County: Trego

Date: 1965

Photographer: Grace Muilenburg/KGS

Place Name: Wildcat Canyon

Short description: Chalk beds in Wildcat Canyon in Trego County. The Niobrara Chalk formations in Trego and nearby counties were formed from sediments deposited on the bottom of a great inland sea during the later part of the Cretaceous Period, about 80 million years ago.

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