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Contents
General statement
Acknowledgments
Location and culture
Topography and drainage
History of oil and gas development
Rocks exposed
Recent series
Chert gravel
Size analyses
Douglas formation
Oread limestone member
Lawrence shale member
Iatan limestone member
Weston shale member
Lansing formation
Stanton limestone member
Vilas shale member
Plattsburg limestone member
Lane shale member
Kansas City formation
Iola limestone member
Chanute shale member
Drum limestone member
Cherryvale shale member
Winterset limestone member
Pennsylvanian system
Kansas City formation
Marmaton formation
Cherokee shale
Mississippian system
Mississippian (?) system
Ordovician and Cambrian systems
Pre-Cambrian rocks
Regional structure
Local structure
Origin of the local structure
Direct lateral compression
Uneven compaction
Folding influenced by sand bodies
Uneven deposition
Folding caused by readjustments in the deep, competent beds
General conditions
Conditions in Anderson County
300-foot sand
600-foot sand
800-foot sand
900-foot sand
Stray sand
Burgess sand
Top of the "Mississippi lime"
"First break"
"Siliceous lime"
Suggested origin of the sand bodies
Bars
Shallow-water or beach deposits
Channel fillings
Statistics of Anderson County production
Location
Development
Surface structure
Subsurface structure
Sands
Relation of accumulation to structure
Production
Location
Development
Structure
Relation of accumulation to structure
Sand
The white shale
Production and decline
Air recovery
Location
Development
Structure
Contents
Sands
Relation of production to structure
Production and decline
Location
Development
Structure
Sands
Production
Location
Development
Structure
Sand
Relation of accumulation to structure
Production and decline
Location
Development
Surface structure
Subsurface structure
Relation of production to structure
Sand
Production and decline
Location
Development
Structure
Sand
Relation of accumulation to structure
Heavy oil
Production and decline
Future possibilities of Anderson County
Relation between accumulation and structure in the oil shoestrings
Barren sand and sand containing heavy oil
Absence of water from the oil sand
Discovering and tracing shoestring sand bodies
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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web Feb. 6, 2018; originally published June 15, 1927.
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