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  2. Ozarks - Wikipedia

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    A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]

  3. Kansas City Group - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City is a Late Carboniferous geologic group and formation having various significant alternating beds of limestone and shale known for forming high bluffs in Missouri, Kansas, and neighboring states. This formation was named for the bluffs within Kansas City, Missouri. [3] Primary group outcrops are in northwest Missouri.

  4. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City Group/Drum Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Iola Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Westerville Formation: Carboniferous: Kansas City Group/Wyandotte Formation: Carboniferous: Kanwaka Formation: Kingsdown Formation: Pleistocene: Kiowa Shale: Cretaceous: Lansing Group/Plattsburg Formation: Carboniferous: Lansing ...

  5. Ozark Highlands (ecoregion) - Wikipedia

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    The Springfield Plateau is the only Ozark Highland Level IV ecoregion within all four states. [1] The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone; it is less rugged and wooded than Ecoregions 38, 39b, and 39c, and lacks the Ordovician dolomite and limestone of Ecoregions 39c and 39d.

  6. Ha Ha Tonka State Park - Wikipedia

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    The building was used as a summer and weekend home by the Snyder family, who lived in Kansas City. In the late 1930s, it was used as a hotel; however, it was destroyed by fire in 1942. [8] The state purchased the castle and grounds in 1978, adapting them for use as a state park and opening them to the public.

  7. Geology of Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Mushroom Rock State Park, Ellsworth County, Kansas (1916) [1]. The geology of Kansas encompasses the geologic history and the presently exposed rock and soil.Rock that crops out in the US state of Kansas was formed during the Phanerozoic eon, which consists of three geologic eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

  8. List of Missouri conservation areas - Wikipedia

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    Administrative regions used by the Conservation Department as of 2010. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) administers hundreds of parcels of land in all counties of the state.

  9. Geography of Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The latter stream, crossing the state and cutting the eastern and western borders at or near St Louis and Kansas City respectively, has a length within Missouri of 430 miles (690 km). The areas drained into the Mississippi outside the state through the St. Francis , White and other minor streams are relatively small.