About: Fencepost limestone

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Fencepost limestone, Post Rock limestone, or Stone Post is a stone bed in the Great Plains notable for its historic use as fencing and construction material in north-central Kansas resulting in unique cultural expression. The source of this stone is the topmost layer of the Greenhorn Limestone formation. It is a regional marker bed as well as a valued construction material of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Kansas. This stone was very suitable for early construction in treeless settlements and it adds a notable rust orange tint to the region's many historic stone buildings. But the most famous use is seen in the countless miles of stone posts lining country roads and highways. This status gives rise to such regional appellations as Stone Post Country, Post Rock Scenic Byway, and

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Fencepost limestone, Post Rock limestone, or Stone Post is a stone bed in the Great Plains notable for its historic use as fencing and construction material in north-central Kansas resulting in unique cultural expression. The source of this stone is the topmost layer of the Greenhorn Limestone formation. It is a regional marker bed as well as a valued construction material of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Kansas. This stone was very suitable for early construction in treeless settlements and it adds a notable rust orange tint to the region's many historic stone buildings. But the most famous use is seen in the countless miles of stone posts lining country roads and highways. This status gives rise to such regional appellations as Stone Post Country, Post Rock Scenic Byway, and The Post Rock Capital of Kansas. This rustic quality finds Fencepost limestone still used in Kansas landscaping today. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 58250461 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageInterLanguageLink
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 80986 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1081944921 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:age
  • Turonian ~ (en)
dbp:author
  • Peter Felten, Jr. (en)
dbp:caption
  • Limestone endpost with leaner, an icon of Kansas (en)
dbp:country
  • United States (en)
dbp:extent
  • Recorded in well logs throughout the High Plains. (en)
  • Outcrops from the Nebraska border near Mahaska, Kansas, about 200 miles southwest to a few miles from Dodge City, Kansas. (en)
dbp:name
  • Fencepost limestone (en)
dbp:namedby
  • F. W. Cragin (en)
dbp:namedfor
  • Use as stone fenceposts (en)
dbp:otherlithology
  • Inoceramus shells and fragments (en)
  • Microsparry calcite matrix (en)
  • Yellow, orange, or brown stainings and nodules of Limonite (en)
dbp:overlies
  • Uppermost beds of the Greenhorn Formation (en)
dbp:period
  • Cretaceous (en)
dbp:prilithology
  • Chalky limestone (en)
dbp:source
  • Commemorative plaque on the carved Fencepost limestone sign for the Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas (en)
dbp:text
  • When Europeans settled in north-central Kansas, they found vast grasslands. With few trees available, they quarried a thin, shallow bed of Cretaceous limestone for buildings, bridges, and fenceposts. No area of the world has used a single rock formation so extensively for fencing. Today that rock layer is called Fencepost limestone and north-central Kansas is known as the Land of the Post Rock. (en)
  • We’ve got the highest quality quarried limestone anywhere right here. (en)
dbp:type
dbp:underlies
dbp:unitof
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:yearTs
  • 1896 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • Fencepost limestone, Post Rock limestone, or Stone Post is a stone bed in the Great Plains notable for its historic use as fencing and construction material in north-central Kansas resulting in unique cultural expression. The source of this stone is the topmost layer of the Greenhorn Limestone formation. It is a regional marker bed as well as a valued construction material of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Kansas. This stone was very suitable for early construction in treeless settlements and it adds a notable rust orange tint to the region's many historic stone buildings. But the most famous use is seen in the countless miles of stone posts lining country roads and highways. This status gives rise to such regional appellations as Stone Post Country, Post Rock Scenic Byway, and (en)
rdfs:label
  • Fencepost limestone (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License