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Physiographic Regions of Kansas
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The Ozark Plateau
- Covers 55 Square Miles
- Home to the oldest surface rocks in Kansas
- Mostly limestone
- Poor soil for farming
- Hickory & Oak forests
- 40 inches of precipitation per year
Cherokee Lowlands
- Covers 1000 Square Miles
- Mostly shale and sandstone
- Fertile soils ideal for farmlands
- Rich in coal
- Formed from the swamps here 323 million years ago
- Coal mining began in 1874
- By the 1930s strip mining replaced digging deeper mineshafts
- 1000+ strip mine lakes
- Often 60+ feet deep
Osage Cuestas
- East facing ridges
- Up to 200 feet tall
- Mix of terrains
- Flat plains & rolling hills
- Mostly shale & limestone
- Formed over a span of 23 million years
- Ridges formed as shale eroded
Chautauqua Hills
- Average width of 10 miles
- Defined by its sandstone and shale
- Erosion left behind hills capped with sandstone
- Only region in Kansas with Black Jack Oaks and Post Oaks
Glaciated Region
- Only region in Kansas to be covered by glaciers
- One barely reaching NE Kansas
- The second covering the whole region with 500 feet of ice around 600,000 years ago
- Fertile soil called "loess" left by the glaciers
- Many Sioux Quartzite bouldres also left behind
Flint Hills
- Shale & limestone with one addition
- FLINT (chert)
- Hills protected by layers of flint
- Thin and rocky soil only suitable for ranching
- Home to the last significant area of tallgrass prairie
Wellington-Mcpherson Lowlands
- Flat to slightly rolling plains
- Thick layers of sand, silt, and rock
- Fertile soils developed over top
- Equus Aquifer
- Used by Wichita, Hutchinson, & Mcpherson
- Hutchinson Salt Bed
- Sand dunes
Smoky Hills
- Named after its hazy valleys in its eastern sandstone region
- Three rock regions
- Sandstone - Dakota Formation
- Limestone - Greenhorn Limestone
- Chalk - Niobrara Chalk
- Deposited during the Cretacious period
- Kansas was covered by the Permean Sea
Arkansas River Lowlands
- Flat rolling plains
- Sand, gravel, & other sediment deposited by the river
- Fertile soil away from the riverbanks
- Arkansas River begins high in the Rockies
Red Hills
- Shale, siltstone, & sandstone
- Colored red by Iron Oxide
- Many buttes, mesas, & caves
- Gypsum protects the hillsides
- Dissolves in water forming caves
- Gypsum still being mined in region
- Pratt Anticline contributes to minor earthquakes in the region
High Plains
- Western 1/3 of Kansas
- Mount Sunflower
- Large flat plains and gently rolling plains
- Sand & Gravel eroded from the Rockies
- Little precipitation & high winds
- Desert-type plant life
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