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Figure 2--Generalized section through Meade basin and area immediately adjacent to east showing supposed course of circulating ground water and development of solution-subsidence features. Arrows indicate inferred directions of ground-water flow (after Frye and Schoff, 1942, p. 37). Insert map shows location of major faults in Meade County and the area principally affected by solution-subsidence features.

Map showing drainage and intermittent ponds in Colby quadrangle.


Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
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