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- Out-of-print County Bulletins
- "GeologicRecord" newsletter
- From Sea to Prairie--A Primer of
Kansas Geology
- A general discussion of the changing Kansas landscape, geologic time,
rocks and minerals, and fossils of Kansas is undertaken. The state is broken
into 11 regions, and the book addresses the rock type, age, and landscape
of each region.
- Ancient Life Found in Kansas
Rocks--An Introduction to Common Kansas Fossils
- An introduction to common Kansas fossils, their formation and
classification, and the geologic history of Kansas. Definitions for
difficult terminology. Color illustrations.
- Petroleum: a primer for Kansas
- The story behind the techniques, philosophies, and struggles of finding oil
and gas in Kansas. It is written in non-technical language for those who have
interests in the petroleum industry in one way or another, but who have had
little or no training in the technical fields involved.
- 'To bring together, correlate, and preserve'--a history of the Kansas Geological Survey, 1864-1989
- by Rex C. Buchanan, foreword by Grace Muilenburg.
Bulletin 227, published in 1989.
- Symposium on cyclic sedimentation
- Edited by D.F. Merriam. The papers from this out-of-print publication have been
placed online. Bulletin 169, published in 1964.
- Report of the Geological Survey of Miami County, Kansas
- by G.C. Swallow and F. Hawn, published in 1865.
- Volume VI: Paleontology--Part II: Cretaceous Fishes
- Selachians and Pycnodonts, by Samuel W. Williston.
- Bulletin 249
- Ground-water Recharge and Water Budgets of the Kansas High Plains and Related Aquifers, by Marios Sophocleous.
- A Kansan's Guide to Science
- by Paulyn Cartwright, Roger L. Kaesler, Bruce S. Lieberman, Adrian L. Melott.
Educational Series 15, published in 2000.
- The Geology and Invertebrate Paleontology of the Comanchean and "Dakota" Formations of Kansas
- by W.H. Twenhofel.
Originally published in 1924 as Bulletin 9.
- New Permian Corals from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
- by Raymond C. Moore and Russell M. Jeffords.
Originally published in 1941 as Bulletin 38, Part 3.
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(June 2007)
- The Borchers Fauna, A New Pleistocene Interglacial Fauna from Meade County, Kansas
- by Claude W. Hibbard.
Originally published in 1941 as Bulletin 38, Part 7.
(June 2007)
- Pliocene and Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Meade Basin, Southwestern Kansas
- by John C. Frye and Claude W. Hibbard.
Originally published in 1941 as Bulletin 38, Part 13.
(June 2007)
- Lophophyllid corals from Lower Pennsylvanian rocks of Kansas and Oklahoma
- by Russell M. Jeffords.
Originally published in 1942 as Bulletin 41, Part 5.
- Stratigraphy of the Pre-Greenhorn Cretaceous Beds of Kansas
- by Norman Plummer and John F. Romary.
Originally published in 1942 as Bulletin 41, Part 9.
- The Stratigraphy and Structural Development of the Forest City Basin in Kansas
- by Wallace Lee.
Originally published in 1943 as Bulletin 51.
- Pennsylvanian Morrowan Rocks and Fusulinids of Kansas
- by M.L. Thompson.
Originally published in 1944 as Bulletin 52, Part 7.
(June 2007)
- The Correlation of Rocks of Simpson Age in North-central Kansas with the St. Peter Sandstone and Associated Rocks in Northwestern Missouri
- by Constance Leatherock.
Originally published in 1945 as Bulletin 60, Part 1.
(July 2007)
- Petrographic Comparison of Pliocene and Pleistocene Volcanic Ash from Western Kansas
- by Ada Swineford and John C. Frye.
Originally published in 1946 as Bulletin 64, Part 1.
(Aug. 2007)
- Silicified Rock in the Ogallala Formation
- by John C. Frye and Ada Swineford.
Originally published in 1946 as Bulletin 64, Part 2.
(Aug. 2007)
- Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the Belvidere Area, Kiowa County, Kansas
- by Bruce F. Latta.
Originally published in 1946 as Bulletin 64, Part 6.
(Aug. 2007)
- The Late Pleistocene Loesses of Central Kansas
- by John C. Frye and O.S. Fent.
Originally published in 1947 as Bulletin 70, Part 3.
(June 2007)
- Cemented sandstones of the Dakota and Kiowa formations in Kansas
- by Ada Swineford.
Originally published in 1947 as Bulletin 70, Part 4.
(June 2007)
- The Stratigraphy and Structural Development of the Salina Basin of Kansas
- by Wallace Lee, Constance Leatherock, and Theodore Botinelly.
Originally published in 1948 as Bulletin 74.
(Dec. 2007)
- Origin of Kansas Great Plains Depressions
- by John C. Frye.
