Geology Picture of the Week, April 6-12, 2008: In Honor of Kansas

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[cogitator]

In honor of the win by the Kansas men's basketball team last night, I thought I'd post a couple of geological highlights from Kansas. People don't normally think of Kansas as a place with a lot of exciting geology, but it's got its places.

Monument Rocks

site: Paul Wicks (Nice!)

Another Monument Rocks picture

Rock City

Konza Prairie

Butcher Falls

(Well, what did you expect?)

[cogitator]

Most of the geological features of Kansas have a particularly sedimentary aspect.

[Just another Joe]

Most of the geological features of Kansas have a particularly sedimentary aspect.

Are you SURE you didn't mean sedentary? ;^)

[cogitator]

** ping! **

[bert]

I have hiked on the Konza Prarie and have phoyos from near that spot.

[Red Badger]

I remember a few years back, somebody tested a pancake for “flatness” and multiplied the numbers up to the size of Kansas. They discovered that Kansas really WAS FLATTER than a PANCAKE!.................

[Red Badger]

I have hiked on the Konza Prarie and have phoyos from near that spot.

They've got shots for that now, I think.........

[Red Badger]

I’ve driven across Kansas twice on I-70 both ways East-West. I fell asleep at the wheel in Kansas City and woke up in Denver..............

[razorback-bert]

The Mississippi Delta is flat, Kansas is rolling land.

[Red Badger]

I live in Florida Panhandle (right under Alabama). I have been to every corner of this state many times. I’d be willing to bet that Florida is way flatter than Kansas.............

[bert]

The prarie is on I 70.

Next time, turn off the interstate and drive a mile or so, part on a dirt road, to the access area. Take a walk out on those prarie hills and marvel at the number of different plants. Take in the flowers growing amidst the grass.

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness. What was worth crossing this immense, seemingly unending sea of grass.

Check out how the farmers have adapted their living quarters to the land and seem to thrive in the midst of mile after mile of land.

[Red Badger]

I often wondered why the pioneers didn’t just stop and start farming right there, instead of crossing the Rockies and the Sierras. Didn’t it dawn on them that the huge buffalo herds fertilized and thrived on that land for thousands of years?.............

[geezerwheezer]

I don’t know how you do it, but each week the photos you show us are better and better! Thanks!!

[JimSEA]

Most of the geological features of Kansas have a particularly sedimentary aspect.

Life is much easier when my wife is feeling sedimentary than when she goes igneous.

[aft_lizard]

I remember growing up in Dodge City and traveling south towards the Big Basin and thinking to myself Kansas is not that flat.But once I got around to some other points around the state and realized a vast amount of the state really is flat and empty.

[mtbopfuyn]

Who’da thunk Kansas could grow such big mushrooms?

[SuziQ]

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness. What was worth crossing this immense, seemingly unending sea of grass.

Probably they wanted to see if the area beyond it was better looking. ;o)
I've only been across Kansas once, and I don't remember it at all. We were coming from CO back to MS, Daddy was driving, and I slept the whole way. ;o)

[bert]

So I guess that good conservatives as well as the MSM are in agreement. Only the description is different.

Conservatives call it “sleep through country” whereas the mediots call it “fly over country” :}

[Robert A Cook PE]

OK, OK, OK.

How long did you have to look to find a waterfall in KS? 8<)

[WSGilcrest]

Drove across Kansas in a Continential Trailways with a clogged fuel filter. Three miles an hour. Hmmph!

[Hot Tabasco]

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness.

Knowing they'd have to live there if they didn't keep moving........