The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily...

deposits from the Cretaceous period and expose chalk, limestone, and sandstone rock outcroppings. The Smoky Hills region is part of the Plains Border subregion...

composed of two structural units, the Smoky Hill Chalk Member overlying the Fort Hays Limestone Member. The chalk formed from the accumulation of coccoliths...

page 245. Carpenter, K. (2003). "Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Formation) and the Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale)."...

altered volcanic ash, called bentonite, that occur within the chalk comprising the Smoky Hill Chalk Member. A few of these concretions enclose, at least in...

Charles Marsh in 1871, in the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk deposits of western Kansas. These chalk beds were deposited at the bottom of what was once...

distance north of Scott City. The park features 220 acres (89 ha) of Smoky Hill Chalk badlands with many narrow canyons in white rock likened to the walls...

fragments to more complete skeletons) have been recovered, all from the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation (dating to the early Campanian age...

the Smoky Hill Chalk Part 2: Sharks and Bony Fish". Oceans of Kansas. Retrieved 12 June 2019. Everhart, Mike. "A Field Guide to the Smoky Hill Chalk Part...

distinctive features is a mile-long stretch of Smoky Hill Chalk bluffs that tower 100 feet (30 m) high over the Smoky Hill River and are dubbed "Little Jerusalem"...