Southeast Kansas Coal Geology Field Trips

Kansas Geological Survey
Open-file Report 2002-27

View looking northeast in large pit. Mine subsidence area in the SW Sec. 10, T35S, R24E, Cherokee Co. KS. Riverton coal is exposed just above the Mississippian. Large Pit. Coal appears to thicken into lows on Mississippian karst surface.


View looking northeast in large pit. Mine subsidence area in the SW Sec. 10, T35S, R24E, Cherokee Co. KS. Riverton coal is exposed above the Mississippian. Coal appears to thicken into lows on Mississippian karst surface. From June Field Trip.


View looking northeast in large pit. Mine subsidence area in the SW Sec. 10, T35S, R24E, Cherokee Co. KS. Riverton coal is exposed above the Mississippian. Coal appears to thicken into lows on Mississippian karst surface. From June Field Trip.


Mine subsidence area in the SW Sec. 10, T35S, R24E, Cherokee Co. KS. Riverton coal is exposed just above the Mississippian. Large Pit. Close-up showing Riverton Coal exposed on south edge of large pit. From June Field Trip.

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