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Descriptions of Insoluble Residues
Detailed descriptions of insoluble residues of cuttings of pre-St. Peter rocks in 15 representative wells are given below. These wells are shown on Plate 6.
La Salle Oil Company No. 1 Gobl, SE cor. NW sec. 20, T. 28 S., R. 25 E., Crawford County, Kansas. No. 13, cross sections B-B' and E-E" (Figs. 10 and 12).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
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Eroded top of Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 725. | ||
725-730 | 12 | Chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 30%; chert, fine, dolocastic, some of the fragments having a nondolocastic core, 30%; shale, caved, gray, 30%; pyrite, massive, some of it pitted and rather spongy in appearance, 10%. |
730-740 | 20 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 100% trace massive pyrite. |
740-750 | 20 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous, 70%; chert, dolocastic (dolocasts are coarse, 0.2 mm diameter, and matrix is soft, porous), 30%; trace massive pyrite. |
750-760 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous to somewhat quartzose, 95%; aggregates of quartz crystals, 5%. |
760-770 | 10 | Chert, blue and brown, translucent, with large brown oölites approximately 0.8 mm diameter, banded and ringed with white dense chert, 100%. |
770-780 | 25 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered dolocasts, 80%; shale, greenish-gray, soft, with scattered pyrite crystals, 15%; chert, medium fine, dolocastic, 5%. |
780-790 | Samples missing. | |
790-800 | 12 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous, with veinlets of crystalline quartz and scattered white oölites, 85%; chert, fine, soft, porous, dolocastic, 15%. |
800-810 | 15 | Chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, grading into a semitranslucent, vitreous chert, 80%; chert, very finely dolocastic, 10%; sand, extremely well sorted, in clusters (grains average 0.2mm diameter; some secondary quartz enlargement has taken place) 10%. |
810-820 | 2 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with scattered white banded oölites, grading to white semitranslucent vitreous chert, 98%; sand, as above, 2%. |
820-830 | 25 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, with small white banded oölites, 70%; chert, medium fine, dolocastic, soft and porous, dolocasts closely spaced, walls thin, unbroken, 20%; chert, white to cream, porcelaneous, 10%. |
830-840 | 20 | Chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 40% chert, cream to white, porcelaneous, 26%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, with numerous brown translucent oölites ringed with dense white chert, 20%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%; sand, clusters of fine, bright, angular, well sorted, 2%; sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, showing secondary quartz enlargement, 2%; trace bright green shale. |
840-850 | 10 | Chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, with very fine pyrite crystals scattered over the surface, 85%; chert, medium fine, dolocastic (walls are thin and broken; some fragments have dense chert at the core), 10%; chert, white, porcelaneous, 5%. |
850-860 | 15 | Chert, medium fine, dolocastic (matrix is porous, walls thin but broken, and chert has a mealy appearance), 50%; chert, white porcelaneous, 20%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; chert, quartzose, and aggregates of quartz crystals, 10%; trace of green shale. |
860-870 | 25 | Chert, tan to cream, semitranslucent, with scattered large, brown, translucent and white, clear oölites, 85%; chert, quartzose, and aggregates of quartz crystals, 10%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
870-880 | 25 | Chert, light tan to cream, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered large brown oölites, 85%; chert, cream, vitreous, porcelaneous, 10%; chert, quartzose, and aggregates of quartz crystals, 5%. |
880-890 | 10 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, contain- ing clear glassy oölites or included sand grains, 75%; chert, coarse, dolocastic, walls thick and unbroken, 10%; quartz, crystalline, aggregates, and quartzose chert, 10%; chert, cream, vitreous, porcelaneous, 5%. |
890-900 | 10 | Chert, tan with brown oölites, as above, 40%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.2mm diameter, (larger grains, approximately 0.5 mm diameter, may be rounded and frosted), 30%; chert, tan, quartzose, 20%; chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, 10%; trace green shale. |
900-910 | 15 | Chert, light tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 80%; chert, tan, quartzose, as above, 20%. |
910-920 | 12 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, with scattered dark brown oölites, 85%; quartz, drusy, medium dark brown crystalline, 10%; quartz fragments, crystalline, clear, 5%. |
920-930 | 20 | Chert, very finely dolocastic, fragments having a mealy appearance, 95%; chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, with scattered pyrite crystals on surface, 5%. |
930-940 | 20 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with fine pyrite crystals scattered on surface, 65%; chert, finely dolocastic, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, medium brown, crystalline, 10%; quartz fragments, milky, 5%. |
940-950 | 15 | Chert, cream to tan, dense, somewhat granular, 40%; chert, bluish to tan, translucent, opalescent, 35%; chert, fine, dolocastic, as above, 15%; quartz, drusy, brown, as above, 10%. |
950-960 | 18 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, with numerous white dense and brown translucent oölites, 70%; chert, cream to white, vitreous, porcelaneous, 15%; quartz fragments, angular, 10%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 5%. |
960-970 | 15 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, with numerous dark brown oölites, 85%; quartz, crystalline, fragments, and a few terminated quartz crystals, 10% sand, poorly sorted, rounded, frosted, 5%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 970. | ||
970-975 | 20 | Chert, tan to bluish, as above, 60%; chert, light tan, drusy, 25%; sand bright angular averaging 0.2mm diameter, 15%. |
975-980 | 10 | Chert, tan to bluish, as above, 65%; chert, tan, drusy, and fragments brown quartzose chert, 20%; sand, medium coarse, bright, angular, averaging approximately 0.4 mm diameter (trace of doubly terminated quartz crystals), 15%. |
980-990 | 20 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter and secondarily enlarged (few grains 1.0 mm diameter rounded and frosted), 30%; chert, quartzose, 30%; chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, 20%; chert, cream to tan, semitranslucent, 20%. |
990-1000 | 10 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 30%; chert, quartzose, 20%. |
1000-1030 | 15 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, with numerous large white oölites which may be included sand grains, 50%. |
1030-1040 | 5 | Sand as above, 75%; chert, bluish-white, as above, oölites less numerous, 25%. |
1040-1050 | 1 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense, with numerous large included sand grains, 50%. |
1050-1060 | Samples missing. | |
1060-1065 | 12 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 20%. |
1065-1070 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, with a few included sand grains, 50%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, tan, semitranslucent to quartzose, 20%; white oölites which may be coated sand grains are free in the sample; trace of bright green shale. |
1070-1110 | 30 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1110-1115 | 1 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, dull to quartzose, 25%. |
1115-1135 | 25 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
Top Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 1135. | ||
1135-1145 | 10 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent,vitreous, 50%; quartz, drusy, white to medium dark gray, brown, and light green, 25%; sand as above, 25%. |
1145-1200 | Samples missing. | |
1200-1220 | 20 | Chert, cream to white, dense, vitreous, 90%; chert, lacy, dolocastic, 10%. |
1220-1230 | 15 | Chert, cream to white, as above, 80%; chert, tripolitic, 20%. |
1230-1240 | 10 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous, 60%; chert, tripolitic, 40%. |
1240-1250 | 12 | Chert, tripolitic, 50%; chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, grading to semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%. |
1250-1270 | 10 | Chert, tripolitic, 40%; chert, porcelaneous, as above, 30%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 30%. |
1270-1310 | 10 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 100%. The surface of many of the fragments is altered to tripolitic chert. |
1310-1320 | 5 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 45%; chert, very coarsely dolocastic (0.4 mm diameter), lacy-appearing, white, 30%; chert, quartzose, 20%; sand, ranging from 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, mostly rounded, 5%; considerable amount spongy pyrite. |
1320-1330 | 10 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 35%; chert, quartzose, and aggregates of crystalline quartz, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; chert, tripolitic, 15%. |
Top Gunter sandstone member of the Van Buren formation, 1330. | ||
1330-1340 | 5 | Sand, ranging from 1.0 mm to 0.1 mm in diameter (all but finest grains are rounded and frosted, some grains being perfectly spherical), 80%; chert, porcelaneous, 15%; chert, dolocastic, 5%. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 1340. | ||
1340-1350 | 5 | Sand, as above, except many grains are bright and angular due to secondary quartz enlargement, 70%; chert, white to cream, porcelaneous, 30%; aggregates of pyrite crystals present. |
1350-1360 | 8 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, opalescent, 30%; chert, white, porcelaneous, 20%; chert, light tan, translucent, quartzose, 10%. |
1360-1370 | 3 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous, 35%; chert, coarse, lacy, dolocastic, 10%; chert, tripolitic, 5%; trace angular fragments milky and crystalline quartz. |
1370-1380 | No residue. | |
1380-1400 | 8 | Sand, as above, 70%.; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 30%. |
1400-1410 | 0.5 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, 40%; sand, as above, 40%; chert, drusy, and angular crystalline quartz fragments, 20%; considerable amount of pyrite in aggregates of fine crystals. |
1410-1420 | 0.2 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 80%; sand, fine, approximately 0.2 mm diameter, rounded and frosted, 10%; masses of fine pyrite crystals, 10%. |
1420-1430 | 1 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 60%; sand, as above, 30%; quartz, angular fragments, milky, 10%; considerable amount of crystalline pyrite. |
