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White chalk towers against a Kansas sky, Monument Rocks

Fig. 1White chalk towers against a Kansas sky, Monument Rocks

Photo: James St. John · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Niobrara chalk pyramids on private High Plains grass — white towers, a keyhole arch, and no visitor-center fence.

Field note

The towers stand in a pasture. The keyhole is the named window. Oakley and Quinter are the towns. This plate is Monument Rocks / the Chalk Pyramids, not Monument Valley, not Little Jerusalem, and not a South Dakota clay wall.

Monument Rocks are chalk pyramids in a Gove County pasture — a keyhole arch, no visitor-center fence. Oakley and Quinter are the towns. This plate is the Chalk Pyramids, not Monument Valley and not Little Jerusalem.

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Prints from Monument Rocks


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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