XIV International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian	Mound City Shale. Little California Creek, 8 miles south of Coffeyville, KS.
Pre-Meeting Field Trip # 8. Middle and Upper Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) Cyclothem Succession in Midcontinent Basin, U.S.A.

Philip H. Heckel, University of Iowa

Email: philip-heckel@uiowa.edu

Darwin R. Boardman, Oklahoma State University

Email: amm0001@okway.okstate.edu

Web site: http://www.okstate.edu/geology/boardman.html

W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey

Email: lwatney@kgs.ku.edu

James E. Barrick, Texas Tech University

Email: ghjeb@pop.ttu.edu

Web site: http://www.ttu.edu/~geosc/page13.html

John P. Pope, University of Iowa

Email: jpope@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

HONORARY LEADER:

Allan P. Bennison (Independent Consultant, Tulsa, Oklahoma)

When and Where: Thursday, August 12 through Sunday, August 15, 1999. This four-day trip will begin at 7 a.m. on August 12 at the Comfort Inn, located at 1200 Highway 92 (adjacent to Interstate 29), Platte City, Missouri (see map). Motel is 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the Kansas City International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. Trip will end at the Comfort Inn on Sunday evening. For those flying to Kansas City, travel arrangements should include arrival at the Comfort Inn by the evening of the August 11. Rooms are reserved for August 11 for field trip attendees. Extra luggage can be stored at the Comfort Inn to be retrieved when we return to the motel on Sunday night. Those flying on to Calgary for the Congress should have reservations for August 16. Transportation: 47 passenger, air-conditioned bus with lavatory (rest room). Itinerary: Western Missouri, eastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma. General Description of the field trip is available at http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/iccp/trip8.htm. List of stops available soon. Accommodations: Motel rooms have been reserved at Best Western in Ft. Scott Kansas for Thursday evening, August, 12, and at Super 8 Motel in Coffeyville, Kansas for the evenings of August 13 and 14. Reservations have been made for two people per room. Room assignments will be made as best that we can prior to the trip to facilitate distribution of keys. If you are traveling with someone, i.e., have a preference for room assignments, please inform Melanie Cromwell (address below) prior to your arrival. Cost: $380 US. The fee includes: all meals from breakfast on Thursday, August 12 through Sunday lunch on August 15, travel by air-conditioned bus or vans, and overnight lodging (double occupancy) from Wednesday through Sunday nights at air-conditioned motels with swimming pools. Facilities will be available at the airport hotel for storage of luggage not needed on the field trip. Assistance will be provided for rock samples to ship your rock samples home (at cost to participants) at the end of the trip.

Little California Creek, 8 miles south of Coffeyville, Kansas. Succession Includes: shale, Hushpuckney Shale (black fissile), gray shale, and Bethany Falls Limestone

Registration procedure: Please register directly with Melanie Cromwell. A registration form is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Send a bank-certified check or money order made out to KU Energy Research Center for $380 US to:

Melanie Cromwell

K.U. Energy Research Center

108 Parker Hall,1930 Constant Avenue

Campus West, K.U., Lawrence, Kansas 66047

USA

Phone: 785-864-4445 or 785-864-3965

Fax: 785-864-5053

E-mail: melanie_cromwell@kgs.ku.edu

Website: http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Conferences/Carbon/index.html

Please be sure to include your e-mail address on your registration form.
Field trip registrations must be received by July 15, 1999. Note that registration for other activities of the Congress can be done through the Congress web site.

Environmental conditions: Come prepared for hot weather. Daytime temperatures often reach 30° to 40° C in the central USA during August, and the relative humidity is generally high.

Field trip description: The Midcontinent Basin of North America contains perhaps the most complete, well-exposed and structurally undisturbed succession of upper Middle through Upper Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian, Missourian and Virgilian) strata in the world (approximately the upper half of the Upper Carboniferous). Between 25 and 30 localities in eastern Kansas and nearby parts of Missouri and Oklahoma will be visited, including two showing potential boundary stratotypes (Desmoinesian/Missourian stages and Missourian/Virgilian stages) and one showing the correlated base of the Permian. Most of the better developed cyclothems (glacial-eustatic stratigraphic sequences) of the Desmoinesian to Virgilian will be seen, thereby offering a better understanding of the basic cyclic pattern and the variations in rock types and depositional environments represented in cyclothems of the region. The trip will also provide an opportunity for systematic collection of fossils, particularly conodonts and fusulinids, groups used for global correlation. This trip is an official Pander Society field trip for the congress.

Little California Creek, 8 miles south of Coffeyville, Kansas. Desmoinesian-Missourian Boundry	Sedan City, Lane spillway, Chautaqua Co., Kansas. Bottom to top:Leavenworth Limestone, Heebner Shale, Plattsmouth Limestone