1430-1440 | 2 | Chert, white, as above, 65%; sand, as above, 25%; chert, light tan, drusy, 10%. |
1440-1450 | 1 | Chert, quartzose and drusy, 90%; pyrite, in spongy and finely crystalline masses, 10%. |
1450-1460 | 2 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 45%; chert, light tan, translucent to quartzose, 25%; sand, bright, angular, 1.0 mm to 0.1 mm diameter but averaging 0.7 mm diameter, 20%; chert, finely dolocastic, porous, 10%; considerable amount of pyrite in masses of fine crystals, some of them in the shape of tiny balls. |
1460-1470 | 3 | Chert, white, semiquartzose, 55%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, tan, quartzose, as above, 15%; considerable amount spongy pyrite. |
1470-1480 | 2 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%; sand, as above, 40%; chert, finely dolocastic, porous 10%; considerable amount of pyrite in fine crystal aggregates. |
1480-1490 | 3 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, with numerous scattered large dolocasts 0.2 mm diameter, 90%; sand, as above, 10%; considerable amount of spongy pyrite and pyrite balls. |
1480-1490 (duplicate sample) |
0.1 | Chert, white, drusy, 50%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 20%; pyrite, both massive and in aggregates of fine crystals, 15%; chert, tan, as above, 15%. |
1490-1500 | 3 | Chert, tan, with scattered dolocasts as above, |
1500-1507 | 0.1 | Chert, tan, with scattered dolocasts, as above, 75%; pyrite, spongy, tarnished, 25%. |
1507-1512 | 0.1 | Chert, very finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 100%; considerable amount spongy pyrite. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 1512. | ||
1512-1567 | 5 | Shale, brown, spongy, sandy, 100% considerable amount massive pyrite. |
1567-1573 | 3 | Shale, brown, spongy, sandy, 100%; considerable amount glauconite grains and massive pyrite fragments. |
1573-1587 | 8 | Shale, light brown, spongy, sandy, 100%; considerable amount of massive pyrite. |
1587-1605 | 15 | Shale, brown, spongy, sandy, becoming clusters of very fine sand, 100%; minor amount of pyrite. |
1605-1635 | 30 | Sand, very fine (75% in clusters and 25% free), 100%; minor amount of pyrite; trace glauconite. |
1635-1655 | 25 | Sand, very fine, approximately 50% free, 100%; fine grains of glauconite are associated with the sand clusters and free sand. |
1655-1668 | 23 | Sand, very fine, in clusters and free, associated with a very great deal of glauconite in fine and very large grains, 100%. |
1663-1685 | 25 | Sand, micaceous, fine, in clusters and free, associated with fine grains of glauconite, 100%. |
1685-1690 | 25 | Sand, fine, associated with a very great deal of glauconite in fine and large grains, some of which measure 1.0 mm across, and small fragments of mica, 100%. |
1690-1699 | 37 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1699-1710 | Samples missing. | |
Top Lamotte sandstone, 1710. | ||
1710-1713 | 45 | Sand, coarse, averaging 0.8 mm diameter, and rounded and frosted, 100%. |
1713-1720 | 72 | Sand, coarse, both rounded frosted and bright angular, 100%. |
1720-1725 | 100 | Sand, coarse, bright, angular, averaging 1.0 mm diameter, 100%; quartz crystal faces and crystal terminations common. |
1725-1730 | 100 | Sand, as above, but including large flaky and sharp needle-like fragments of quartz, 100%. |
1730-1760 | 100 | Sand, as above, 100%; some grains appear to be derived from amethyst quartz. |
1760-1842 | 100 | Sand, coarse, basal, as above, with numerous flaky grains, 100%; few pieces weathered feldspar. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 1840. | ||
T. D. Pink granite. |
Holeman and Edwards No. 9 Pollman, SE SE sec. 35, T. 19 S., R. 24 E., Linn County, Kansas. No. 24, cross section C-C' (Fig. 11).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
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Samples start 882 | ||
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 889. | ||
889-896 | 44 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, waxy, 40%; chert, light, tan, translucent, semiquartzose, with a few large brown oölites, 40%; chert, cream, dense, with altered tripolitic surface, 20%. |
896-900 | 34 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, semiquartzose, 60%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.4mm diameter, 20%; chert, white, vitreous, porcelaneous, with some altered surfaces tripolitic and dolocastic, 20%; trace spongy pyrite. |
900-905 | 20 | Chert, bluish-white, as above, 60%; chert, cream, porcelaneous, with scattered medium fine dolocasts, 25%; sand, as above, 15%. |
905-910 | 16 | Chert, bluish, translucent, opalescent, 75%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, porcelaneous, with scattered dolocasts, 5%. |
910-915 | 6 | Chert, bluish, as above, 70%; chert, white, porcelaneous, 15%; sand, as above, 15%. |
915-920 | 40 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous to semiquartzose, showing occasional bandings, 70%; chert, cream, very finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 30%. |
920-925 | 40 | Chert, white to tan, as above, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; sand, bright, angular, 5%. |
925-930 | 48 | Sand, bright, angular, ranging from 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter with flaky grains and quartz crystal faces indicative of secondary enlargement, 95%; chert, white, as above, 5%. |
930-935 | 64 | Chert, medium dark gray and white semitranslucent, vitreous, 100%. |
935-945 | 26 | Sand, bright, angular, secondarily enlarged, 50% chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%. |
945-960 | 10 | Chert, white, as above, 100%. |
960-965 | 30 | Chert, white, as above, 87%; chert, cream, dull, dense to finely porous, 8%; chert, drusy, brown, 5%. |
965-970 | 8 | Chert, white, as above, 90%; chert, dense to porous, as above, 10%. |
970-975 | 10 | Chert, white, as above, 87%; chert, dense to porous, 8%; chert, tan, drusy, 5%. |
975-980 | 14 | Chert, white, as above, 80%; chert, brown, drusy, 10%; chert, dense to porous, as above, 5%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 5%. |
980-985 | 10 | Chert, white as above, 85%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%; chert, brown, drusy, 5%. |
985-990 | 8 | Chert, white, as above, 70%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, with flaky grains, and quartz crystal faces indicative of secondary enlargement, 20%; chert, brown, drusy, 10%. |
990-995 | Samples missing. | |
995-1000 | 14 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 60%; chert, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 30%; sand, 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter, angular, bright, rounded, frosted, 10%. |
1000-1005 | 4 | Chert, drusy, brown, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, 30%; chert, cream, porcelaneous, 20%. |
1005-1015 | 10 | Chert, drusy, brown, 75%; chert, bluish, as above, 25%. |
1015-1020 | 34 | Sand, bright, very angular, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, 30%; chert, white, with included sand grains, 20%. |
1020-1025 | 12 | Sand, bright, angular, and sand grains in chert, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, 40%; chert, tan, dense, with scattered oölites, 10%. |
1025-1030 | 28 | Chert, cream, porous to tripolitic, 75%; chert, bluish as above, 25%. |
1030-1035 | 2 | Chert, bluish, as above, 40%; chert, porous, as above, 30%; chert, dark brown, drusy, 30%. |
1035-1040 | 12 | Chert, bluish, as above 55%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 0.3 to 0.8 mm diameter, rounded, frosted, 25%; chert, porous, as above, 20%. |
1040-1045 | 26 | Chert, bluish, as above, 70%; chert, porous, as above, 30%. |
1045-1050 | 22 | Chert, bluish, as above, 80%; chert, tripolitic, white, dense, 20%. |
1050-1055 | 58 | Chert, white, quartzose, 80%; sand, bright, angular, 20%; trace of oölites or sand grains encrusted with drusy quartz. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 1055. | ||
1055-1060 | 38 | Sand, bright, angular, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, and sand grains in chert, 80%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 20%. |
1060-1065 | 30 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%. |
1065-1070 | 30 | Sand, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 100%. Approximately 70% is rounded, frosted and 30% bright, extremely angular. |
1070-1075 | 12 | Sand, bright, angular, (few grains 1.0 mm diameter, rounded, frosted), 80%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%. |
1075-1080 | 28 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 45%; sand, poorly sorted, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, the larger grains rounded and frosted, 45%; chert, bluish, as above, 10%. |
1080-1085 | 46 | Sand, poorly sorted, as above, 100%. |
1085-1090 | 34 | Chert, blue to tan, dense, with numerous included sand grains, 75%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 25%. |
1090-1095 | 22 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 90 chert, bluish-white, translucent, 10%. |
1095-1100 | 28 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 70%; chert, gray, quartzose, 30%. |
1100-1110 | 28 | Sand, bright, angular, 65%; sand, rounded, frosted, 20%; chert, gray, quartzose, 15%. |
1110-1115 | 22 | Sand, bright, angular, 55%; chert, bluish-white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 45%. |
1115-1120 | 8 | Sand, 100% (50% is fine, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, and 50% coarse, rounded, frosted, ranging up to 0.8 mm diameter); considerable amount of spongy pyrite. |
1120-1125 | 8 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1125-1130 | 4 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, bluish, translucent, with numerous included sand grains, 40%. |
1130-1135 | 4 | Sand, very fine, bright, angular, averaging less than 0.1 mm diameter, 75%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 25%. |
1135-1140 | 30 | Chert, bluish, as above, 70%; sand, as above, 30%. |
1140-1155 | 14 | Chert; bluish, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
1155-1160 | 10 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish, as above, 20%. |
1160-1165 | 2 | Sand, bright, angular, poorly sorted, ranging from 0.1 to 0.8mm diameter, 100%; considerable amount crystalline pyrite. |
1165-1170 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, 30%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, dark brown, drusy, 20%; chert, gray quartzose to vitreous, 20%. |
1170-1175 | 80 | Sand, coarse, bright, angular, averaging 1.0 mm diameter, 100%; Conchoidal fracture, flaky grains and quartz crystal faces in evidence. |
1175-1180 | 18 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.8 mm diameter, with trace rounded, frosted grains, 90%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 10%. |
