AWE-SOME KANSAS
AWE-SOME KANSAS
CHALLENGE
Help us locate some awe-inspiring natural features in Kansas. Identify an inspiring landscape, canyon, water feature, cave, natural arch, or anything naturally formed, and learn more about the geoscience behind it.
Then share its story in your own creative way - essay, artwork, photograph, song, video, ect. Provide your AWE-SOME KANSAS created story item to the Department of Geosciences no later than Nov. 19th to be displayed following Fall Break.
Shared creations can be delivered in person to Tomanek Hall 233 or emailed to geosciences@fhsu.edu. Notice: only finished quality and appropriate submissions will be put on display or shared on department digital media.
Awe-Some Kansas
2021 People's Choice
My Refuge at Cedar Bluff State Park
by Angela Pool-Funai
Nonet (descending-syllable poem) written about the chalk cliffs and pictures taken summer 2021.
Virtual Tour of Cheyenne Bottoms
submitted by Mandy Kern, produced by Kansas Wetlands Education Center
Cheyenne Bottoms, located near Great Bend, Kansas, is a 41,000-acre land-sink and considered the largest wetland complex in the interior of the United States. The basin itself was formed by the dissolution of the Hutchinson Salt Member that was deposited in an early Permian sea. The basin itself is surrounded by rock deposits of early Cretaceous Limestone. The shallow marine environment is made of Greenhorn Limestone and Graneros Shale and the terrestrial environment is of the Dakota Formation.
The Kansas Wetlands Education Center developed a virtual tour of Cheyenne Bottoms, utilizing 360-degree image photography, drone footage, interviews, videos, and interactive games to showcase the awesomeness of this Kansas natural resource.
Check out the virtual tour at https://wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu/
