Exploring extreme and unusual geology in the stable midcontinent
Subtitle: field excursions for the 2019 GSA South-Central, North-Central, and Rocky Mountain sections joint meeting
By: edited by Marcia K. Schulmeister (Earth Science Department, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas), James S. Aber (Earth Science Department, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas)
Series: Field guide -- 52; Field guide (Geological Society of America) -- 52
Publisher: The Geological Society of America
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780813700526
Subjects: Geology; Congresses; Guidebooks
Description: "The papers in this volume illustrate unique, but often overlooked, geologic events of the last 300 million years. Rock outcrops and landscapes, ranging in age from Upper Pennsylvanian through the Anthropocene, are presented that address the following themes: cyclothems, a Permian salt giant, Midcontinent kimberlite intrusions, and Midcontinent glaciation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Geology of the Flint Hills, Kansas : sea-level and climate changes in the Permian / Karin Goldberg and Keith B. Miller; title: The science and industry of the Permian Hutchinson salt / Marcia K. Schulmeister, Anna Sofia Andeskie, and Kathleen C. Benison; title: Windows into the Cretaceous mantle of the North American Midcontinent-Kimberlites of Riley County, Kansas / Pamela D. Kempton, KayLeigh Rogers, and Matthew E. Brueseke; title: Trails west and the Civil War in the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, region / James S. Aber and Susan W. Aber.