1180-1185 | 8 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, with flaky grains and quartz crystal faces common, 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
Top Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 1190. | ||
1185-1195 | 4 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 60%; sand, as above, 40%. |
1195-1200 | 28 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
1200-1205 | 4 | Chert, as above, 65%; sand, coarse to fine, bright, angular, 20%; chert, brown, drusy, 15%. |
1205-1208 | 1 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
1208-1220 | 1 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; chert, as above, 50%; considerable amount of crystalline pyrite. |
1220-1222 | 72 | Chert, tan to medium dark brown, semitranslucent, semiquartzose to vitreous, with encrustations of quartz crystals, 100%. |
1222-1225 | 48 | Chert, white, dull, dense, 50%; chert, cream, tripolitic, 50%. |
1225-1230 | 28 | Same as above. |
1230-1235 | 36 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 90%; chert, tripolitic, with scattered dolocasts, 10%. |
1235-1245 | Samples missing. | |
1245-1250 | 52 | Chert, bluish-white, as above, 100%. |
1250-1255 | 36 | Chert, as above, 90%; chert, white, dull, dense, 10% |
1255-1260 | 28 | Chert, bluish, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%. |
1260-1265 | 10 | Chert, bluish, as above, 70%; chert, rough, as above, with scattered medium fine dolocasts, 30%. |
1265-1270 | 8 | Chert, cream, dense, smooth, porcelaneous, 50%; chert, cream, rough, dense, 50%. |
1270-1276 | 8 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 80%; chert, rough, as above, 20%; trace fragments of crystalline quartz. |
1276-1282 | 12 | Chert, white, smooth, vitreous, porcelaneous, with scattered large brown translucent oölites, 100%. |
1282-1286 | 24 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
1286-1292 | 14 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
1292-1294 | Samples missing. | |
1294-1297 | 18 | Chert, white, dense, quartzose, with veinings and encrustations of crystalline quartz, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, with scattered medium large dolocasts, 30%. |
1297-1303 | 16 | Chert, rough, as above, 50%; chert, tan, smooth, vitreous to quartzose, with scattered tan dense oölites and veinings of crystalline quartz, 50%. |
1303-1310 | 10 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
1310-1324 | 34 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
Top Gunter sandstone member of the Van Buren formation, 1324. | ||
1324-1330 | 24 | Sand, bright, angular, ranging from 10 to 0.1 mm diameter (quartz crystal faces indicate secondary enlargement), 75%; chert, white, dense, smooth to rough, 25%; trace white oölites free in sample. |
1330-1335 | 18 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, smooth to rough, as above, 40%. |
1335-1340 | 12 | Ozokerite (?) 100%. |
1340-1345 | 2 | Sand, bright, angular, ranging from 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 70%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 30%; trace spongy pyrite. |
1345-1350 | 2 | Chert, light tan, smooth, dense to semitranslucent, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
1350-1355 | 2 | Sand, mostly rounded and frosted, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 70%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, with scattered large light tan translucent oölites, 30%; considerable amount of crystalline pyrite. |
1355-1360 | 18 | Chert, tan, smooth, semitranslucent to dense, 70%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 30%. |
1360-1372 | 14 | Sand, bright, angular, secondarily enlarged, ranging from 0.9 to 0.1 mm diameter, 80%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 20%; trace white oölites free in sample. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 1370. | ||
1372-1378 | 16 | Chert, tan, smooth, dense, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
1378-1384 | 22 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, grading to medium gray, translucent, 60%; chert, white, smooth, dense, 25%; sand, bright, angular, and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 10%; quartz, drusy, dark brown, 5%. |
1384-1390 | 4 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, semiquartzose, 60%; chert, white, smooth, dense, 25%; sand, bright, angular, 15%. |
1390-1400 | 2 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 70%; chert, white, smooth, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, very dark brown, 10%. |
1400-1405 | 1 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, quartzose, 50% chert, white, dense, smooth to rough, 30%; aggregates fine pyrite crystals, 10%; sand, bright, angular, and rounded, frosted, 10%. |
1405-1415 | 1 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 70%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%; sand, as above, 10%. |
1415-1430 | -1 | Trace sand and chert. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 1430? Samples 1430-88 may represent an upper shaly phase of the Bonneterre dolomite. | ||
1430-1478 | 1 | Shale, greenish-brown, waxy, smooth, 100%; trace sand and quartzose material; considerable amount of crystalline and spongy pyrite. |
1478-1488 | 6 | Shale, very waxy, smooth, laminated, dolocastic, green, 100%. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 1510. | ||
1488-1527 | 2 | Pyrite, massive, spongy, 50%; shale, green, as above, 50%. |
1527-1537 | 4 | Quartz, drusy, white, 70%; sand, rounded, averaging 0.8 mm diameter, blue color suggesting derivation from blue translucent chert, 30%; much massive pyrite. |
1537-1542 | 4 | Sand grains, blue, 70%; shale, waxy, green, 20%; chert, quartzose, 10%; much massive and spongy pyrite. |
1542-1547 | 4 | Sand grains, blue, 60%; pyrite, massive, spongy, 30%; shale, waxy, green, 10%. |
1547-1552 | 4 | Sand, blue, 65%; pyrite, spongy, 30%; shale, waxy. green, 5%. |
1552-1565 | 28 | Sand grains, bright, angular, blue, 1.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, 100%; trace amethyst quartz. |
1565-1581 | 48 | Sand, as above, 100%; trace green shale. |
1581-1600 | 52 | Sand, as above, 100%; trace green shale. |
T. D. 1601 |
R. F. Duffens et al. No. 1 Stanley, NW NE NW sec. 3, T. 14 S, R. 21 E., Douglas County, Kansas. No. 30, cross sections D-D' and E-E' (Figs. 12 and 13)
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 1712. | ||
1712-1716 | 80 | Sand, coarse, poorly sorted, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, mostly rounded and frosted, 60%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, with included sand grains, 25%; chert, light tan, translucent, quartzose, 15%. |
1716-1724 | 70 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 30%; sand, extremely fine, 0.1 mm to fine powder, 20%; chert, brown, semitranslucent, quartzose, 20%. |
1724-1730 | 55 | Sand, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.6 mm diameter, 75%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 25%. |
1730-1733 | 70 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, rough, 25%. |
1733-1737 | 55 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense to translucent, 10%; a considerable amount of crystalline pyrite. |
1737-1744 | 40 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
1744-1750 | 40 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough to semitranslucent, vitreous, 30%. |
1750-1753 | 70 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 30%. |
1753-1757 | 80 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 25%. |
1757-1761 | 80 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, white, as above, 25%; chert, brown, semitranslucent, 10%. |
1761-1763 | 70 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense to bluish, semitranslucent, 25%. |
1763-1766 | 50 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, 25%. |
1766-1773 | 70 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, white, soft, very finely dolocastic, 30%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 30%. |
1773-1777 | 75 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 20%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 10%. |
1777-1780 | 60 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
1780-1782 | 75 | Sand, as above, less pyritic, 80%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 20%. |
1782-1784 | 55 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, as above, 15%. |
1784-1788 | 60 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, soft, tripolitic, 20%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 10%. |
1788-1792 | 50 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, translucent, as above, 5%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 5%. |
1792-1797 | 65 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
1797-1802 | 65 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, smooth to rough, 10%; chert, as above, 5%. |
1802-1805 | 65 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
1805-1810 | 35 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
1810-1814 | 30 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, white, dense, smooth to bluish, translucent, 5%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 1818. | ||
1814-1823 | 25 | Sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, to fine, bright, angular, 90%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
1823-1826 | 65 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, smooth to rough, 10%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, 5%. |
1826-1830 | 40 | Sand, with a greater proportion of subrounded grains 0.1 mm diameter, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
1830-1834 | 32 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, granular, 20%. |
1834-1837 | 25 | Sand, mostly fine, bright, angular grains, and few rounded, frosted and secondarily enlarged grains 0.5 mm diameter, 75%; chert, white, dense, dull, with included sand grains, 25%. |
1837-1838 | 25 | Sand, bright, angular, 0.3 mm diameter, 75%; chert, white, dense, 25%. |
1838-1849 | 50 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
1849-1852 | 45 | Chert, white, dense, dull, and trace free white oölites, 90%; sand, fine, bright, angular, as above, 10%. |
1852-1856 | 5 | Chert, white dense to semitranslucent, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
1856-1861 | 30 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
1861-1866 | 5 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
1866-1870 | 12 | Sand, bright, extremely angular, 0.3 mm diameter, 55%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 40%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
1870-1875 | 18 | Sand, as above, 70%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 10%. |
1875-1880 | 15 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 25%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%. |
1880-1885 | 25 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%. |
