Roses of Kanoplis Lake EarthCache
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You will have to buy a park pass to get to the Earth cache. The above coordinates will take you to the closest parking area.From the parking area you will have to take the trail down to the shoreline. Once you get down there the coordinates you will want are 38 39.896/ 098 00.105.
Barite is a common mineral in Kansas, but it is not found in large quantities. It occurs as a cementing material between sand grains in peculiar roselike concretations called "desert roses" or "petrified walnuts" of the Cretaceous Kiowa Shale.
Barite resembles gypsum, calcite or celestite. It can be distinguished from gypsum and calcite by its heavy weight.
They can look like flowers that have turned to stone. They can also appear like breakfast cereal flakes bound together haphazardly. Since the outsides of the stone have bonded with sand, they take on the color of the sand.
Barite roses form out of two minerals. One of those is barite, which is the heavier of the two. The other is a type of gypsum called selenite. Selenite is one of the softer minerals, able to be scratched with something that is as soft as a fingernail. On the Moh's scale of hardness designed for minerals, selenite rates a 2. To put this in perspective, a diamond is a 10 and talc is a 1. Barite roses made of gypsum have more defined edges than those composed of barite.
To claim this Earth Cache email mail me the following:
1) Send me the color of the roses you find here.
2) Send me the size of the roses you find.
PLEASE REMEMBER DO NOT TAKE ANY ROSES WITH YOU..ONLY PICTURES! ALSO TRY TO DO CACHE IN TRASH OUT! I HOPE YOU HAVE AS MUCH FUN AT KANOPOLIS STATE LAKE AS WE DO!
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