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Anderson County Oil and Gas

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Contents

Introduction

General statement

Acknowledgments

Location and culture

Topography and drainage

History of oil and gas development

Stratigraphy

Rocks exposed

Quaternary system

Recent series

Tertiary (?) system

Chert gravel

Size analyses

Pennsylvanian system

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

Rocks not exposed

Pennsylvanian system

Kansas City formation

Marmaton formation

Cherokee shale

Mississippian system

Mississippian (?) system

Ordovician and Cambrian systems

Pre-Cambrian rocks

Structure

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

Accumulation of oil and gas

General conditions

Conditions in Anderson County

Oil and gas sands

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

The oil and gas fields

Statistics of Anderson County production

Pottawatomie Valley field

Location

Development

Surface structure

Subsurface structure

Sands

Relation of accumulation to structure

Production

Garnett shoestring

Location

Development

Structure

Relation of accumulation to structure

Sand

The white shale

Production and decline

Air recovery

Polkinghorn gas field

Location

Development

Structure

Contents

Sands

Relation of production to structure

Production and decline

Welda field

Location

Development

Structure

Sands

Production

Colony oil field

Location

Development

Structure

Sand

Relation of accumulation to structure

Production and decline

Colony gas field

Location

Development

Surface structure

Subsurface structure

Relation of production to structure

Sand

Production and decline

Bush City shoestring

Location

Development

Structure

Sand

Relation of accumulation to structure

Heavy oil

Production and decline

Other fields

Refineries and pipe lines

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

General conclusions

References

Plates


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web Feb. 6, 2018; originally published June 15, 1927.
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