1885-1900 | 32 | Sand, as above, pyritic, 65%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 25%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%. |
1900-1902 | 40 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, 100%. |
1902-1905 | 40 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
1905-1923 | 32 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, as above, with trace rounded, frosted grains, 75%; chert, white, dense to translucent, 25%. |
1923-1928 | 60 | Sand, bright, angular and rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5mm diameter, 70%; chert, bluish, translucent, 30%. |
1928-1933 | 40 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, very finely dolocastic, quartzose, 15%; chert, as above, 10%. |
1933-1936 | 30 | Sand, as above, but with greater proportion fine powdery grains less than 0.1 mm diameter, 85%; chert, bluish, translucent, 15%. |
1936-1939 | 30 | Sand, as above, 80%; quartz, drusy, gray, 10%; chert, bluish-white, dense to semitranslucent, 10%. |
1939-1941 | 40 | Quartz, drusy, gray, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
1941-1943 | 35 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 40%. |
1943-1947 | 40 | Sand, as above, 50%; quartz, drusy, gray, 30%; chert, as above, 20%; trace ozokerite? |
1947-1954 | 50 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, gray, 10%. |
1954-1956 | 50 | Sample too small to make residues. |
1956-1960 | 50 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%. |
1960-1970 | Samples missing. | |
1970-1973 | 15 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, bluish, translucent, semiquartzose, 40%; chert, white, soft, coarsely dolocastic, 10%. |
1973-1976 | 8 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, bluish, translucent, semiquartzose, 20%; chert, cream, soft, crumbly, tripolitic, 10%. |
1976-1983 | 10 | Sand, coarse, 1.0 mm diameter, and fine, bright angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 70%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
1980-1984 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
Top Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 1985. | ||
1984-1992 | 25 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent to translucent, 20%. |
1992-2009 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2009-2011 | 10 | Sand, coarse and fine, with grains less than 0.1 mm diameter, 75%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 25%. |
2011-2019 | 40 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%. |
2019-2025 | 10 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
2025-2029 | 20 | Sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, 90%.; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
2025-2032 | 30 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, 50%.; chert, white, semitranslucent, quartzose, 30%; sand grains, large, rounded, frosted, 20%. |
2032-2036 | 20 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 50%; chert, white, dense, rough, 40%; chert, soft, white, crumbly, tripolitic, 10%. |
2036-2045 | 25 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 100%. |
2045-2048 | 40 | Sand, coarse to fine, rounded, frosted, 60%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 40%. |
2048-2051 | 50 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent to dense, 20%. |
2051-2056 | 30 | Sand, pyritic, as above, 60%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 40%. |
2056-2061 | 20 | Chert, as above, 60%; sand, as above, 40%. |
2061-2065 | 20 | Chert, as above, 80%; sand, as above, 20~. |
2065-2072 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous to bluish, semitranslucent, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
2072-2075 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2075-2082 | 25 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 30%. |
2082-2087 | 30 | Sand, as above, 55%; chert, as above, 45%. |
2087-2090 | 15 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, smooth to semiquartzose, 20%. |
2090-2094 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2094-2099 | 20 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, 85%; sand, pyritic, as above, 15%. |
2099-2106 | 10 | Chert, as above, 85%; sand, as above, 15%. |
2106-2111 | 5 | Sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5mm diameter, 40%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 40%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 20%. |
2111-2125 | 10 | Sand, well sorted, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 70%; chert, white, dense, dull, 30%. |
2125-2134 | 10 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, well sorted, 40%; chert, white, dense, dull, 30%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 30%. |
2134-2141 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2141-2155 | 50 | Chert, white semitranslucent, quartzose, 65%; sand, as above, and quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 20%; chert, cream, soft, crumbly, rough, 15%. |
2155-2161 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2161-2166 | 10 | Chert, white, translucent, quartzose, 65%; sand, bright, angular, 0.3 to 0.1 mm diameter, 25%; chert, cream, rough, crumbly, |
2166-2170 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, quartzose, sand, as above, 35%; chert, white, dense, dull, 10%; chert, white, soft, tripolitic, 5%. |
2170-2180 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2180-2184 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, quartzose, 60%; sand, as above, 40%. |
Top Gunter sandstone member of the Van Buren, 2185. | ||
2184-2191 | 20 | Sand, poorly sorted, subrounded, ranging from 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter, 80%; chert, as above, 20%. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 2191. | ||
2191-2194 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, quartzose, 65%; sand, medium fine, bright, angular, 30%; chert, cream, soft, tripolitic, 5%. |
2194-2200 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, quartzose, 50%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 25%; sand, as above, 25%. |
2200-2205 | No sample. | |
2205-2213 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 75%; sand, pyritic, as above, 25%. |
2213-2217 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 60%; sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, to fine, bright, angular, 30%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%. |
2217-2228 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2228-2231 | 5 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%; chert, blue, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2231-2272 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2272-2275 | 5 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%; chert, white, translucent, quartzose, 10%.; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%. |
2275-2283 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2283-2287 | 16 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10% chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2287-2296 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2296-2298 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 25%. | |
2298-2300 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, white, 40%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 30%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%. |
2300-2301 | 10 | Quartz, drusy, as above, 50%; chert, bluish, translucent, 30%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 20%. |
2301-2308 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2308-2310 | 7 | Sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, to fine, bright, angular, 70%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 20%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%. |
2310-2314 | 16 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 30%. |
2314-2317 | 5 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 70%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 30%. |
2317-2319 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2319-2323 | 30 | Sand, medium coarse, poorly sorted, rounded, frosted, to fine, bright, angular, 80%; chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, 20%. |
2323-2335 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2335-2337 | 20 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2337-2342 | 15 | Sand, as above, with trace rounded feldspar grains, 90%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2342-2346 | 8 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, quartzose, 90%; sand, very fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
2346-2348 | 15 | Chert, buff, soft, crumbly, porous, 70%; chert, blue to tan, dense, vitreous, 20%; sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, 10%. |
2348-2352 | 20 | Chert, finely dolocastic, 80%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%; sand grains, rounded, coarse, 5%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 5%. |
2352-2354 | 25 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 80%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 5%. |
2354-2356 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
2356-2360 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 40%; chert, finely dolocastic, as above, 20%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 2366. | ||
2360-2367 | 10 | Chert, white, translucent, quartzose, 60% sand, as above, with quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 30%; chert, white, medium finely dolocastic, 10%. |
2367-2372 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, light tan, 80%; sand and quartz, as above, 20%. |
2372-2375 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 90%; sand grains, rounded frosted, and fragments, 10%; quartz, crystalline, angular. |
2375-2383 | 1 | Quartz, drusy, tan, with much pyrite, 75%; sand and quartz, as above, 25%. |
2383-2389 | 1 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 50%; quartz, drusy, brown, 35%; chert, white, dense, dull, 10%; chert, dolocastic, 5%. |
2389-2395 | 1 | Chert, brown, dense to semitranslucent, 40%; chert, blue, translucent, 25%; pyrite, 25%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
2395-2398 | 1 | Chert, white, dense, semiquartzose, 45%; shale, cream, soft, waxy, (cavings?), 20%; pyrite, 20%; sand, bright, angular, and angular fragments quartz, 15%. |
2398-2400 | 1 | Shale, slightly dolocastic, brown, 20%; sand, rounded, frosted, and bright, angular, 20%; chert, brown, dense to semitranslucent, 20%; pyrite, 15%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
2400-2402 | 1 | Chert, brown, semitranslucent, quartzose, 50%; pyrite, 25%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 15%; sand, bright, angular, 10%. |
2402-2403 | 1 | Sand, rounded, frosted, 2.O mm diameter, to bright, angular grains less than 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 25%; chert, tan, quartzose, 25%. |
