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Table of Contents
Location and topography
History of the field
Drilling and operating practices
Spacing of wells
Depths to producing zones
Drilling practices
Disposal of gas and oiL
Study of the field
Examination of samples
Well names
Acknowledgments
Pennsylvanian rocks
Virgilian series
Missourian series
Desmoinesian series
Pennsylvanian datum beds
Top of Oread limestone
Base of Hertha limestone
Top of McLouth sand
Water-bearing zones in Pennsylvanian rocks
Log of Pennsylvanian well.,
Mississippian rocks
Cave deposits in Mississippian rocks
Mississippian or Devonian rocks
Devonian rocks
Ordovician rocks
McLouth sand
Top of Mississippian limestone
Porous dolomite zone of the Burlington and Keokuk
Other potential producing zones
Resume of structural history of northeastern Kansas
Relation of McLouth field to regional structure
Structure of the McLouth field
Increase of closure with depth
Relation of surface structure to production
Effect of regional dip on the expression of structure by contour lines
Alteration of contour lines in McLouth field by regional dip
Faulting in the McLouth field
Interpretation of structure from the thickness map of the McLouth sand
Lithology
Forest City well
Character of sandstone beds
Cementation
Well-sorted porous sandstone
Argillaceous sandstone
Siltstone
Massive clay
Shale
Clay ironstone
Coal
Intraformational breccia
Thickness
Lithologic zones
Zone A
Zone B
Zone C
Zone D
Zone E
Zone F
Zone G
Paleogeography and Environment of the Forest City Basin During Early Cherokee Time
Environment and origin of shale zones
Environment and origin of sandy zones
Oil and gas Distribution in the McLouth Field in Relation to Structure
Occurrence of gas in McLouth sand
Relation of gas and tar in McLouth sand
Relation of tar and water in McLouth sand
Period of gas and oil accumulation
Distribution of gas, tar, oil, and water in McLouth sand
Occurrence of oil and gas in Mississippian rocks
Oil and gas at the top of the Mississippian
Oil in the dolomite zone
Gas production
Pressure
McLouth pool
North McLouth pool
Ackerland pool
Estimates of ultimate gas production
Relation of pressure in the McLouth gas pools to overburden
Oil production
McLouth Mississippian oil pool
Bankers Life pool
Scattered wells
Character and Origin of Gas and Oil
Analyses of oil
Comparison of McLouth and Mississippian oils in McLouth field with oils from other areas (by N. W. Bass)
Comparison of oils from McLouth field with oils from Falls City field
Analyses of gas
Future Development of Oil in the McLouth Field
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