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Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope of the report

Location and extent of the area

Previous investigations

Methods of investigation

Well-numbering system

Acknowledgments

Geography

Topography

Climate

Population

Transportation

Agriculture

Industry

Geomorphic Development

Tertiary time

Pre-Kansan time

Kansan time

Illinoian time

Wisconsinan and Recent time

Newman terrace

Flood plain

Minor upland cycles of erosion

Geology in Relation to Ground Water

Paleozoic rocks

General

Douglas group

Shawnee group

Wabaunsee group

Sacfox subgroup

Nemaha subgroup

Quaternary deposits

Pre-Kansan gravels

Atchison formation

Kansas till

Meade formation

Undifferentiated middle Pleistocene alluvium and colluvium

Sanborn formation

Wisconsinan and Recent alluvium

Recent sand dunes

Ground Water

Source, occurrence, and movement

Recharge

Yield of wells

Utilization

Domestic

Agricultural

Industrial

Public supplies

Potential development

Quality

Dissolved solids

Hardness

Iron

Chloride

Fluoride

Nitrate

Records of Typical Wells

Logs of Test Holes and Measured Stratigraphic Sections

References

Plates


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web April 10, 2012; originally published June 1, 1952.
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