2403-2404 | 1 | Shale, light brown, dolocastic, with glauconite inclusions, 50%; sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 25%; quartz, drusy, brown, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%; much crystalline and massive pyrite. |
2404-2405 | 4 | Sand, well sorted, secondarily enlarged, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 80%; chert, tan to white, dense, 20%; much pyrite. |
2405-2408 | 2 | Sand, pyritic, as above, 100%. |
2408-2409 | 1 | Sand, fine, as above, 100%. |
2409-2411 | 8 | Quartz, drusy, tan, 70%; sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, 30%. |
2411-2415 | 2 | Chert, tan, quartzose, 85%; sand, coarse, as above, 10%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 5%; many rounded glauconite grains and much crystalline pyrite. |
2415-2418 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, tan, 90%; chert, bluish, translucent, 5%; sand, as above, 5%; much massive and crystalline pyrite. |
2418-2420 | 3 | Sand, very fine, in clusters, with large glauconite grains, 80%; sand, as above, 10%; pyrite, massive and finely crystalline, 10%. |
2420-2428 | 5 | Sand, fine, glauconitic, as above, 100%. |
2428-2433 | 10 | Sand, glauconitic, fine, as above, 50%; shale, greenish- gray to brown, dolocastic, 50%. |
2433-2437 | 20 | Shale, as above, 80%; sand, fine, glauconitic, brown, shaly aggregates, 20%. |
2437-2443 | 30 | Shale, dolocastic, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50% |
2443-2450 | 15 | Shale, brown to green with fine dolocasts and included glauconite grains, 100%. |
2450-2456 | 10 | Shale, dolocastic as above, 90%; glauconite, large grains, 10%. |
Top basal sandstone (Lamotte), 2457. | ||
2456-2460 | 35 | Sand, bright, angular, and round, frosted, averaging 0.6 mm diameter, 100%; much glauconite. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 2463. | ||
2460-2495 | 100 | Pink granite. |
T. D. 2503. |
Glower No. 1 Forkner, NW SE NE sec. 17, T. 33 S., R. 23 E., Cherokee County, Kansas. No. 2, cross section A-A' (Fig. 11).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Jefferson City-Cotter sequence, 685. | ||
685-689 | 45 | Chert, bluish, translucent, contains oölites which appear as darker gray translucent areas, 85%; chert, medium fine, mealy-textured, dolocastic, 15%. |
689-695 | 25 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 90%; chert, dolocastic as above, 10%. |
695-700 | 12 | Sand, medium coarse, poorly sorted (0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter), mostly rounded and frosted and secondarily enlarged, 65%; chert, white, as above, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
700-705 | 25 | Chert, smooth, dense, white, vitreous, with scattered faint brown oölites, 93%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 2%. |
705-710 | 6 | Chert, bluish translucent, containing a few brown translucent oölites, 75%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 15%; chert, white, dense, as above, 10%. |
710-715 | 10 | Chert, smooth, white, dense, vitreous, 76%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 2%; sand grains in chert, 2%. |
720-726 | 30 | Chert, semitranslucent, blue to tan, faintly oölitic, 97%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 3%. |
726-732 | 30 | Chert, as above, with numerous brown banded oölites, 60%; chert, dolocastic, somewhat coarser than previous sample, 40%; a considerable amount of spongy pyrite. |
732-737 | 40 | Chert, as above, 85%; chert, dolocastic, 15%. |
737-743 | 60 | Chert, as above, 80%; chert, dolocastic, very fine, 20%. |
743-745 | 25 | Chert, bluish, translucent, opalescent, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
745-755 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
755-762 | 20 | Chert, blue to brown, translucent, 75%; chert, soft, white, dolocastic, 15%; quartzose material, dark gray, 561o; sand., fine, angular, 5%. |
762-767 | 35 | Chert, very fine, mealy-textured, dolocastic, 80%; sand grains in chert, 10%; chert, white to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
767-775 | 25 | Chert, blue to brown, semitranslucent, 77%; sand, medium coarse, averaging 0.5mm diameter, rounded, frosted and bright and angular, 20%; spongy pyrite, 2%; quartzose material, black to green, 1%. |
773-779 | 25 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 79%; chert, very finely, dolocastic, porous, 20%; quartzose material, 1%. |
779-785 | 8 | Chert, smooth, white, dense, vitreous, 92%; chert, white, soft, rough, porous, 5%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 2%; quartzose material, dark green to black, 1%. |
785-793 | 3 | Chert, white to buff, smooth, dense, vitreous, 50%; chert, bluish, translucent, 25%; quartzose material, yellow-green to gray, 10%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 5%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%; spongy pyrite, 5%. |
793-800 | 25 | Sand, very well sorted, medium fine, free and in friable aggregates, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, and bright and angular, 100%. |
800-805 | 5 | Quartz, milky, angular fragments, 50%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous to quartzose, 50%. |
805-810 | 2 | Chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous, 50%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 25%; sand, fine, bright, angular, poorly sorted, 25%. Larger grains 0.5 mm diameter are rounded, frosted, and secondarily enlarged. |
810-817 | 3 | Chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous, 75%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, opalescent, 20%; sand, as above, 5%. |
817-823 | 30 | Chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 70%; chert, white, dense, 20%; chert, very finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 10%. |
823-828 | 50 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, opalescent, 95%; sand, as above, 5%; much finely crystalline pyrite. |
828-832 | 35 | Chert, white to buff, faintly oölitic, semitranslucent, with veinings and bandings of crystalline quartz, 100%. |
832-837 | 25 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, opalescent, 85%; chert, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 15%. |
837-845 | 10 | Chert, translucent, as above, 75%; sand, medium coarse, angular to rounded, frosted, 0.5 to 1.0 mm diameter, 25%. |
845-849 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
849-852 | 85 | Chert, finely dolocastic, 100%. |
852-858 | 25 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 75%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, opalescent, 25%. |
858-861 | 5 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 50%; chert, translucent, as above, 50%; much spongy pyrite. |
864-870 | 20 | Chert, blue to brown, translucent, containing numerous brown quartzose to translucent oölites, 100%. |
870-876 | 35 | Chert, translucent, blue to brown, opalescent, 75%; chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous, 25%. |
876-881 | 40 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, with numerous large brown translucent oölites, 100%. |
881-888 | 20 | Chert, smooth, white, dense, vitreous, with scattered large brown oölites, 80%; sand, medium fine, bright and angular due to secondary quartz enlargement, 15%; chert, brown, translucent, 5%. |
888-894 | 25 | Chert, brown, dense to translucent, containing scattered banded and translucent oölites, 100%. |
894-900 | 12 | Chert, as above, 98%; chert, soft, porous, slightly dolocastic, white, 2%. |
900-905 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, with numerous included sand grains, 80%; chert, white to bluish, translucent, 10%; sand, fine, angular, 10%. |
905-910 | 35 | Chert, tan to buff, very finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 55%; chert, light brown, semitranslucent, waxy-lustered, 25%; sand, medium coarse, poorly sorted, bright, angular, 15%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
910-916 | 35 | Chert, brown, translucent, waxy-lustered, grading to light tan semitranslucent vitreous chert, 90%; sand, as above, 5%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
916-922 | 25 | Chert, brown, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
922-928 | 25 | Chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 70%; shale (?), cream, finely dolocastic, 25%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
928-934 | 20 | Chert, brown to bluish, semitranslucent, containing numerous translucent brown oölites, 80%; sand, medium coarse, secondarily enlarged, poorly sorted (0.7 to 0.1 mm diameter), 20%. |
934-941 | 50 | Chert, light tan, dense to semitranslucent, 85%; chert, finely dolocastic, 15%. |
941-947 | 25 | Chert, white to buff, dense, smooth, vitreous, 75%; chert, brown, dense, with numerous small brown oölites (0.1 mm diameter), 20%; shale, dark brown, dolocastic, 5%. |
947-953 | 25 | Chert, cream to brown, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 50%; chert, brown to tan, waxy-lustered, containing faint darker brown translucent oölites. |
953-960 | 15 | Chert, brown, as above, 85%; shale, cream, dolocastic, 15%. |
960-965 | 25 | Chert, brown, as above, 85%; chert, cream to light brown, quartzose, dolocastic, 15%. |
965-970 | 20 | Chert, tan, dense, containing numerous dark brown translucent oölites (many oölites are free), 100%. |
970-976 | 50 | Chert, light tan to buff, dense, vitreous, non-oölitic, 100%. |
976-982 | 45 | Chert, tan, dense, as above, 60%; chert, cream, finely dolocastic, porous, 40%. |
982-987 | 10 | Chert, tan, dense, with numerous brown translucent banded oölites, 75%; chert, white, rough, 15%; chert, soft, finely dolocastic, porous, 10%. |
987-992 | 10 | Chert, white, rough, 80%; chert, oölitic, as above, 20%. |
992-998 | 30 | Chert, tan to buff, dense, vitreous, 75%; sand, medium fine, bright, angular, 25%. |
998-1004 | 30 | Chert, dense, as above, 90%; shale, brown to white, dolocastic, 5%; sand, angular, 5%. |
1004-1010 | 25 | Chert, cream to brown, dense, vitreous, 95%; sand, angular, as above, 5%. |
1010-1017 | 18 | Chert, as above, 90%; shale, cream to brown, dolocastic, 10%. |
1017-1024 | 6 | Chert, buff, dense, with scattered fine, brown oölites, 100%. |
1024-1030 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, granular, mottled with dark gray, and covered with fine pyrite crystals, 63%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, 30%; chert, white, soft, rough, 5%; oölites, tan, dense, in crystalline matrix, 2%. |
1030-1035 | 6 | Chert, cream to brown, dense, 60%; chert, gray mottled, with fine pyrite crystals on surface, 38%; shale, brown, spongy, dolocastic, 2%. |
1035-1041 | 30 | Sand, bright, angular, poorly sorted, ranging from 0.5 to-0.1 mm diameter, 60%; chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, 40%. |
1041-1046 | 40 | Chert, dense, as above, 70%; chert, white to brown, medium finely dolocastic, spongy-textured, 30%. |
