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Sequiota Spring feeds into a small lake that drains into Galloway Creek below. A smaller spring is sometimes active a hundred feet or so beyond the lake.

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Galloway Creek would run through the park if it had any water. Galloway Creek is "losing stream", the water that makes it to the streambed soaks into the subsurface readily, unless there is a major thunderstorm or the ground is saturated with wat
Chert gravel in the creek mostly was deposited during major storms or floods. Here, you can see the creek is channelized so that it acts as a storm sewer. Just a few inches below the gravel is the limestone bedrock that underlies much of the Springfield Pl
Sequiota Park was a Missouri State Park from 1920-1959, when it was turned over to the Springfield-Greene County Park System.
The limestone exposed in Sequiota Park is Mississippian in age. It is referred to as the Burlington-Keokuk formations (undivided). It is rich with crinoid and brachipod fossils.
A store was operated in this cave by Major Galloway after the Civil War. Bullard et al. refer to it as the "Walkway-all-the-way" Cave. To the left is "Crawlway-all-the-way" Cave, approximately 85 feet deep, and to the right is the cave
The main cave extends for nearly half a mile underground. The spring flows approximately 5-11 million gallons of water per day, and is extremely variable in its output. Much of the water comes from the Galloway-Southern Hills area of Springfield.
Today, efforts to bring more housing tracts onto the city sewer system have made the spring cleaner than it has been in many years. Continued monitoring of water quality and careful stewardship of our karst landscape will help to preserve a clean and beaut
Inside Walkway-all-the-way Cave, one can see the differential way that water has dissolved the limestone at various heights.
After caves form, they tend to slowly be occluded by calcite or aragonite (CaCO3) precipitates such as the the features shown here; these are referred to as speleothems (not formations). Flowstone and microgours (tiny rimstone dams) are common along this p
Sequiota Spring feeds into a small lake that drains into Galloway Creek below. A smaller spring is sometimes active a hundred feet or so beyond the lake.
Galloway's main industry is the production of "sweet lime" for agricultural uses (Mississippi Lime Co.) and aggregate (Conco Companies). A large, partly underground, quarry is active beyond the large building superstructure above.
Sequiota Park in southeastern
Sequiota was a village centered around this building directly across from Sequiota Park. The village of Galloway was a little to the south. Today, there is an effort to turn Sequiota and Galloway into "art" communities. This building now houses a
The railroad that runs through Galloway delivers coal to City Utilities Lake Springfield power plant.
 
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