NW KS Field Trip—Additional Photos

color photo of people getting off bus with small grey on far right

Unloading the bus at our first stop, the Smoky Valley Ranch Preserve.

another color photo of people getting off bus and zipping up their coats against wind

Participants get off the bus at our first stop, the Smoky Valley Ranch Preserve.

color photo of two children climbing on elm tree in dry creekbed

Dry creekbed along 12 Mile Creek, Smoky Valley Ranch Preserve.

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Outside the Keystone Gallery, Logan County.

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On the bus…

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Outcrop of Niobrara Chalk at fossil-collecting stop in Gove County.

Field trip highlights.

Guidebooks – Geology and Paleontology of Northwestern Kansas Guidebook is available online and as Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2002-42, from KGS Publications Sales office, 785-864-3965.

Many photographs by Charles Kosier, field trip participant from Wichita; others by Bob Sawin or Liz Brosius, Kansas Geological Survey.

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