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Contents
Location of the area
Surface features
Field and office work
Acknowledgments
Previous reports
Pre-Cambrian rocks
Cambrian and Ordovician systems
Mississippian system
Pennsylvanian system
Des Moines series
Cherokee shale
Age of the shoestring sands
Marmaton group
Missouri series
Bourbon formation
Bronson group
Kansas City group
Lansing group
Pedee group
Virgil series
Douglas group
Shawnee group
Wabaunsee group
Permian system
Big Blue series
Admire group
Council Grove group
Foraker limestone
Johnson shale
Red Eagle limestone
Roca shale
Grenola limestone
Burr limestone
Salem Point shale
Neva limestone
Eskridge shale
Beattie limestone
Cottonwood limestone
Florena shale
Morrill limestone
Stearns shale
Bader limestone and Easly Creek shale
Bigelow limestone and Speiser shale
Chase group
Relation between the structure of the surface rocks and the shoestring sand bodies
The Browning oil field
The Thrall oil field
The Fankhouser oil field
Structure of surface rocks in the Greenwood-Butler county region
History of the development of the shoestring oil fields and ultimate yields of some fields
Distribution of the known shoestring sand bodies
The Sallyards trend
The Teeter trend
The Quincy and Lamont trends
The Haverhill trend
Other shoestring sand lenses
The en echelon arrangement of the shoestring oil fields and sand bodies
Stratigraphic cross sections between the shoestring sand trends
Shapes of the individual sand lenses
The sand body of the Burkett oil field
The sand body of the Madison oil field
The sand body of the DeMalorie-Souder oil field
The sand body of the Browning oil field
The sand body of the Fankhouser oil field
Sand bodies of other oil fields
Physical character of the sand
Composition
Grain size
Shapes of sand grains
Different methods of forming sand bodies
Filled stream channels or offshore bars
Marine or nonmarine sediments
Composition, character, and size of the sand grains
Shapes in cross section
The distribution of the sand lenses
A land area in Lyon county and adjacent region
The Teeter-Quincy stage
Shift of the embayment
The Sallyards-Lamont stage
Explanation of certain features of the sand bodies
Source of the shoestring sand sediments
Preservation of the offshore bars
Origin and accumulation of oil in the shoestring sands
Possibility of discovering additional shoestring sand oil fields
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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
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