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    locality near the town of Ogallala, Nebraska. The aquifer is part of the High Plains Aquifer System, and resides in the Ogallala Formation, which is the principal...
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    The Ogallala Formation is a Miocene to early Pliocene geologic formation in the central High Plains of the western United States and the location of the...
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    transcontinental railroad. The Ogallala Formation that carries the Ogallala Aquifer was named after the city. Ogallala first gained fame as a terminus...
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  • Ogallala may refer to: Ogallala, Nebraska Ogallala Aquifer Ogallala Commons Ogallala Formation Oglala Lakota (Sioux) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Palo Duro Canyon (category Rock formations of Texas)
    Trujillo Formation by a disconformity, representing a long hiatus. The coarse, porous sedimentary units of the Ogallala Formation constitute the Ogallala Aquifer...
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    plain crossed by streams flowing toward the east. During the formation of this [Ogallala] plain in central Kansas the Cretaceous [Niobrara] rocks were...
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    common on the surface and in river gravels east of the outcrops of the Ogallala Formation. In Australia, silcrete was widely used by Aboriginal people for stone...
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    crossing the Northern High Plains Aquifer system, which includes the Ogallala formation". In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for route information...
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    The Ogallala beds lie almost horizontal and structural irregularities, such as faulting, have been observed in the area. The Ogallala Formation is of...
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    Texas Midland, "The Tall City" of West Texas Downtown Odessa The Ogallala Formation is a wedge of sediments built up eastward of the Rocky Mountains as...
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    in the Pliocene age Ogallala Formation. During the years since the eruption, the adjacent rock of the Ogallala and older formations have been removed leaving...
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    in the Big Bend area. A blanket of Miocene sediments known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an important aquifer. Located...
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    in the Big Bend area. A blanket of Miocene sediments known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an important aquifer. Texas has...
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  • The formation is a very fine to fine red aeolian sandstone that rests on the resistant caprock calcrete of the Ogallala Formation. The formation is highly...
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    weathering and erosion of the exposed Ogallala, rich in calcium carbonate, contributed heavily to the formation, the resulting material is white (blanco)...
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  • Gault Formation: Copt Point, Folkestone, UK Holston Formation: Holston River, Tennessee, US Jacobsville Sandstone: Jacobsville, Michigan, US Ogallala Formation:...
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    deposition of a vast fan of eroded sediment to their east, forming the Ogallala Formation that covers much of the Panhandle. Most of the state's current stream...
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    The Valentine Formation is a geologic unit formation or member within the Ogallala unit in northcentral Nebraska near the South Dakota border. It preserves...
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    which the same formation is exposed. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In...
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    material from the uplift of the Rocky Mountains, which created the Ogallala Formation. All of the rocks in the eastern Kansas valley are sedimentary, ranging...
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    The Ash Hollow Formation of the Ogallala Group is a geological formation found in Nebraska and South Dakota. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene...
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    limestone", a distinctive pink caliche that formed at the top of the Ogallala Formation. New Elam was issued a post office in 1879. The post office was renamed...
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    deposits to the east, further from the original sediment source in the Ogallala Formation at the feet of the Rocky Mountains. Some of the most significant experimental...
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    caliche layer lies fluvial deposits called the Ogallala Formation, which contains a portion of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Caprock Escarpment, about 50 miles...
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    Lynn, 1936) Calvert Formation, Maryland, Middle Miocene (Langhian–Serravallian) †Hesperotestudo gilbertii (Hay, 1899) Ogallala Formation, Kansas, Hemphillian...
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    erupted through the formation favors a shallow, possibly ephemeral, lake. The formation has been likened to the Ogallala Formation of eastern New Mexico...
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    Mount Blanco (category Rock formations of Texas)
    lacustrine origin – deposited in a Pleistocene lake basin set upon the Ogallala Formation of middle Pliocene age, which underlies the upper surface sediments...
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    the genus. In 1944, Claude W. Hibbard diagnosed material from the Ogallala Formation of Seward County, Kansas as belonging to the new species P. adamsi...
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    the 1970s suggest that the upper level of the cap rock is of the Ogallala Formation from the Pliocene. The Pliocene layers exist further to the north...
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    KUMVP 3462, was collected by H. T. Martin from near the base of the Ogallala Formation in Sherman County, Kansas, in the summer of 1924. It was subsequently...
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