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Register of Detailed Sections, Wyandotte County

1. Section at and above a quarry 1/2 mile west of Morris, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Wyandotte limestone:
	Argentine-Frisbie members:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, light in color, cherty	30.0
Lane shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	37.0
Iola limestone:
		Limestone, massive, blocky, dark-gray, partly covered	8+
Chanute shale:
		Shale covered	7.0
Drum limestone:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, massive at top	11.0
Quivira shale:
		Shale, carbonaceous	7.0
Westerville limestone:
		Shale and interbedded limestone	5.0
		Shale, buff, limy	5.0
		Limestone and interbedded shale, buff	4.0
		Limestone, oolitic, buff	2.0
(Total Westerville limestone, 16.0 feet)
Wea shale:
		Shale, buff, argillaceous, thin-bedded near top	6.0
Block limestone:
		Limestone, buff, soft	0.7
Fontana shale:
		Shale, buff, limy, Chonetina flemingi var. plebeia zone near top, a thin coal seam near base	6.0
(Total Cherryvale shale, 35.7 feet)
Dennis limestone:
	Winterset limestone member:
		Limestone, black nodular chert near top, massive at top, thin-bedded and argillaceous below, drab to gray	12.0
		Shale, dark, platy	2.5
		Limestone, massive, gray to buff, upper part crossbedded with some chert	5.5
		Shale	7.6
		Limestone, gray, massive	7.3
	Stark shale member:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	1.0
		Shale, black, carbonaceous, platy	1.0
(Total Dennis limestone, 36.9 feet)
Galesburg shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	4.0
Swope limestone:
	Bethany Falls limestone member

2. Section at a quarry near Twenty-eighth street and Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri			Thickness, in feet
Dennis limestone:
	Winterset limestone member:
	Stark shale member:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	3.0
		Shale, black, platy	1.0
(Total Stark shale member, 4.0 feet)
Galesburg shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	6.0
Swope limestone:
	Bethany Falls limestone member

3. Section in a road cut at the SW, corner of sec. 12, T. 11 S., R. 24 E.			Thickness, in feet
Argentine limestone:
Lane shale:
		Shale, argillaceous, covered	30.0
Iola limestone:
	Raytown limestone member:
		Limestone, gray, massive, even-bedded	6.0
	Muncie creek shale member:
		Shale, black, platy, gray near top and bottom	3.0
	Paola limestone:
		Limestone, hard, blue, dense, calcite "marklets"	1.0
(Total Iola Limestone: 10.0 feet)
Chanute shale:
		Shale, dark-gray, argillaceous, red zone near base, thin coal locally at top	12.0
Drum limestone:
		Limestone, soft, gray, thin-bedded	10.0
Quivira shale:
		Shale, calcareous, greenish-gray, dark at middle	3.0
Westerville limestone:
		Chert, pink and brown, lenticular seams	3.0
		Oolite, fossiliferous, irregular	0.3
		Limestone, gray to white, massive	12.0
Wea shale:
		Shale, argillaceous buff	25.0
Block limestone:
		Limestone, buff, soft	1.0
		Shale, buff	3.0
		Limestone, gray	1.0
		Shale, gray	1.0
		Limestone, gray, soft	1.0
(Total Block limestone member, 7.0 feet)
Fontana shale:
		Shale, covered	2.0

4. Section about 1/2 mile west of Turner, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Westerville limestone:
		Limestone, oolitic, crossbedded, very fossiliferous	18.0

5. Section near railway station, Nearman, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Quivira shale:
		Shale
Westerville limestone:
		Limestone, thin and wavy-bedded, buff, with brown nodular chert at top	11.0
Wea shale:

6. Section along interurban railway, near Matoon, west of City Park, Kansas City, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Drum limestone:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, gray, weathers light in color with Campophyllum torquium, Marginifera splendens, and Rhomboporoids at top	8.0
Quivira shale:
		Shale, greenish-gray, argillaceous	3.5
Westerville limestone:
		Chert and limestone, pink to brown, massive with banded and irregular structure	5.0
		Limestone, thin-bedded, buff, with little chert	2.5
		Shale, argillaceous, gray	0.3
		Oolite, crossbedded, massive, drab and buff, fossiliferous, lower part more evenly bedded	8.3
(Total Westerville limestone member, 16.1 feet)
Wea shale:

