Roadside Geology of Missouri
by Charles G. Spencer
Roadside Geology of Missouri
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| Acknowledgments |
iv
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| Preface |
v
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| Show Me the Geology |
1
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| Understanding the Earth |
1
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| Plate Tectonics |
1
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| Getting Down to Bedrock |
3
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| The Geologic Story of Missouri |
13
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| Protorozoic Eon: 2.5 Billion to 542 Million Years Ago |
13
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| Paleozoic Era: 542 to 251 Million Years Ago |
16
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| Cambrian and Ordovician Time |
19
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| Silurian and Devonian Time |
22
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| Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian Time |
24
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| Folds and Faults in Paleozoic Rocks |
31
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| The Thirty-Eighth Parallel Lineament |
33
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| Get the Lead (and Zinc) Out! |
34
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| Mesozoic Era: 251 to 65 Million Years Ago |
37
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| Cenozoic Era: 65 Million Years Ago to the Present |
38
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| Paleogene and NeogeneTime |
39
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| Quaternary Time and the Pleistocene Ice Age |
40
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| Caves, Springs, and Sinkholes |
44
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| A Tale of Two Rivers |
47
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| Harnessing the Mighity Mississippi |
49
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| Narrowing the Wide Missouri |
50
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| The Glaciated Plains |
54
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| Drainage Patterns, Then and Now |
56
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| Road Guides in the Glaciated Plains |
57
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| St. Louis Metropolitan Area |
57
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| Interstate 29: Iowa Border - Kansas City |
64
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| Interstate 35: Iowa Border - Kansas City |
67
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| Interstate 70: Columbia - Missouri River at St. Louis |
69
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| US 36: St. Joseph - Hannibal |
71
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| US 61: Alexandria - Hannibal |
76
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| US 61: Hannibal - Missouri River at St. Louis |
80
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| US 63: Iowa Border - Jefferson City |
85
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| The Osage Plains and Springfield Plateau |
93
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| The Southern Edge of the Ice |
93
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| Road Guides in the Osage Plains and Springfield Plateau |
96
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| Kansas City Metropolitan Area |
96
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| Interstate 44: Oklahoma Border - Northview |
107
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| Interstate 70: Kansas City - Columbia |
112
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| US 50: Kansas City - Sedalia |
116
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| US 54: Kansas Border - Preston |
118
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| US 65: Springfield - Arkansas Border |
121
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| US 71: Harrisonville - Arkansas Border |
127
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| The Ozarks and the St. Francois Mountains |
135
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| Filled-Sink Structures |
137
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| Meandering Valleys in the Ozarks |
140
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| Caldera Eruptions of the St. Francois Mountains |
141
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| Volcanic Rocks |
143
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| Granite Rocks |
145
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| Skrainka Diabase |
147
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| Fault-Bound Basins and the Great Unconformity |
147
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| Road Guides in the Ozarks and the St. Francois Mountains |
148
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| Interstate 44: Northview - Rolla |
148
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| Interstate 44: Rolla - St. Louis |
152
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| Interstate 55: St. Louis - Cape Girardeau |
163
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| US 50: Sedalia - Jefferson City |
170
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| US 50: Jefferson City - Interstate 44 |
173
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| US 54: Preston - Jefferson City |
178
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| US 60: Poplar Bluff - Springfield |
184
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| US 63: Jefferson City - Cabool |
189
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| US 65: Sedalia - Springfield |
199
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| US 67: Festus - Poplar Bluff |
204
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| Arcadia Valley Loop through the St. Francois Mountains |
211
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| The Southeast Lowlands |
223
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| New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 |
226
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| Sand Boils, Sand Blows, and Sand Fissures |
229
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| Could It Happen Again? |
230
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| Road Guides in the Southeast Lowlands |
231
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| Interstate 55: Cape Girardeau - Arkansas Border |
231
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| US60/Interstate 57: Illinois Border - Poplar Bluff |
236
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| Glossary |
240
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| References |
247
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| Index |
259
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