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Contents
Purpose and scope of the investigation
Previous work
Acknowledgments
General Considerations of the Marmaton Rocks in Kansas
Sequence of Strata and Disconformities in the Older Pennsylvanian Section in Oklahoma and Kansas
Disconformity at the base of Pennsylvanian rocks
Pennsylvanian rocks older than the Desmoinesian
Desmoinesian series
Cherokee shale
Marmaton group
Disconformity between Desmoinesian and Missourian rocks
Stratigraphy of the Marmaton Group in Kansas
Fort Scott limestone
Blackjack Creek limestone member
Little Osage shale member
Higginsville limestone member
Labette shale
Pawnee limestone
Anna shale member
Myrick Station limestone member
Mine Creek shale member
Laberdie limestone member
Bandera shale
Altamont limestone
Tina limestone member
Lake Neosho shale member
Worland limestone member
Nowata shale
Lenapah limestone
Norfleet limestone member
Perry Farm shale member
Idenbro limestone member
Memorial shale
General review of present concepts of cyclic deposition
Evidence of cyclic sedimentation in Marmaton rocks
The Fort Scott megacyclothem
The Pawnee megacyclothem
The Altamont megacyclothem
The Lenapah megacyclothem
Stratigraphic sections in Linn County, Kansas
Detailed Stratigraphic Sections
Stratigraphic sections in Bourbon County, Kansas
Stratigraphic sections in Crawford County, Kansas
Stratigraphic sections in Neosho County, Kansas
Stratigraphic sections in Labette County, Kansas
Stratigraphic sections in Montgomery County, Kansas
Stratigraphic sections in Missouri
Stratigraphic sections in Oklahoma
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