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new version of Paleozoic chart, Osagian Stage


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Original Mississippian stratigraphy discussed in Goebel, E.D., 1968, Mississippian System, in, Zeller, D.E., (ed.); The stratigraphic succession in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin, no. 189, pp. 17-21 http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/06_miss.html

Change of System name to Carboniferous and movement of Mississippian to Subsystem based on
Sawin, R.S., Franseen, E.K., Watney, W.L., West, R.R., and Ludvigson, G.A., 2009, New Stratigraphic Rank for the Carboniferous, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian in Kansas; in, Current Research in Earth Sciences: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 256, part 1.
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Current/2009/Sawin/index.html

Addition of Cowley Formation and Short Creek Oolite Mbr. based on
Franseen, E. K. , Sawin, R. S. , Watney, W. L. , West, R. R. , Layzell, A.L. , Ludvigson, G. A., 2018, Mississippian Stratigraphic Nomenclature Revisions in Kansas; in, Current Research in Earth Sciences: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 364.
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Current/2018/Franseen/index.html