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Detailed Sections, continued (61) NW sec. 5, T. 11 S, R. 9 E. Tarkio limestone (12.5 feet exposed) Feet Limestone, brown granular, thinner beds than in unit below, fusulinids smaller than in unit below 4 Limestone, shaly 2 Limestone, brown massive, giant fusulinids 6.5 Willard shale Shale, gray, blue when wet, somewhat blocky 25 Elmont limestone Limestone, dark-blue to gray, brittle, fossils and fossil fragments 2.1 Harveyville shale Shale, gray 5 (62) S line sec. 6, T. 11 S., R. 9 E. Tarkio limestone Feet Limestone, very brown 0.7 Willard shale Shale, gray and green 20 Elmont limestone Limestone, dark-blue, calcite crystals, fusulinids 1 Harveyville shale Shale, gray, to water of Deep creek 2 (63) NE, sec. 6, T. 11 S, R. 9 E. Dover limestone Feet Limestone, light in color, weathered into slabs, fusulinids 2 Table Creek shale Shale greenish-gray, more green in upper part, nodular, calcareous zones near top 16 Maple Hill limestone Limestone, dark-gray to yellow, granular, calcite crystals, mottled on fresh exposures, small fusulinids 1.4 ± Pierson Point shale Shale, partly covered 20 Tarkio limestone Limestone, brown, giant fusulinids, (top only exposed)   (64) C sec. 9, T. 11 S, R. 9 E. View stratigraphic column for this section. Permian System Feet Towle shale Indian Cave sandstone member Sandstone, gray fine micaceous, covered in road but exposed in weathered condition in cultivated field south of road 12 Carboniferous System, Pennsylvanian Subsystem French Creek shale Shale 10 to 15 Jim Creek limestone (4.65 feet) Limestone, blue to brown, nodular, "Osagia" and cryptozoa 0.55 Shale, yellow 2.5 Limestone or mudstone, soft yellow limonitic 0.1 Limestone, crystalline 0.2 Covered 1 Limestone, blue to gray, hard crystalline, pelecypods 0.3 Dry-Friedrich shale Covered slope 64 Dover limestone Limestone, covered   (65) SE sec. 15, T. 12 S., R. 5 E. (Measured by M. K. Elias) View stratigraphic column for this section. Doyle shale (31.1 feet exposed) Feet Towanda limestone member (9.1 feet exposed) Limestone, solid, coquina-like to fine conglomerate, cross-bedded 2.5 Limestone, somewhat porous, small Murchisonia 3.8 Shale, calcareous 0.8 Limestone 2 Holmesville shale member (22 feet) Mudstone, geodiferous in lower half 8 Shale, calcareous 1 Shale, small geodes 0.5 Shale, calcareous, to mudstone 1.5 Limestone, porous, geodes 0.5 Shale, calcareous 0.5 Limestone, in two beds, small geodes 3 Shale, calcareous, Pleurophorus and Aviculopecten, and rod-like impressions 2.5 Shale, calcareous 4.5 Barneston limestone Fort Riley limestone member (9.0 feet exposed) Limestone, massive, Derbyia, Meekella, Aviculopecten, and Straparollus 1.8 Limestone, shaly 0.5 Limestone, massive 6.7 (66) C sec. 7, T. 12 S, R. 6 E. View stratigraphic column for this section. Doyle shale Feet Towanda limestone member Holmesville shale member Barneston limestone Covered interval, Towanda limestone at top; upper part of Fort Riley limestone member of Barneston limestone at base 65 Barneston limestone (55 feet exposed) Fort Riley limestone member (18 feet exposed) Limestone, thin beds 10 Limestone, "rim rock," massive near top, thinner beds below 8 Oketo shale member(?) Shale, some limestone 5.5 Florence limestone member (31.5 feet) Limestone, small amount of flint 2 Shale 1.5 Limestone, flinty 5 Shale 1.5 Limestone, flinty 3 Shale, calcareous 1.5 Limestone, very flinty, limestone and flint in beds, limestone, granular, weathers into pitted blocks; limestone in beds about 0.7 foot thick; flint in bands and nodules 0.1 to 0.5 feet, few fossils 17 Matfield shale (48.6 feet exposed) Blue Springs shale member (44.6 feet) Shale, calcareous 1.4 Limestone, impure silty gray 0.5 Shale, gray, chocolate-color, and green, gray near base,fossliferous and calcareous near top 42.7 Kinney limestone member (4 feet) Limestone, gray dense, fossils as fragments 0.9 Shale, yellow to gray 1.6 Shale, calcareous 1.5 Wymore shale member Wreford limestone Speiser shale Covered slope, part of Blue Rapids shale and Crouse limestone exposed at base   (67) Sec. 9, T. 12 S, R. 6 E. View stratigraphic column for this section. Barneston limestone (70.4 feet exposed) Feet Fort Riley limestone member (22.2 feet exposed) Limestone, light in color, thin beds 15 Limestone, massive "rim rock" 4 Shale, yellow 1.6 Limestone, yellow 0.6 Limestone, yellow impure 1 Oketo shale member Shale, bluish-gray to yellow, calcareous 4 Florence limestone member (44.2 feet) Limestone, yellow soft, small amount of flint 2.3 Shale, calcareous 1 Limestone, small amount of flint 3 Limestone, much flint 1.4 Shale, fossiliferous 3 Limestone, thin beds near base, flint near base 5 Shale, yellowish-gray 0.8 Limestone, somewhat thin-bedded, flinty 5 Limestone, shaly 1 Limestone, light in color, weathers brown, steel-gray flint 19 Limestone, impure flinty fossiliferous 1.6 Limestone, shaly fossiliferous 1.1 Matfield shale (75 feet) Blue Springs