1046-1052 | 30 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 60%; chert, gray to brown, dense, grainy, with scattered dolocasts, 40%; much pyrite. |
1052-1059 | 25 | Chert, cream, dense, vitreous, with numerous brown translucent oölites, 65%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 30%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
1059-1062 | 60 | Chert, oölitic, as above, 60%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 40,%. |
1062-1065 | 12 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 50%; chert, tan to brown, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%; much pyrite. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 1065. | ||
1065-1070 | 30 | Chert, white to tan, translucent, with brown translucent oölites, 55%; chert, smooth, white, dense, vitreous, 25%; sand, fine bright, angular, 15%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
1070-1075 | 35 | Chert, smooth, white, dense, vitreous, 49%; chert, oölitic, as above, 30%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 30%. |
1075-1080 | 30 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 60%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, faintly oölitic, 20%. |
1080-1085 | 30 | Sand, coarser (0.3 to 1.0 mm diameter), mostly bright, angular but larger grains rounded and frosted, 70%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 20%; chert, oölitic, as above, 10%. |
1085-1090 | 15 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, with smooth vitreous rough surface, 15%; chert, oölitic, as above, 10%. |
1090-1096 | 25 | Sand, as above, 90,%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, with numerous large brown translucent oölites, 10%. |
1096-1102 | 10 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 20%. |
1102-1107 | 10 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, translucent, with scattered brown translucent oölites, 10%. |
1107-1119 | 30 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, non-oölitic, 25%. |
1119-1125 | 20 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, as above, 5%. |
1125-1130 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1130-1136 | 30 | Chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 75%; sand, as above, 25%; scattered free white oölites. |
1136-1141 | 15 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense to blue, translucent, 20%. |
1141-1170 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
1170-1175 | 15 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, as above, 50%. |
1175-1179 | 70 | Chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous to quartzose, faintly oölitic, with crystalline quartz veining, 95%; sand, as above, 5%. |
1179-1185 | 25 | Chert, as above, 75%; sand, as above, 25%; trace ozokerite? |
1185-1189 | 15 | Sand, as above, 70%;chert, as above, 30%. |
1189-1192 | 5 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, translucent, opalescent with scattered brown translucent oölites, 10%. |
1192-1202 | 60 | Sand, bright, angular, poorly sorted, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, but averaging 0.2mm diameter, 100%. |
1202-1208 | 75 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1207-1214 | 15 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 10%. |
1208-1214 | 65 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1214-1219 | 35 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1219-1224 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1224-1234 | 30 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1234-1250 | 15 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1250-1256 | 25 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
1256-1263 | 10 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
Top of the Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 1263. | ||
1263-1269 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
1269-1275 | 45 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
1275-1281 | Samples missing. | |
1281-1287 | 15 | Sand, bright, angular, 60%; chert, as above, 40%. |
1287-1294 | Samples missing. | |
1294-1299 | 30 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, fairly well sorted, 80%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, with white banded oölites, 20%. |
1299-1304 | 30 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, soft, white, porous, 5%. |
1304-1310 | 40 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 10%. |
1310-1317 | 20 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, soft, white, porous, 5%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 5%. |
1317-1322 | 25 | Sand, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, 50%. |
1322-1328 | 20 | Sand, 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
1328-1331 | 60 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 90%; sand, 10%. |
1331-1337 | 15 | Sand, 60%; chert, as above, 40%. |
1337-1343 | 15 | Sand, 75%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 20%; chert, soft, white, porous, 5%. |
1343-1355 | 12 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 75%; sand, 25%. |
1355-1360 | 40 | Chert, as above, 95%; sand, 5%. |
1360-1363 | 60 | Sand, 50%; chert, white, dense to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%. |
1363-1368 | 3 | Sand, 80%; chert, as above, 20%. |
1368-1374 | 3 | Chert, soft, white, porous, 50%; sand, 40%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
1374-1380 | 45 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 100%. |
1380-1385 | 20 | Chert, as above, 85%; chert, soft, white, porous, 15%. |
1385-1390 | 30 | Chert, white to buff, dense, vitreous, 80%; chert, porous, as above, 20%. |
1390-1395 | 15 | Chert, porous, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 25%. |
1395-1408 | 6 | Chert, porous, as above, 70%; chert, dense, as above, 20%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
1408-1416 | 25 | Chert, dense, as above, 95%; sand, 5%. |
1416-1421 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, with numerous white oölites, faint because they are only slightly more translucent than matrix, 95%; sand, 5%. |
1421-1426 | 10 | Chert, oölitic, as above, 90%; quartzose material, yellow green, 10%. |
1426-1443 | 25 | Chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous, 80%; sand, 10%; chert, soft, white, porous, 10%. |
1443-1448 | 15 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 50%; chert, white, semitranslucent to dense, 30%; chert, porous, as above, 20%. Free white oölites also are soft and porous. |
1448-1455 | 10 | Chert, tan to gray, dense, granular, 90%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%; soft, porous, white, free oölites numerous. |
1455-1460 | 60 | Chert, white to tan, dense to semitranslucent, 95%; chert, soft, white, porous, 5%. |
1460-1465 | 5 | Chert, tan to bluish, semitranslucent, 80%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%; chert, porous, as above, 10%. |
1465-1471 | 2 | Chert, semitranslucent, as above, 85%; chert, porous, as above, 10%; sand, bright, angular, 5%. |
1471-1477 | 1 | Chert, translucent, as above, 75%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 15%; chert, porous, as above, 10%. |
Top Gunter sandstone member of the Van Buren formation, 1478. | ||
1477-1484 | 15 | Sand, poorly sorted, ranging from 0.6 to-0.1 mm diameter, but averaging 0.3 mm diameter (larger grains are rounded, frosted, or secondarily enlarged, smaller grains bright and angular), 85%; chert, porous, as above, 15%. |
1484-1490 | 5 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, porous, as above, including free white porous oölites which are brown at core, 10%. |
1490-1496 | 5 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%; chert, porous, as above, 5%. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 1498. | ||
1496-1508 | 1 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 5%; chert, porous, as above, 5%. |
1508-1515 | Samples missing. | |
1515-1519 | 2 | Sand, as above, 59%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 40%; chert, medium fine, lacy, dolocastic, 1%. |
1519-1524 | 1 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 25%; chert, bluish, translucent, 15%; quartzose material, 10%. |
1524-1542 | 2 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent to semiquartzose, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
1542-1553 | -1 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 90%; sand, 10% |
1553-1558 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 50%; sand, 50%. |
1558-1564 | 1 | Sand and angular fragments, quartz, 70%; chert, bluish, as above, 20%; chert, white, smooth, dense, vitreous, 10%. |
1564-1573 | 1 | Sand and angular fragments, quartz, 70%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 30%. |
1573-1579 | 2 | Sand and angular fragments of crystalline quartz as above, 60%; chert, white, milky, quartzose to drusy, 40%. |
1579-1602 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
1602-1606 | 5 | Sand and angular fragments crystalline, quartz, 40%; chert, medium fine, lacy, dolocastic, 25%; chert, bluish, translucent, 25%; pink feldspar, (?) 10%. |
1606-1611 | 3 | Sand and angular fragments of crystalline quartz, 45%; chert, bluish, translucent, 25%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 15%; feldspar (?), 15%. |
1611-1617 | Samples missing. | |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 1620. | ||
1617-1622 | 6 | Sand and angular fragments of crystalline quartz, 40%; shale, dark brown, spongy, dolocastic, 30%; chert, dark brown, translucent, vitreous to quartzose, 20%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%; much crystalline pyrite. |
1622-1626 | 5 | Shale, spongy, brown, as above, 50%; chert, brown, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 20%; feldspar (?), 5%; quartz fragments, angular, 5%; much spongy pyrite. |
1626-1635 | 1 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, quartzose, 60%; shale, brown, spongy, as above, 20%; quartz fragments, angular, and sand, 20%; much spongy pyrite. |
1635-1640 | 8 | Shale, brown, spongy, 90%; chert, white, quartzose, 10%; much spongy pyrite. |
1640-1645 | 5 | Shale, yellow-brown, porous, spongy, 95%; chert, white, quartzose, 5%. |
1645-1668 | 8 | Shale, brown, coarsely spongy, finely sandy, 100%; much bright, massive pyrite. |
1668-1685 | 12 | Shale, sandy brown, as above, 100%. |
1685-1708 | 15 | Shale, light buff, very sandy, spongy, and aggregates of very fine sand, all less than 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
1708-1721 | 30 | Shale, spongy, and sand aggregates, very fine, as above, 100%. |
1721-1730 | 60 | Shale, spongy, and sand aggregates, very fine, as above, 100%. |
1730-1740 | 40 | Shale, spongy, and sand aggregates, very fine, as above, 100%. |
1740-1760 | 50 | Sand aggregates, very fine, bright, angular, shaly, associated with fine grains of glauconite, 100%. |
1760-1775 | 55 | Sand, light colored aggregates, angular, bright, some- what coarser than previous samples, averaging 0.2 mm diameter and associated with considerable yellow-green to brown glauconite. |
