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The Tioga Bentonites are a series of ash bed layers occurring in three Sedimentary basins in the eastern and midwestern United States. The primary basin they are found in is the Appalachian Basin, as well as the Illinois Basin and the Michigan Basin. Due to an unconformity these ash beds are not present in the southern Appalachians. [1]
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
Water and mud walls inside Bluespring Caverns Bluespring Caverns is a cave system located in Lawrence County, Indiana , approximately 80 miles (128 km) south of Indianapolis . The cave system is a karst and river type cave formation and drains a 15 miles² (38.8 km 2 ) sinkhole plain.
Bentonite layers from an ancient deposit of weathered volcanic ash tuff in Wyoming Gray shale and bentonites (Benton Shale; Colorado Springs, Colorado). Bentonite (/ ˈ b ɛ n t ə n aɪ t / BEN-tə-nyte) [1] [2] is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite (a type of smectite) which can either be Na-montmorillonite or Ca-montmorillonite.
The volcanic eruption that produced the Deicke K-bentonite bed which has been dated to 457.1 ±1.0, which was calculated using a concordant uranium-lead dating zircon fraction. [2] The Deicke and Millbrig eruptions have a minimal estimation of 600,000 km 2 (230,000 sq mi) covered and at least 1,122 km 3 (269 cu mi) of pre-compaction bentonite ...
The Monument Mountain in Wyandotte Caves, Indiana, is a cluster of large stalagmites on a breakdown pile. The ceiling is a classic tension dome. Wyandotte Caves began to form in the Pliocene Era, about 2 million years ago. [3] Like most of Southern Indiana's caves, the caves were formed when water dissolved limestone, causing hollow caves to form.
Angel Mounds State Historic Site (), [3] an expression of the Mississippian culture, is an archaeological site managed by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites that includes more than 600 acres (240 hectares) of land about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of present-day Evansville, in Vanderburgh and Warrick counties in Indiana.
The lake is the largest entirely situated in Indiana with 10,750 acres (43.5 km 2) of water surface area spread over the counties of Monroe and Brown. Capacity varies from 292 gigalitres (237,000 acre⋅ft) to 428 gigalitres (347,000 acre⋅ft) [ 2 ] depending on water level.