Rock City Gallery
Sandstone spheres up to 20 feet in diameter cover an area roughly the size of two football fields at Rock City. Known as concretions, the spheres weathered out of a sandstone layer in the Dakota Formation. The sandstone formed mainly from sand deposited along the edge of a sea that covered the western half of Kansas during the Cretaceous Period.
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Concretions at Rock City
![Cross-bedded concretions](/sites/geokansas/files/styles/landscape_col_lg_6/public/2024/images/RockCity-3.jpg?h=fd5810ea&itok=D7sDmDjA)
Cross-Bedded Concretions at Rock City
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Sandstone Concretions at Rock City
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