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Subsurface Studies in Northeastern Kansas

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Contents

Introduction

Purpose of the report

Earlier reports

Acknowledgments

Regional structure

Stratigraphy

General

Surface stratigraphy

Quaternary deposits

Permian

Pennsylvanian

Subsurface stratigraphy

Pennsylvanian system

Virgil series

Wabaunsee group

Shawnee group

Pedee-Douglas group

Bronson-Lansing group

Bourbon shale

Des Moines series

Marmaton group

Cherokee shale

Mississippian system

Kinderhook shale

Silurian and Devonian system

Siluro-Devonian formation

Ordovician system

Maquoketa shale

Galena-Platteville limestone

St. Peter sandstone

Cambro-Ordovician

"Siliceous lime"

Basal sand

Pre-Cambrian

Atchison County

Brown County

Doniphan County

Douglas County

Jackson County

Jefferson County

Johnson County

Leavenworth County

Shawnee County

Wabaunsee County

Wyandotte County

List of wells in northeastern Kansas drilled to "Mississippi lime" or deeper

Bibliography


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web Jan. 27, 2014; originally published May 1935.
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