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Figure 21

Figure 21--Isopachus map from base of Fort Hays Limestone to top of Dakota; interval includes Carlile, Greenhorn, and Graneros Formations. Maximum thickness is in western Gove County. Contour interval 25 feet.

Greatest thickness of 425 contoured in Gove; outcrops in wide band from Hamiton east to Ford and Hodgeman; Northeast to Rush and Republic.


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geologic History of Kansas
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