Smoky Hill Chalk | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 My National Geographic moment https://boneblogger.com/my-national-geographic-moment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-national-geographic-moment Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:47:27 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1449 “A photographer from National Geographic wants to talk to you.” These words, or words to those effect, met me as I came into the museum office one day back in 2001, and they definitely caught my attention. It was 2001 and I was Assistant Director of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. We had just […]

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]]> Niobrara Chalk https://boneblogger.com/niobrara-chalk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=niobrara-chalk Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:26:52 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=176 One of the most famous formations is the Niobrara Chalk. This formation is exposed in northwest Kansas and southern Nebraska. Formations are sometimes divided into members, subsections of the formation based upon its rock type. The Niobrara Chalk has two members: the lower Fort Hays Limestone and the upper Smoky Hill Chalk. It is the […]

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