1775-1800 | 35 | Sand, as above, in loose aggregates and free, associated with much glauconite, 100%. |
1800-1806 | 15 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
Top Lamotte sandstone, 180,7. | ||
1806-1810 | 50 | Sand, coarse, poorly sorted, bright, angular, 1.5 mm diameter, 85%; sand, fine, bright, glauconitic, as above, 15%. |
1810-1814 | 75 | Sand, coarse, as above, 100%. |
1814-1818 | 100 | Sand, coarse, as above, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian ? (prob. quartzite), 1831. | ||
1818-1837 | 100 | Sand, coarse, as above, grading into large angular fragments crystalline quartz 2.0 to 3.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
1837-1857 | 100 | Sand, coarse, angular, as above, with arkosic material, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite. | ||
1857-1862 | 100 | Pink granite. |
T. D. |
Prairie Oil and Gas Company No. 9 Brown, SE SW NW sec. 26, T. 34 S., R. 11 E., Chautauqua County, Kansas. No. 4, cross section A-A' (Fig. 11).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 2208. | ||
2208-2218 | 25 | Chert, cream, coarsely dolocastic, 95%; white, banded, 5%. |
2218-2222 | 12 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 90%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
2222-2228 | 20 | Chert, cream to brown, finely dolocastic, spongy, 95%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 51%. |
2228-2234 | 10 | Chert, lacy dolocastic, semiquartzose, 95%; chert, dark brown, quartzose, 5%. |
2234-2240 | 2 | Sand, bright, angular, well sorted, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 65%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%. |
2240-2249 | 18 | Chert, light tan, very quartzose, with scattered medium coarse dolocasts, 100%. |
2249-2256 | 4 | Chert, tan, quartzose, as above, 75%; sand, poorly sorted, fine, bright, angular, 25%. |
2256-2260 | 24 | Chert, tan, translucent, with faint translucent brown to bluish oölites, 75%; chert, tan, finely dolocastic, spongy, 25%. |
2260-2265 | 4 | Chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, smooth, 10%; sand and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 5%. |
2265-2270 | 4 | Shale, spongy, dolocastic, brown, 50%; chert, brown, translucent, opalescent, 20%; shale, brown, 15%; chert, white and tan, dense, mottled, 15%. |
2270-2277 | 20 | Chert, cream, dense, with brown translucent oölites, 80%; chert, buff, coarsely dolocastic, spongy, 10%; chert, brown, translucent, as above, 10%. |
2277-2284 | 4 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, 75%; chert, tan to bluish, translucent, 25%. |
2284-2290 | 8 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, opalescent, containing numerous translucent oölites, 85%; sand and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 15%. |
2290-2296 | Samples missing. | |
2296-2302 | 24 | Chert, brown, semitranslucent, oölitic, 55%; sand, fine (0.2 mm diameter), bright, angular, 20%; chert, soft, porous to quartzose, dolocastic, 15%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 10%; much spongy pyrite. |
2302-2308 | Samples missing. | |
2308-2315 | 8 | Chert, white to buff, dense, with blue to brown translucent oölites, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2315-2320 | 10 | Chert, white to bluish, translucent, 65%; chert, brown, coarsely dolocastic, 25%; shale (cavings?), dark brown, 10%. |
2320-2326 | 22 | Chert, bluish, as above, 75%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%. |
2326-2334 | 14 | Chert, light tan to brown, translucent, with faint translucent brown oölites, 60%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 25%); sand, medium coarse, rounded, frosted, 10%; shale, green to brown pyritiferous, 5%; much dark spongy pyrite. |
2334-2341 | 10 | Chert, white, soft, rough, 50%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 25%; chert, oölitic, as above, and free tan oölites coated with drusy quartz. |
2341-2349 | 4 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, with small white oölites, 35%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 20%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 20%; sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, 15%; chert, brown, translucent, and free brown oölites, 10%. |
2349-2355 | 4 | Sand, coarse (0.8 to O.1 mm diameter), poorly sorted, rounded, frosted, 75%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, with some included sand grains, 25%. |
2355-2360 | 10 | Chert, white, with numerous included sand grains, 65%; sand, fine, bright, angular, secondarily enlarged, 30%; chert, brown, porous, dolocastic, 5%. |
2360-2368 | 28 | Chert, blue to white, semitranslucent, 75%; sand, well sorted, bright, angular, free and in aggregates, 25%. |
2368-2376 | 8 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 40%; chert, white, rough, 10%. |
2376-2383 | 18 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 50%; drusy quartz, brown, 25%; chert, cream to brown, quartzose, finely dolocastic, 25%. |
2383-2393 | 6 | Sand, 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, mostly bright and angular but larger grains rounded, frosted, 75%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 15%; chert, white, rough, 5% (with scattered large dolocasts); chert, blue, translucent, 5%. |
2393-2399 | 5 | Sand, as above, 55%; sandstone, shaly, laminated, fine, 25%; chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 20%. |
2399-2407 | 22 | Sand and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 50%; chert, brown, quartzose, very finely dolocastic, 25%; chert, white to tan, translucent, 25%. |
2407-2413 | 18 | Sand and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 40% chert, white, dense, slightly rough, 35%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 15%; drusy, quartz, tan, 10%. |
2413-2419 | 20 | Chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, 80%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 15%; shale, greenish-gray, 5%. |
2419-2427 | 16 | Chert, white to buff, dense, rough, associated with much spongy and crystalline pyrite. |
2427-2434 | 26 | Chert, cream, dense, vitreous, 80%; chert, cream, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 15%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%; much pyrite. |
2434-2447 | 64 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, well sorted, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, and with a frosty look due to secondary quartz enlargement, 100%. |
2447-2450 | 12 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, cream, dense, vitreous, 20%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
2450-2456 | 12 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, 25%; quartz, crystalline and milky, angular fragments, 25%. |
2456-2459 | 12 | Chert, cream, dense, dull, with numerous dark brown, translucent to quartzose oölites and free brown oölites, 50clt; sand, as above, 35%; quartz, crystalline, large fragments, 15%; much spongy pyrite. |
2459-2465 | 6 | Chert, oölitic, as above, 40%; sand, as above, 40%; quartz, crystalline, as above, 20%; much spongy pyrite. |
2465-2472 | 14 | Chert, cream, dense, rough, 50%; quartz, crystalline and milky, angular fragments, 50%; much spongy pyrite. |
2472-2479 | 38 | Chert, tan to brown, dense, rough, 90%; quartz, crystalline, as above, 10%. |
2479-2484 | 6 | Chert, dense, as above, 85%; sand, bright, angular, and angular fragments crystalline quartz, 15%. |
2484-2493 | 16 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, showing some banding, 40%; sand and quartz, as above, 30%; chert, dense, as above, 20%; chert, brown, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%. |
2493-2499 | 36 | Chert, cream, dense, rough 50%; chert, bluish white, translucent, 40%; sand and quartz, as above, 10%. |
2499-2507 | 22 | Chert, cream, dense, rough, 45%; chert, cream, spongy, finely dolocastic, 25%; chert, bluish-white to tan, translucent, 20%; chert, brown, translucent, with scattered medium fine dolocasts, 10%. |
2507-2514 | 16 | Chert, tan, semitranslucent, with darker brown, translucent oölites, 40%; sand, fine, well-sorted, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 35%; chert, tan, finely dolocastic, appears to be sandy and laminated with a brown shale, 25%. |
2514-2521 | 26 | Chert, brown, dense, with numerous brown oölites and free brown oölites, 90%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
2521-2523 | 30 | Chert, oölitic, as above, 90%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 10%. |
2523-2529 | 26 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, vitreous to quartzose, some fragments containing numerous brown oölites, 80%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 20%. |
2529-2535 | 26 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, 60%; chert, brown, translucent, semiquartzose, 20%; chert, rough, soft, dolocastic, 10(llc; chert, white, dense, with a rough, hackly surface, 10%. |
2535-2538 | Samples missing. | |
2538-2541 | 28 | Chert, buff to gray, quartzose, finely dolocastic, 50%; chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, 50%. |
2541-2548 | 26 | Chert, cream, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous to quartzose, 100%. |
2548-2554 | 38 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 50%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 50%. |
2554-2561 | 20 | Chert, as above, 75%; quartz, crystalline, 25%. |
2561-2572 | 4 | Chert, as above, 75%; sand and quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 25%. |
2572-2578 | 8 | Chert, as above, 55%; chert, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 20%; sand and quartz as above, 15%; shale, gray to greenish (caved from higher beds?), 10%. |
2577-2587 | 2 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, 50%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 50%. |
2587-2593 | 4 | Chert, brown, semitranslucent, with faint, darker brown, translucent oölites, 75%; chert, white, dense to translucent, 25%; |
2593-2600 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, 40%; chert, white, very finely dolocastic, 35%; chert, tan to brown, translucent, 25%. |
2600-2608 | 24 | Chert, tan to blue, semitranslucent, 40%; chert, brown, semitranslucent, with large brown oölites and free brown oölites, 35%; chert, white, dense, rough, 15%; sand, white to gray and brown aggregates, very fine, 10%. |
2608-2615 | 10 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, with large brown, translucent oölites ringed with white dense chert, 75%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 25%. |
2615-2622 | 8 | Chert, cream, finely dolocastic, 50%; chert, tan to brown, semitranslucent, 25%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 25%. |
2622-2629 | 5 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, banded, 45%; chert, white, rough, 25%; chert, brown, as above, 25%; sand, bright, angular, and quartz, angular fragments, crystalline, 5%. |
