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Contents
Scope of report
Field work
Acknowledgments
Culture
Physiography
Drainage
Water supply
General features
Unexposed rocks
Pre-Cambrian rocks
Cambrian and Ordovician rocks
Mississippian rocks
General consideration
Stapleton oil zone
Pennsylvanian rocks
Cherokee shale and Marmaton formation
Kansas City formation
Lansing formation
Douglas formation
Shawnee formation
Wabaunsee formation
Permian rocks
Council Grove formation
Chase formation
Exposed rocks
Introductory statement
Permian rocks
Chase formation
Florence flint member
Fort Riley limestone member
Doyle shale member
General consideration
Lower shale bed
Towanda limestone bed
Upper shale bed
Winfield limestone
Marion formation
General consideration
Enterprise (?) shale member
Herington (?) limestone member
Pearl (?) shale member
Quaternary deposits
Regional structure
Relationship of surface structure to oil and gas accumulation
Structure of Eldorado district
Structure of surface rocks
Eldorado anticline and Walnut syncline
Shumway dome
Boyer dome
Oil Hill dome
Chesney dome
Wilson dome
Robinson dome
Chelsea dome
Hammond syncline
Bishop syncline
Fowler syncline
Bancroft syncline
Hegberg syncline
Theta syncline
Dunkle syncline
Ramsey syncline
Lincoln syncline
Structure of underground rocks
General statement
Shallow oil sands
General consideration
550-foot sand
Stray sand
660-foot sand
General statement
Areal distribution
Thickness
Structure
Production
Gas "sands"
Distribution of gas
Structure
Production
Total field production
Initial open-flow capacities
Decline in rock pressure and open-flow volume
Life of gas production
Deep oil sands
Boyer "sand"
Stokes "sand"
Stapleton oil zone
Resume of stratigraphic significance
Structure
Shumway dome
Bishop syncline
Fowler syncline
Boyer dome
Koogler nose
Bancroft syncline
Oil Hill dome
Hegberg syncline
Chesney dome
Theta syncline
Sec. 15, T. 25 S., R. 5 E
Wilson dome
Robinson dome
Location and extent
Stratigraphy
Structure
Surface rocks
Oil pay
Chelsea Dome: Promising oil territory inadequately tested
Introductory statement
Origin of the en echelon faults
Origin of anticlinal folds
Origin of the buried "granite ridge" of Kansas
Summary of conclusions for origin of Midcontinent types of structure
Original Source of Oil and Gas
Heating value
Helium content
General considerations
Eldorado waters
General statement
Outlining of desirable acreage
Leasing
Spacing and drilling of wells
Oil producing
Emulsion treatment
Refineries and pipe lines
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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
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