County: Logan

Date: July 2006

Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

Place Name: Little Jerusalem Badlands

Short description: Niobrara Chalk formations in Logan County. Little Jerusalem is owned by The Nature Conservancy, which partners with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism to make portions of the area, known as Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, open to the public. The Cretaceous-age Niobrara Chalk in western Kansas was deposited in a massive inland sea that ran north to south across west-central North America about 80 million years ago.

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