They form a two-to-three-mile-wide break of rough terrain between the plains of northwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado and the south sides of the Arikaree and Republican river basins.
The soil here called Loess was blown to the area around 10,000 years ago.
This kind of soil is also found in northeast Kansas, southwest Nebraska, and Iowa.
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