Yesterday, equally I flew from Missouri to Colorado, our road took us across the key latitudes of Kansas. The depression forenoon Sun angle in addition to clear skies provided ideal weather condition for observing the topography below in addition to I got a practiced await at the Smoky Hills.
The Smoky Hills Province of the Great Plains stretches across north-central Kansas in addition to into south-central Nebraska. It is characterized past times depression hills that convey been sculpted from Cretaceous bedrock past times the tributaries of the Smoky Hill, Saline, Solomon in addition to Republican Rivers (south to north). That bedrock, deposited inside in addition to along a Cretaceous Sea that i time covered nearly of the Great Plains region, is comprised of iii bands: Dakota Sandstone, Greenhorn Limestone in addition to Niobrara Chalk (east to west).
Those who motility across Kansas on Interstate 70, cross the southern constituent of the Smoky Hills Province betwixt Salina in addition to Hays; there, simply about ridges of the Province are adorned amongst turbines of the massive Smoky Hills Wind Farm. The High Plains border the Smoky Hills to the due west piece the Permian swath of the Flint Hills stretches due north to S to their east; the Smoky Hill River Valley demarcates the southern border of the Province.
The Smoky Hills Province of the Great Plains stretches across north-central Kansas in addition to into south-central Nebraska. It is characterized past times depression hills that convey been sculpted from Cretaceous bedrock past times the tributaries of the Smoky Hill, Saline, Solomon in addition to Republican Rivers (south to north). That bedrock, deposited inside in addition to along a Cretaceous Sea that i time covered nearly of the Great Plains region, is comprised of iii bands: Dakota Sandstone, Greenhorn Limestone in addition to Niobrara Chalk (east to west).
Those who motility across Kansas on Interstate 70, cross the southern constituent of the Smoky Hills Province betwixt Salina in addition to Hays; there, simply about ridges of the Province are adorned amongst turbines of the massive Smoky Hills Wind Farm. The High Plains border the Smoky Hills to the due west piece the Permian swath of the Flint Hills stretches due north to S to their east; the Smoky Hill River Valley demarcates the southern border of the Province.
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