Castle Rock
County: Gove
Date: 1984
Photographer: John Charlton/KGS
Place Name: Castle Rock
Short description: Castle Rock is part of the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk. The massive layers of chalk formed from sediments deposited on the bottom of a great inland sea that covered much of western North America during the later part of the Cretaceous Period, about 80 million years ago. Castle Rock was a landmark on the Smoky Hill Trail.
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