County: Gove

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Photographer: Grace Muilenburg/KGS

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Short description: Niobrara Chalk badlands near Castle Rock in Gove County. 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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