstone from the bluffs along Deer Creek, near Vinewood, in Shawnee County, Kansas. Major renovation of the Capitol Building began in 2002 and cost $330,000,000.
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- Kansas amber was found among Cretaceous age rock, which is in the Mesozoic Era. Fossil resin and copal occur on the North American continent among strata from Triassic to Recent.
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- These Kansas fossils are records of some of the last trilobites to live on Earth. Trilobite fossils found in Kansas rocks often consist of the pygidia, or tails, of either Ameura or Ditomopyge. This specimen of Ameura was collected from the Pennsylvanian Drum Limestone of Independence, Kansas.uman fascination with trilobites apparently has a long history. Archaeologists have found trilobites associated with ancient human remains. At Arcy-sur-Cure, in France, a Silurian trilobite was found along with 15,000-year-old human remains.
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Kansas Turnpike The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile-long (380 km), freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas.It runs in a general southwest-northeast direction from the Oklahoma border to Kansas City. It passes through several major Kansas cities, including Wichita, Topeka, and Lawrence.he majority of the Kansas Turnpike, from the Oklahoma state line to Topeka, was constructed with four-inch (100 mm) asphalt. The 55 miles (89 km) from Topeka to Kansas City was built with Portland cement concrete. Curves along the turnpike are limited to 3° and grades limited to 3%.
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- Serpent Mound is in a state-owned park, open to visitors year round when the weather permits. To the west of the Serpent mount is a steep cliff above Brush Creek. On the steep cliff exposure that extends out from the top of Serpent Mound is a natural rock formation that resembles a colossal head.
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- Monument Rocks - Pyramids of the Plains. 1  Rising above the plains in Gove County in western Kansas is Monument Rocks, a series of large chalk formations formed some 80 million years ago. Also referred to as the Chalk Pyramids, the site was the first National Natural Landmark designated by the U.S. Department of Interior in 1968.
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Galena Cubic galena with calcite from Jasper County, Missouri, USA; 5.1 cm × 3.2 cm × 2.8 cm (2.0 in × 1.3 in × 1.1 in) Galena also was a major mineral of the zinc-lead mines of the tri-state district around Joplin in southwestern Missouri and the adjoining areas of Kansas and Oklahoma.
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- Unlike most of the surface rocks in Kansas, which are sedimentary in origin, kimberlite is an igneous rock, formed from the cooling of molten magma.
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- The tri-state area of southeast Iowa, northeast Missouri and western Illinois, is renowned for its geodes. The roundish hollow crystal-filled rocks are collectively referred to as Keokuk Geodes, having been named after the city of Keokuk, Iowa located in the heart of the collecting area. Most of the geodes are derived from the lower Warsaw Formation, a widespread rock unit of Mississippian age.
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- Enchanted Rock is Central Texas’s most intriguing and enigmatic natural landmark. Rising from the surrounding oak savanna amid a chain of rugged granite hills, the massive granite dome rises 325 feet from base to summit and covers an area of one square mile.
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LEGENDS OF KANSASHistory, Tales, and Destinations in the Land of AhsHomeMain PageWhats NewGuestbookContact & About UsLegends of AmericaKansas HistoryHistoric PeopleLegends & TalesNative AmericansWild West KansasCowtownsFortsFrontier TrailsMore ...Kansas PlacesCities & TownsGhost TownsRoute 66Scenic BywaysState ParksMore ...Legends StoreAmericanaNative AmericanOld WestRoute 66Books & MapsPostcardsPosters & Wall ArtT-Shirts & MoreMore ...Legends PhotosStates & PlacesRoute 66Old WestNative AmericanGhost TownsVideosMore ...SocialFacebookFB - Legends of AmericaFB - Ghost TownsFB- Legends StoreFB - Native AmericansFB - Legends' Photo PrintsGuestbookNewsletter-MailPhoto BlogPinterestTwitterYouTubeContact & About UsLegends Blog (2004-14) By 1764 French trade was well established upon the Missouri River and the eastern part of present-day Atchison County was well known to them. Lewis and Clark passed along the eastern boundary on their expedition in 1804 and spent some time in exploring the banks of the Missouri River.
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- Approximately 2,300 wells are known to have penetrated the Precambrian basement rock complex, which is shallowest at about 600 feet, over the Nemaha ridge in northeastern Kansas, and deepest at about 9,500 feet in the Hugoton Embayment.he shallowest known Precambrian rocks encountered by test wells occur in northeastern Kansas, in Nemaha County, where the surface of the Precambrian rises to 588 feet above sea level; the deepest occurrence is in the southwest, in Barber County, at 4,595 feet below sea level.
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- 1 Protection Cemetery, Comanche County, Kansas. 2  Blow Dealt Polio By 311 Sore Arms: Protection Protected, article by Hank Parkinson, The Protection Beacon, December 3, 195_. 3  Tornado seen from Protection, Kansas, 21 Mar 2005.