7. Section along bluff south of Twenty-sixth Street and Metropolitan Avenue, Argentine, Kansas City, Kansas, type exposure of Argentine limestone			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, brown and gray, massive	15.0
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, arenaceous covered	33.0
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, dark-gray, composed of fossil fragments, and with Osagia	3.5
		Shale, argillaceous covered	10.0
		Limestone, oolitic, crossbedded, fossiliferous massive, drab to buff	14.5
(Total Farley limestone member, 28.0 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, bluish-gray, argillaceous	7.5
	Argentine-Frisbie limestone members:
		Limestone, whitish-gray, thin-bedded, cherty in upper part, shaly in middle part, and massive below	30.0
Lane shale:
		Shale, buff to gray	38.5
Iola limestone:
		Limestone, gray, hard, covered	6.5
Chanute shale:
		Covered	6.0
Drum limestone and Quivira shale member:
		Covered	11.5
Westerville limestone:
		Limestone, crossbedded, granular	16.0
Wea shale:
		Shale	6.0
Block limestone and Fontana shale:
		Covered	4.0
Dennis limestone and Galesburg shale:
	Winterset limestone member:
		Limestone with black chert	10.0
	Lower part of Winterset limestone member and Galesburg shale:
		Covered	39.0
Swope limestone:
	Bethany Falls limestone member
		Limestone, poorly exposed	3 0

8. Section near the dam at Forest Lake, west of Edwardsville, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, covered
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, hard, dense, weathers white to buff, massive, with brecciated appearance on weathered surface	12.0
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	2.0
		Limestone, gray to buff, granular, limonitic, slightly crossbedded, friable	6.3
		Shale, greenish-gray, arenaceous	0.2
		Limestone and shale in thin beds	5.6
		Shale, gray, arenaceous	0.3
		Limestone, gray to drab, oolitic	4.4
(Total Farley limestone member, 30.8 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, arenaceous, buff and fossiliferous	6.5
	Argentine-Frisbie limestone members:
		Limestone, whitish-gray, irregular beds	25.0
Lane shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	37.0
Iola limestone:
		Limestone, blocky, massive, light gray, partly covered	8+
Chanute shale:
		Shale, covered	7.0
Drum limestone:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, gray, massive at top	11.0
Quivira shale:
		Shale	7.0
Westerville limestone:
		Limestone, thin- and crossbedded, argillaceous, granular, gray and buff	4.0

9. Section at Boynes Quarry, NW corner sec. 30, T. 10 S., R. 25 E., on Missouri River bluff, northeast of Welborn, Kansas, type exposure of Quindaro shale.			Thickness, in feet
Kansan drift:
		Loess, arenaceous, buff to brown	50+
		Drift, gravel, erratics, sand, etc.	5+
Wyandotte limestone:
	Argentine limestone member:
		Limestone, hard, dark, crossbedded, granular, with abundance of pelecypods, surface planed and scratched by glaciation	1.5
		Limestone, dark-gray, hard, little chert, thin- and wavy-bedded	19
	Quindaro shale member:
		Shale, buff and dark gray	3.0
	Frisbie limestone member:
		Limestone, dense, bluish-gray	2.0
Lane shale:

10. Section at quarry near Rainbow Avenue and Southwest Boulevard, Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Wyandotte limestone:
	Argentine-Frisbie limestone members:
		Limestone, thin-bedded and wavy-bedded, gray, hard, cherty	38.0

11. Section in a road cut, center of sec. 32, T. 11 S., R. 25 E.			Thickness, in feet
Wyandotte limestone:
	Argentine limestone member:
		Limestone, massive and pink at top, cherty, lower half buff, shaly, argillaceous	33.5

12. Section in quarry along Union Pacific railway, center of sec. 32, T. 12 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone (highest in quarry), cherty and thin-bedded at top, surface of which shows excellent glacial planation and scratches, massive and buff in lower part	21.5
		Shale, dark, argillaceous	1.0
		Limestone, very massive, gray to buff, hard, with Enteletes hemiplicatus var., base? of Plattsburg	5.0
(Total Plattsburg limestone, 27.5 feet)
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, greenish-gray to buff with Cordaites	0.5
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, gray to buff	18.0
		Shale, gray, arenaceous	1.5
		Limestone, massive, gray, argillaceous	6.7
(Total Farley limestone member, 26.2 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, gray to buff, argillaceous	1.0
	Argentine limestone member:
		Limestone, white to pink blue zone at top, massive at top, shaly below	32.5

