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 by 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 by Call Number: SBU BOL Book 557.78 Un4ISBN: 0826208363Publication Date: 1992-07-01
Missouri Paleontology Resources
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Crinoids and BrachiopodsMissouri I Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey, fact sheet 9
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Missouri dinosaur gets exposure on Discovery cable seriesAn stlToday web resource
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State DinosaurA MO Secretary of State resource
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Missouri — The Cave StateMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey, fact sheet 15
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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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Missouri OzarksMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey, fact sheet 20
Missouri Resources
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Association of Missouri GeologistsFrom 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 KarstMissouri Conservationist, published on: Mar. 2, 2000, last revision: Nov. 4, 2010, written by William R. Elliott
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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 MissouriA 2009 publication by the Missouri 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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Geologic Column of Missouri
The Geologic Column of Missouri is a magazine published by the Division of Geology and Land Survey. Each issue is dedicated to a single topic. -
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 Resources, Water Resources Center website
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KarstbaseAn online bibliography database
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Karst in the OzarksViewers can enjoy dramatic footage of some of south central Missouri’s best-known natural features, including Grand Gulf, Big Spring, Greer Spring, Mammoth Spring, and the Jacks Fork River, plus footage of caves, rare cave creatures, bluffs, and sinkholes.
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Major Structural Features of MissouriA map from the Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey
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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 IndexA Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey
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Missouri Geology Bibliography Subject SearchA Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey web resource
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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
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Synsedimentary Tectonism in the St. Francois Mountain Region, Southeast, MO.A Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Geology and Land Survey publication, by Cheryl M. Seeger and James R. Palmer
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Walk on rocks that are 1.4 billion years oldSoutheast Missourian, blog entry Posted Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 5:02 PM
Subject Guide
Coleen Rose
Contact:
Harriett K. Hutchens Library
1600 University Avenue
Bolivar, MO 65613
1600 University Avenue
Bolivar, MO 65613
417-328-1631
Missouri Rocks & Minerals
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Geologic Time Scale - Missouri Rocks, Types and UsesMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey and Resource Assessment Div. fact sheet number 12
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Geologic Resources Section, Missouri Dept. of Natural ResourcesMissouri Dept. of Natural Resources
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Missouri State Minerals InformationA USGS publication
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Minerals and miningA Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program resource
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Mozarkite — Missouri’s Official State RockMissouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey fact sheet 23
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