Originally published in 1950 as Bulletin 86, Part 1.
- Origin and environment of the Tonganoxie Sandstone in northeastern Kansas
- by T.W. Lins.
Originally published in 1950 as Bulletin 86, Part 5.
- Geologic Structures in Kansas
- by John Mark Jewett.
Originally published in 1951 as Bulletin 90, Part 6.
- Studies of Pleistocene gravel lithologies in northeastern Kansas
- by Stanley N. Davis
Originally published in 1951 as Bulletin 90, Part 7.
(Jan. 2008)
- Kansas Volcanic Ash Resources
- by J. Sheldon Carey, John C. Frye, Norman Plummer, and Ada Swineford.
Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 96, Part 1.
- Experimental Production of Feldspar and Silica from Several River Sands in Kansas
- by Frank W. Bowdish and Russell T. Runnels.
Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 96, Part 6.
(Jan. 2008)
- The Red Eagle Formation in Kansas
- by Howard G. O'Connor and John Mark Jewett.
Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 96, Part 8.
- Orthography as a Factor in Stability of Stratigraphical Nomenclature
- by Raymond C. Moore.
Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 96, Part 9.
- Pleistocene Geology of Kansas
- by John C. Frye and A. Byron Leonard.
Originally published in 1952 as Bulletin 99.
- Petrographic Study of Southeastern Kansas Coals
- by William W. Hambleton.
Originally published in 1953 as Bulletin 102, Part 1.
- A Spiny Aptychus from the Cretaceous of Kansas
- by Alfred G. Fischer and Robert O. Fay.
Originally published in 1953 as Bulletin 102, Part 2.
(Aug. 2007)
- Thickness Maps as Criteria of Regional Structural Movement
- by Wallace Lee.
Originally published in 1954 as Bulletin 109, Part 5.
(Aug. 2007)
- Graded Slopes in Western Kansas
- by John C. Frye.
Originally published in 1954 as Bulletin 109, Part 6.
- Chemical, Petrographic, and Ceramic Properties of Four Clays from the Dakota Formation in Kansas
- by Norman Plummer, Ada Swineford, Russell T. Runnels, and John A. Schleicher.
Originally published in 1954 as Bulletin 109, Part 10.
(June 2007)
- Petrography of Upper Permian Rocks in South-central Kansas
- by Ada Swineford.
Originally published in 1955 as Bulletin 111.
- Fossil Jellyfishes from Kansas Pennsylvanian Rocks and Elsewhere
- by H. J. Harrington and R. C. Moore.
Originally published in 1955 as Bulletin 114, Part 5.
- Simpson Filled Sinkholes in Eastern Kansas
- by Daniel F. Merriam and William R. Atkinson.
Originally published in 1956 as Bulletin 119, Part 2.
- Petrology of the Pliocene Pisolitic Limestone in the Great Plains
- by Ada Swineford, A. Byron Leonard, and John C. Frye.
Originally published in 1958 as Bulletin 130, Part 2.
(June 2007)
- Environment of Deposition of the Grenola Limestone (Lower Permian) in Southern Kansas
- by N. Gary Lane.
Originally published in 1958 as Bulletin 130, Part 3.
(June 2007)
- Flowage in Rock Salt at Lyons, Kansas
- by Louis F. Dellwig.
Originally published in 1958 as Bulletin 130, Part 4.
(June 2007)
- Neogene (Plio-Pleistocene) Fresh-water Ostracodes from the Central High Plains
- by Edwin D. Gutentag and Richard H. Benson.
Originally published in 1962 as Bulletin 157, Part 4.
- The Geologic History of Kansas
- by Daniel F. Merriam.
Originally published in 1963 as Bulletin 164.
Not all of the figures and are online at this time.
- Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of the Red Eagle Cyclothem (Lower Permian) in Kansas
- by Alistair W. McCrone.
Originally published in 1963 as Bulletin 164.
- Precambrian-Paleozoic Contact in Two Wells in Northwestern Kansas
- by Robert W. Scott and Marcus N. McElroy.
Originally published in 1964 as Bulletin 170, Part 2.
(Jan. 2008)
- Paleoecology of the Council Grove Group (Lower Permian) in Kansas, Based Upon Microfossil Assemblages
- by N. Gary Lane.
Originally published in 1964 as Bulletin 170, Part 5.
(Jan. 2008)
- The Stratigraphic Succession in Kansas
- edited by D. E. Zeller.
Originally published in 1968 as Bulletin 189.
- Cyclic sedimentation of the Lansing-Kansas City groups in northwestern Kansas and southwestern Nebraska; a guide for petroleum exploration
- by W.L. Watney.
Originally published in 1980 as Bulletin 220.
- KGS Annual Report 2005