13. Section at cement plant quarry, Bonner Springs, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Kansan:
		Drift
Vilas shale:
		Sandstone, buff	3.0
		Shale	7.0
Plattsburg limestone:
	Spring Hill limestone member:
		Limestone, arenaceous, buff, with pelecypods and trilobites	1.5
		Limestone, massive	5.0
		Limestone, gray to buff, crystalline	8.0
	Hickory Creek shale member:
		Shale, black	0.3
		Shale, buff	0.3
	Merriam limestone member:
		Limestone	1.1
		Shale	0.2
		Limestone	1.3
(Total Plattsburg limestone, 17.7 feet)
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, green	0.3
		Marlite	2.7
		Shale, dark gray	6.0
		Shale, arenaceous	7.0
		Shale, less sandy	9.0
(Total Bonner Springs shale, 25.0 feet)
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, hard, dark-gray, cherty	11.0
		Shale, gray, fossiliferous	0.6
		Limestone, massive	0.6
		Limestone, arenaceous, locally crossbedded	7.0
		Shale and limestone, interbedded	13.5
(Total Farley limestone member, 32.7 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, greenish-gray, calcareous	1.0
	Argentine limestone member:
		Limestone, light in color	10+

14. Section on Island creek, center sec. 23, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, covered	13.0
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, covered	25.0
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, brecciated, pebbles of brown limestone in dark, granular matrix	5.0
		Limestone, dense, bluish-gray, massive	3.0
		Shale, buff, limy, partly composed of species of Myalina	6.0
		Limestone, massive, drab, oolitic, fossiliferous	30.0
(Total Farley limestone member, 44.0 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, argillaceous, buff, covered to creek	3+

15. Section at Camp Naish, Boy Scouts of America, 1 mile east of Bonner Springs, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Sandstone, micaceous, buff	15+
		Limestone, conglomerate, brown	1.0
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Little Kaw limestone member:
		Limestone, buff, micaceous, arenaceous, pelecypods	2.4
	Victory Junction shale member:
		Shale, arenaceous, covered	8.5
	Olathe limestone member:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, crystalline, hard, gray, weathers buff	15.0
	Eudora shale member:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous above, below; black and fissile near middle	5.0
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, gray to white, hard, even-bedded	5.5
Vilas shale:
		Shale, arenaceous	1.0
		Sandstone, "quartzitic," gray, rippled	1.8
		Shale, gray, arenaceous, blocky at base	13.8
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, gray to buff, massive beds, abundance of algal form, Osagia, at base	17+
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, gray, micaceous, arenaceous, with plant fossils	20.2
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, even-bedded, hard, gray	10.0
		Shale, argillaceous, gray, dark at top	1.2
		Limestone, yellow, granular at top, shaly near middle, gray at base	10.3
(Total Farley limestone member, 21.5 feet)
	Island Creek shale member:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	14.0
	Argentine limestone

16. Section at a quarry east of concrete road near the NE corner of sec. 10, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone in covered bench	14±
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, buff, arenaceous, covered	25.0
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, dense, dark	2-3
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	7.0
		Limestone, massive, crossbedded, drab to gray	15.0
(Total Farley limestone member, 25.0 feet)
	Island Creek shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous, mostly covered	40.0
Argentine limestone:
		Limestone, white, thin-bedded, only top exposed	5+

17. Section along concrete road 1/4 mile southeast of Wolcott, Kansas			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
	Bonner Springs shale and upper Farley limestone member:
		Covered slope
Wyandotte limestone:
	Lower Farley limestone:
		Limestone, massive except near the middle where it is shaly, oolitic, crossbedded, fossiliferous	16.0
	Island Creek shale:
		Shale, argillaceous, covered	43.0
Argentine limestone:
		Limestone, thin-bedded, light in color, dense, base covered	5+

18. Section along road cut of Pomeroy, near center of sec. 20, T. 10 S., R. 24 E.			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, marlite at base	15.0
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, gray and buff, argillaceous below, arenaceous, with fossil plants above	38.0
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, granular, gray, weathers into thin plates	3.5
		Shale, arenaceous, buff	12.0
		Limestone, thin-bedded, dark, oolitic	8.0
(Total Farley limestone member, 23.5 feet)
	Island Creek shale:
		Shale, argillaceous, greenish-gray to buff	11.0
Argentine limestone:
		Limestone, white, thin-bedded, only upper part exposed

