Limestone at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
County: Chase
Date: June 22, 2016
Photographer: Catherine Evans/KGS
Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Short description: The Permian-age Crouse Limestone layer near the Red House Spring at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Established in 1996, the 11,000-acre preserve in the Flint Hills represents a portion of the 170,000 acres of tallgrass prairie that once covered the central United States.
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