Kansas Leaf Fossil
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Kansas Leaf Fossil
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
Nope, 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.
Image copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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December 13th, 2019
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