19. Section 1/4 mile west of the SW corner of sec. 25, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, brown, marlite at base	15.0
Bonner Springs shale:
		Shale, arenaceous, buff	28.0
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, gray, dense, weathers into thin plates, with an abundance of Myalina subquadrata	5.5
		Shale, argillaceous, gray	5.0
		Limestone, oolitic, gray to drab, only upper part shown	4+

20. Section along concrete road near the NE corner of sec. 25, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Wyandotte limestone:
	Farley limestone member:
		Limestone, massive in upper part, thin-bedded, and argillaceous, below crossbedded and oolitic, buff to gray	20.0
	Island Creek shale:
		Shale, greenish-gray, argillaceous, few fossils	15.5
Argentine limestone:
		Limestone, light gray or white, dense, massive, hard

21.Section along concrete road at the SW corner of sec. 30, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Kansan:
		Drift cobbles, etc.
Stanton limestone:
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, hard, gray, dense, massive, evenly bedded	6.5
Vilas shale:
		Shale, buff to gray, arenaceous	24.0
Plattsburg limestone:
		Limestone, brown, even-bedded

22. Section 1/2 mile west of Victory Junction, on U. S. Highway 40			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Sandstone and arenaceous shale
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Victory Junction shale member:
		Sandstone, calcareous, micaceous, buff, with an abundance of molluscan remains	1.0
		Shale, arenaceous, buff, unfossiliferous	10.0
	Olathe limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, light gray, base covered	10+

23. Section in an old quarry 1/4 mile west of the SE corner of sec. 26, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Conglomerate, yellow limestone pebbles in a gray and buff arenaceous matrix	1.0
		Shale, arenaceous	1.0
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Little Kaw limestone member:
		Limestone, bluish-gray, micaceous	1.0
	Victory Junction shale member:
		Shale, arenaceous, buff	12.0
	Olathe limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, gray to buff, irregular-bedded	12.0
	Eudora shale member:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous above and below, black and fissile near the middle	5.0
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, dark, massive, even-bedded, blocky	5.0
(Total Stanton limestone, 35.0 feet)
Vilas shale:
		Shale covered to pavement	11+

24. Section 1/4 mile east of the SW corner of sec. 8, T. l0 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Conglomerate, limestone pebbles in gray, arenaceous, matrix, interbedded with gray, hard, calcareous sandstone, crossbedded	4.0
		Shale, covered	9.0
		Sandstone and interbedded laminae of coal, crossbedded, buff, with thin coal seam at base	2.0
		Conglomerate, limestone pebbles in arenaceous matrix, Iimy sandstone at top	1.5
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, bluish-gray, very brittle, very few fossils	3.0

25. Section at the south side of sec. 8, T. 10 S., R. 23E. (A continuation of section 24)			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Conglomerate, limestone pebbles in a brown or gray, sandy matrix, crossbedded	3.0
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, gray, brittle, massive, blocky	3.0
Vilas shale:
		Shale, gray, argillaceous	17.3
Plattsburg limestone:
	Spring Hill limestone and Hickory Creek shale members:
		Limestone, argillaceous, massive, with thin shale partings, with carbonaceous shale at base	15.0
	Merriam limestone member:
		Limestone, blocky, even-bedded with Osagia, Myalina, and Pinna	3.0

26. Section 1/4 mile west of the NW corner of sec. 36, T. 10 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Loess:
Stanton limestone:
	Olathe limestone member:
		Limestone, thin- and wavy-bedded, gray, crystalline	12.0
	Eudora shale member:
		Shale, upper part buff, lower part gray, black and fissile and carbonaceous in middle part	6.0
	Captain Creek limestone member:
		Limestone, even-bedded, brown

27. Section west of the road by creek, south edge of sec. 8, T. 11 S., R. 23 E.			Thickness, in feet
Stranger sandstone:
		Sandstone covered
		Conglomerate, yellow limestone pebbles in gray and brown matrix	2.0
Unconformity
Stanton limestone:
	Little Kaw limestone member:
		Limestone, massive, dark, brittle, fossiliferous	4.0
	Victory Junction shale member:
		Shale, arenaceous, upper part exposed	1+

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