shale member (26.6 feet) Shale, yellow and gray, calcareous concretions 3 Shale, varicolored, mostly red and green 23.6 Kinney limestone member (31.4 feet) Limestone, fossiliferous 0.5 Shale 10.8 Limestone, yellow flaky, pelecypods 0.6 Shale, yellow to gray, fossiliferous 7.5 Shale, gray blocky 1.5 Shale, gray 5.5 Limestone, covered 5 Wymore shale member (17 feet) Shale, purple near top, red and green 12 Covered interval 5 Wreford limestone (24.3 feet exposed) Schroyer limestone member (18.3 feet) Limestone, gray crystalline 0.8 Limestone, flinty, large bryozoa 11 Shale, light-gray, maximum thickness 2 Limestone, yellow to brown, steel-gray flint, shaly near base, productids 4.5 Havensville shale member Shale, gray, soft and powdery near top, more calcareous near base 6 (68) NE sec. 3, T. 12 S., R. 7 E. 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Barneston limestone Feet Florence limestone member Limestone, flinty   Matfield shale (61.7 feet) Blue Springs shale member (20 feet) Shale, yellow, calcareous zones 10 Shale, mostly red, calcareous zones 10 Kinney limestone member (22 feet) Limestone, chalky, stained red from shale above 2.5 Shale, gray, some red and green, not well exposed 12 Limestone, gray, pelecypods 0.5 Shale, gray 4 Limestone, gray, massive in lower part 3 Wymore shale member (19.7 feet) Shale, gray, calcareous zones 6 Shale, calcareous 0.1 Shale, mostly gray, small amount of red 6.5 Limestone, gray 0.6 Shale, gray, green, and red 6 Limestone, red, chalky 0.5 Wreford limestone (35.1 feet) Schroyer limestone member (10.9 feet) Limestone, abundant flint 5 Shale, light-yellow powdery 1.5 Limestone, yellow, thin beds 0.4 Shale, green nodular 2 Limestone, partly silicified 0.2 Shale, gray calcareous 0.6 Limestone, gray, weathers brown 1.2 Havensville shale member (16 feet) Shale, gray to yellow, thin limestone in middle part 6 Covered interval 10 Threemile limestone member (82 feet) Limestone, abundant flint 1 Limestone, light in color, soft, tough, no flint, weathered to pitted surfaces, makes bold outcrop line 2 Limestone, flinty 0.8 Limestone, three bands of flint 1.7 Limestone, yellow impure 0.4 Shale, gray, abundant fossils 0.9 Limestone, light-gray, steel-gray flint 1.4 Speiser shale (15.6 feet) Shale 0.1 Limestone 0.2 Shale, yellow and gray, many fossils, more abundant in upper part 2.5 Limestone, very persistent over entire area 0.5 Shale, gray, bands of red and green 10.6 Limestone, in thin beds, interbedded with shale 0.7 Shale, green and yellow 1 Funston limestone (15.4 feet) Limestone, yellow dense 0.6 Shale, few limy zones or limestone beds 14 Limestone, nonresistant to Weathering 0.8 Blue Rapids Shale Shale, not well exposed, green near top, weathers into gentle slope 11 Crouse limestone Limestone, not well exposed, brown and platy near top, more massive in lower part 12 Easly Creek shale Shale, gray, not well exposed 5 Bader limestone (15.3 feet) Middleburg limestone member Limestone, gray, some iron rust, massive in lower part, fragments of fossils 1 Hooser shale member (9.8 feet) Shale, yellow, bands of green 4 Limestone, impure shaly 0.3 Shale, yellow and gray, bands of red 5.5 Eiss limestone member Limestone, light-gray, in thin beds, weathers lighter in color, upper part slightly limonitic and irregular in mode of weathering 4.5 Stearns shale Shale, yellow and gray 5 (69) C S line sec. 18, T. 12 S., R. 7 E. Wreford limestone Feet Threemile limestone member Limestone, light in color, massive, small amount of flint 3 Limestone, abundant flint 3.5 Limestone, shaly fossiliferous 0.5 Shale, gray 0.2 Limestone, few thin beds ? Speiser shale Funston limestone Blue Rapids shale Crouse limestone Easly Creek shale Bader limestone Covered slope, Crouse limestone and Eiss limestone member of Bader limestone partly exposed, latter at base 50 (70) C S line sec. 34, T. 12 S., R. 7 E. View stratigraphic column for this section. Wreford limestone Feet Threemile limestone member (8 feet exposed) Limestone, flinty 5 Limestone, small amount of flint 3 Speiser shale (15 feet exposed) Shale, gray fossiliferous 2 Limestone, gray crystalline 1 Shale, red and green 12 (71) E line sec. 33, T. 13 S., R. 7 E. Doyle shale (27.9 feet exposed) Feet Towanda limestone member Limestone, yellow impure, contains some red, green, and yellow shale 5.4 Holmesville shale member Covered interval, (measurement may be too small because of slumping of Towanda limestone) 22.5 Barneston limestone Fort Riley limestone member (12.5 feet exposed) Limestone, somewhat silicified 2 Covered interval 4.5 Limestone, yellow, in thin beds 1 Shale, yellow chalky 5 Limestone, light-yellow, weathers white, massive "rim rock" ? Prev Page--Sections 46-60 || Next Page--Stratigraphc Sections

	Kansas Geological Survey, Geology of Riley and Geary Counties Comments to webadmin@kgs.ku.edu Web version Nov. 2000. Original publication date Dec. 1941. URL=http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Riley/sect05.html