Kansas Fossil Leaf
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Kansas Fossil Leaf
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Kansas really isn’t flat and boring! If you don’t believe me, stop and look around Ellsworth County west of Salina and you may find a leaf fossil similar to this one. This is the land of Dakota sandstone, a place filled with fossil plants and animals.
A lot of people immediately think of animals when the word “fossil” is mentioned. However, leaf fossils in the Dakota are pretty interesting in themselves. The Dakota Formation comprises white, gray, red, brown, and tan claystone, mudstone, shale, and siltstone, as well as interbedded and lenticular sandstone. It contains carbonaceous material, lignite, and locally sandstone cemented with calcite or iron oxide. Granular aggregates of iron oxide are seen on weathered surfaces. Grain size deposits are common in much of the claystone and mudstone. This formation occurs in north-central and western Kansas and contains fossil plants and fossilized land vertebrates.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2021 Jon Burch Photography.
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December 30th, 2021
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