County: Marshall

Date: June 1951

Photographer: John C. Frye/KGS

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Short description: Sioux quartzite boulder in Marshall County. Quartzite boulders that litter hillsides in parts of northeastern Kansas were carried in from the north by glaciers about 700,000 years ago.

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