Missouri Geological Map

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  • Missouri map - [1]. Shows Maysville as Kansas City Group
  • About Missouri geologic maps - [2]
  • Paleozoic Erathem - [3]
  • Lithostratiogaphy - study of rock layers - [4]
  • Geologic time scale - 4+ billion years for earth - [5]. First life at 4B. About 500M years ago - Cambrian Explosion.
  • Kansas City Group - Kansas City formation Iola limestone, Chanute shale, Drum limestone, Cherryvale shale, Winterset limestone, Galesburg shale, Bethany, Falls limestone, Ladore shale, Hertha limestone [6]
  • Erathem - a deposit of rock over a time - [7]
  • Eonothem - rock deposit during an eon [8]
  • Eon - billion-year scale, largest geological timescale- [9]
  • Era - starting in Palezoic era with emergence of life on land - million-year timescale of recent geological history - [10]

Kansas City Group