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Table of Contents
Foreward
Introduction
1541 to 1864
First Survey
1864 and 1865
Hiatus
Finally Persuaded
Starting Over
From Haworth to Moore
R. C. Moore
Post-World War II
1960s and 1970s
References
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Table of Contents
Foreward, by Grace Muilenburg
Introduction
1. A place 'wholly unfit': Geology in Kansas, 1541 to 1864
- European and early American exploration
- Geologic reconnaissance begins
- The Permian controversy
2. Science and 'The disciples of progress': creation of the first Kansas Geological Survey
- Early attempts
- Creation of the first survey
- First state geologist
3. The first incarnation: the geological surveys of 1864 and 1865
- Mudge and the first Survey
- Geology of Kansas
- The 1865 Survey
- The sanitary relations of Kansas
4. The hiatus: 1866-1889
- Cretaceous fossils
- The fossil hunters
- Fossil hunting on the plains
- A geologic map of Kansas
- Mineral production
5. Finally persuaded: the creation of the 1889 Geological Survey of Kansas
- Attempts and appeals
- Created again
6. Almost like starting over: the University Geological Survey, 1889-1907
- Haworth's first years
- The University Geological Survey
- Volume I
- Changes
7. From Haworth to Moore
- On crystalline rocks
- Twenhofel
- The arrival of R. C. Moore
- Regulation?
8. R. C. Moore and the Survey of the 1930s and the 1940s
- Cyclic sedimentation
- Invertebrate paleontology
- Professional standing
- Moore and the Survey
- The Wichita Well Sample Library
9. Post-World War II
- Publication
- John C. Frye
- From Moore and Frye to Foley
- Changing directions
10. The Survey of the 1960s and 1970s
References
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