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Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope of report

Location and extent of area

Previous investigations

Methods of investigation

Location and well-numbering system

Acknowledgments

Geography

Topography

Climate

Population

Transportation

Agriculture

Industry

Geomorphic Development

Pre-Kansan Cenozoic time

Kansan time

Illinoian time

Wisconsinan and Recent time

Newman Terrace

Intermediate surface complex

Modern flood plain

Terrace development in tributary valleys

Effects of 1951 flood

Geology in Relation to Ground Water

Paleozoic rocks

Kansas City Group

Zarah Subgroup

Lansing Group

Douglas Group

Quaternary deposits

Pre-Kansan gravel

Atchison Formation

Kansas Till

Meade Group

Sanborn Group

Undifferentiated Wisconsinan and Illinoian colluvium and terrace deposits

Wisconsinan and Recent alluvium

Ground Water

Source, occurrence, and movement

Recharge

Discharge

Utilization

Domestic and stock

Irrigation

Municipal Industrial

Quality

Dissolved solids

Hardness

Iron

Chloride

Fluoride

Nitrate

Conclusions

Records of Typical Wells

Logs of Wells, Test Holes, and Auger Holes

References

Plates


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web March 29, 2012; originally published April 15, 1958.
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