Featured Missouri YouTube Videos
Featured Cave/Canyon - Grand Gulf State Park
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Grand Gulf State ParkMissouri State park site
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Grand Gulf Canyon Fills Up with RainfallOzarksFirst.com, By: Wes Peery, May 4, 2017
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Missouri’s “Little Grand Canyon” is breathtakingFox2now.com, Posted 12:18 pm, March 2, 2017, by Staff Writer, Updated at 12:17PM, March 2, 2017
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Missouri Has A Grand Canyon And It’s Too Beautiful For WordsOnlyinyourstate.com, Posted in Missouri July 20, 2016 by Stephanie Zeilenga
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Grand Gulf State Park Aerial View (video)Aerial Ozarks YouTube video, Published on Sep 22, 2016 "Known as the "Little Grand Canyon" This is a collapsed cave system outside of Thayer, MO in Oregon county." -- video description
Selected Book Resources
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Caves of Missouri
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Call Number: SBU BOL Book 557.78 B7569Publication Date: 1956Origin of Missouri's caves. -- Cave patterns. -- Solutional features. -- Phreatic solutional features. -- Vadose solutional features. -- Topographic relations of caves. -- Cave "formations" -- Deposits made in air. -- Deposits made at air-water contact. -- Deposits made under water. -- Rate of growth of cave formations. -- Missouri caves with provision for visitors: Bluff Dwellers' cave, Bridal cave, Fairy cave, Fantastic caverns, Mark Twain cave, Marvel cave, Meramec caverns, Ozark Wonder cave, Roaring River spring and cave, etc. -- Undeveloped and wild caves of Missouri (by county) -- Jasper County: Crystal Cave, Ku Klux cave. -- McDonald County: Bluffdwellers' cave, Jacob's cave, Long cave, Mystery cave, Panther cave, Polar bear cave, Saltpeter cave, Shingle Hollow cave. -- Newton County: Ben Lassiter cave, Jolly cave, Neosho Big Spring Park cave, Panther Den cave. -
Missouri Geology
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Call Number: SBU BOL Book 557.78 Un4ISBN: 0826208363Publication Date: 1992-07-01
Missouri Resources
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Association of Missouri Geologists Facebook PageFrom the website: "The Association of Missouri Geologists is a non-profit organization established to promote the study of Missouri geology in all its aspects and to promote the education, welfare, and professional status of all geologists resident in Missouri."
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Below Missouri KarstBy William R. Elliott, Ph.D, MDC Retired. March 2, 2000 From Missouri Conservationist: Mar 2000
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Devil's WellA National Park Service site, Devil's Well is a karst window
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Divers discover unseen world deep in Lewis Cave Tight underwater passageways don’t deter expert cave diversBy Wes Johnson, Springfield News-Leader
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Generalized Geology Map of MissouriMissouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey
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Geological Surveys in MissouriAn article by Arthur Winslow, Journal of Geology, v.2, no. 2, Feb.-Mar., 1894.
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Geologic assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources--Middle Eocene Claiborne Group, United States part of the Gulf of Mexico Basin2012, Hackley, Paul C. USGS Open-File Report: 2012-1144
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Geology and Metallogeny of Archean and Proterozoic Basement Terranes in the Northern Midcontinent, U.S.A. An Overview U.By P.K. SIMS, U.S. Geological Survey, and EVA B. KISVARSANYI, Missouri Geological Survey, and G.B. MOREY, Minnesota Geological Survey. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1815
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GeoSTRAT"GeoSTRAT – Geosciences Technical Resource Assessment Tool Find locations of springs, mines, sinkholes and more using the Missouri Geosciences Technical Resource Assessment Tool. GeoSTRAT is a Web application that makes geologic and hydrologic data readily available for public use. GeoSTRAT enables users to easily visualize and explore geospatial data using an interactive map. Data also can be downloaded in formats compatible with a variety of free and commercial mapping software."--http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/geostrat.htm
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Interpretive subcrop map of the Precambrian basement in the Joplin 1° x 2° quadrangleBy Pieter Berendsen and Kevin P. Blair, Kansas Geological Survey, Subsurface Geology Series 14, originally published in 1991
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Karst, Springs and Caves in MissouriA Missouri Dept. of Natural Resource website
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Missouri's Mountains: Then and NowSierraScape April - May 2006, text and photos by Becky Denney
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Missouri – The Cave StateA commercial website, this includes links to some of Missouri's show caves.
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Missouri Geologic Map IndexMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources
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Missouri Magnetic and Gravity Maps and Data: A Web Site for Distribution of DataBy Robert P. Kucks and Patricia L. Hill, Data Series 128, 2005, U.S. Geological Survey
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St. Francois Mountains – Hwy 72 Roadcut (Grassy Mountain Nonconformity)Midwestern Geology, Justin Cowart
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Structural and ground pattern analysis of Missouri and the Ozark Dome using LANDSAT-2 satellite imageryKisvarsanyi, G., 1975, NASA Grant Number NAS5-20937
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Electrical Resistivity A Shocking New Way To See Greene CountyGreeneCountyMO.gov
Missouri Rocks & Minerals
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The Mineral Industry of MissouriA USGS publication
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Mozarkite -- Missouri's Official RockMissouri Department of Natural Resources
Sinkholes
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Sinkholes in MissouriA Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources publication
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Living with our Landscape: Lessons from the 2006 Nixa, MO Sinkhole CollapseA Missouri State University resource
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DNR report reveals cause of massive Top of the Rock sinkholeWes Johnson, Springfield News-Leader, 08/06/2015
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The Sinkhole (Big Cedar Lodge, Top of the Rock)Big Cedar Lodge, Top of the Rock, Branson MO
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Top of the Rock embracing sinkholeGolf Channel, Morning Drive | Mar 30, 2016
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Bizarre 'swallow hole' suddenly appears in Wilson's CreekSpringfield News-Leader, 2017-04-24 04:00 UTC by WJOHNSON@NEWS-LEADER.COM
Missouri Paleontology Resources
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Brachiopods - PUB2915Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program fact sheet
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Crinoid - Missouri's Official State Fossil - PUB0660Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program fact sheet
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Missouri dinosaur gets exposure on Discovery cable seriesAn stlToday web resource
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Missouri Ozarks - PUB0655Geological Survey Program fact sheet
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Missouri — The Cave StateMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources. PUB0664
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Paleontology and Geology of Missouri"This site is a Paleontological research project based in St. Louis, Missouri, devoted to the study of the geological formations in Missouri. Primary focus is the study of the geological formations in the St. Louis area." - website description
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State DinosaurA MO Secretary of State resource