2629-2635 | Samples missing. | |
2635-2641 | 16 | Chert, brown, semitranslucent, with numerous brown translucent oölites ringed with white dense chert, 70%; sand and quartz, as above, 30%; much finely crystalline pyrite. |
2641-2649 | Samples missing. | |
2649-2655 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous to rough, 75%; sand and quartz, as above, 25%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 2655. | ||
2655-2662 | 20 | Chert, bluish-white to tan, semitranslucent, finely oölitic, 70%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.2mm diameter (many grains irregular to flaky in shape), 30%. |
2662-2669 | Samples missing. | |
2669-2676 | 1 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
2676-2682 | 4 | Sand as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, rough, 15%; chert, white to tan, dense, mottled, 10%. |
2682-2688 | 2 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 20%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
2688-2694 | 20 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2694-2701 | 2 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, as above, 10%. |
2701-2707 | 8 | Sand, as above, 90% chert, white, semitranslucent, 10%. |
2707-2733 | 20 | Sand,coarser than previous samples (grains range from 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter and fragments of angular quartz measure 1.0 mm plus; larger grains are rounded and frosted), 90%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 10%. |
2733-2746 | 8 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, with gray, dense to translucent oölites, 10%. |
2746-2754 | 16 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 50%. |
2754-2767 | 6 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 25%. |
2767-2780 | 10 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 10%. |
2780-2787 | 6 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 25%; drusy quartz, 25%. |
2787-2793 | 6 | Sand, ranging from 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter (grains 0.2 mm or less are bright and angular; larger grains rounded, frosted), 90%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, 10%; much spongy pyrite. |
2793-2800 | 46 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
2800-2807 | 34 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
2807-2820 | Samples missing. | |
Top Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 2820. | ||
2820-2827 | 12 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous to quartzose, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2827-2841 | 24 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, 100%; trace angular fragments of crystalline quartz. |
2841-2847 | 10 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
2847-2852 | 48 | Chert, white, dense, smooth, vitreous, with quartz veinings, 50%; quartz, clear, drusy, 35%; sand, fine, bright, angular, secondarily enlarged, 15%. |
2852-2861 | 84 | Chert, white, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2861-2870 | 2 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2870-2877 | 4 | Sand, poorly sorted, ranging from 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter (larger grains are rounded, frosted; smaller grains are bright, angular), 75%; chert, bluish-white to tan, semitranslucent, 25%. |
2877-2885 | 4 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous to quartzose, 85%; sand, as above, 15%. |
2885-2892 | 10 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2892-2917 | 22 | Chert, as above, 90%.,; sand, as above, 10%. |
2917-2935 | 10 | Chert, cream, dense, smooth to rough, 65%; quartzose material, 25%; sand, as above, 10%. |
2935-2939 | Samples missing. | |
Top Gunter sandstone member of the Van Buren formation, 2959. | ||
2939-2942 | 20 | Chert, as above, 65%; sand (larger grains up to 1.0 mm diameter are rounded, frosted; smaller grains average 0.2 mm diameter, are bright, angular), 35%; trace mica. |
2942-2947 | 10 | Chert, cream to tan, dense to semitranslucent, 75% sand, as above, 25%. |
2947-2956 | 30 | Chert, as above, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 2955. | ||
2956-2961 | 12 | Chert, buff, dense, smooth to slightly rough, 70%; sand, fine, bright, angular, and drusy quartz, 30%. |
2961-2970 | 4 | Sand and drusy quartz, as above, 50%; chert, as above, |
50%. | ||
Top Bonneterre (?) dolomite, 2970. | ||
2970-2991 | 8 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, and drusy quartz, (grains are irregular in shape, some flaky and some needle-like, and range from 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter), 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
2991-3002 | 4 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, dull, with white oölites, 10%. |
3002-3018 | 2 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, semiquartzose, 10%. |
3018-3023 | 16 | Sand, as above, 80%; shale, greenish-gray, 20%. |
3023-3044 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3044-3050 | 8 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, dark gray, drusy, 30%; chert, white, dense, semiquartzose, 20%. |
3050-3059 | Samples missing. | |
Top Lamotte sandstone, 3059. | ||
3059-3064 | 54 | Sand, as above, 90%; quartz, drusy, gray, as above, 10%. |
3064-3079 | Samples missing. | |
3079-3085 | 64 | Sand, fine, in well indurated aggregates, associated with finely crystalline pyrite, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 3085. | ||
3085-3091 | 100 | Pink granite. |
T. D. |
D. R. Lauck No, 1 McLean, SW cor. SE sec. 1, T. 27 S., R. 1 W., Sedgwick County, Kansas. No. 7, cross section A-A' (Fig. 11).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3601. | ||
3601-3607 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3607-3617 | 18 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 85%; sand, angular, fine, bright, 15%. |
3617-3623 | 25 | Chert, as above, 90%; sand, angular, fine, bright, 10%. |
3623-3630 | 10 | Simpson shale, caved, 80%; chert, white, dense, 10%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3630-3636 | 50 | Simpson shale, caved, 90%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%; sand, bright, angular, 5%. |
3636-3667 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3667-3679 | 10 | Chert, tan to brown, translucent, oölitic, 70%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 15%; pyrite, massive, 15%. |
3679-3697 | Samples missing. | |
3697-3705 | 12 | Chert, white, dense, with translucent oölites, 85%; chert, tan, as above, 15%. |
3705-3713 | 5 | Pyrite, bright, spongy, 50%; chert, tan, quartzose, 30%; chert, white, dense, oölitic, as above, 20%. |
3713-3719 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3719-3725 | 5 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 90%; chert, tan, quartzose, 5%; pyrite, spongy, 5% |
3725-3733 | 3 | Chert, soft, white, crumbly, tripolitic, 85%; quartz, drusy, light tan, 15%. |
3733-3743 | 3 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 75%; chert, light tan, dense, vitreous, 15%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 10%. |
3743-3750 | 1 | Sand, poorly sorted, secondarily coated, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
3750-3755 | 10 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 80%; sand, bright, angular, medium fine, 20%. |
3755-3769 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3768-3773 | 5 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 55%; sand, as above, 40%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
3773-3778 | 3 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 65%; sand, as above, 30%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
3778-3783 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 50%; chert, bluish, translucent, 30%; sand, as above, 20%. |
3783-3786 | 6 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 85%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 15%. |
3786-3791 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3791-3798 | 20 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 100%. |
3798-3803 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3803-3809 | 15 | Sand, well sorted, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 80%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%. |
3809-3814 | 5 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3814-3820 | 20 | Chert, white, semitranslucent, 100%. |
3820-3826 | 5 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous 65%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 25%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%. |
3826-3832 | 5 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 60%; chert, buff, dense, vitreous, 15%; sand, as above, 15%; chert, dolocastic, 10%. |
3832-3836 | 25 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 95%; chert, soft, white, tripolitic, 5%. |
3836-3841 | 33 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 75%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 15%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
3841-3851 | 40 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 85%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 10%; sand, as above, 5%. |
3851-3855 | 10 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 65%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 25%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3855-3861 | 15 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 60%; sand, as above, 25% chert, tripolitic, as above, 15%. |
3861-3866 | 37 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 85%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 15%. |
3866-3871 | 3 | Chert, white, as above, 85%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 15%. |
3871-3877 | 45 | Chert, white, dense, with numerous white and brown oölites and white oölites free in sample, 85%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 10%; chert, translucent, tan, 5%. |
3877-3882 | 43 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, with scattered brown oölites, 95%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 5%. |
3882-3890 | 30 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 90%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 10%. |
3890-3897 | 20 | Chert, as above, containing brown oölites and white coated brown oölites free in the sample, 90%; chert, tripolitic, as above, 10%. |
3897-3907 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, rough, 100%. |
3907-3911 | 20 | Chert, white, dense, 80% chert, light tan, translucent, semiquartzose, 20%. |
3911-3921 | 9 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 85%; chert, tan, as above, 10%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 5%. |
3921-3926 | 10 | Chert, white, as above, 80%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 15%; chert, dolocastic, 5%. |
3926-3933 | 25 | Chert, white, as above, 92%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 5%; chert, very finely dolocastic, 3%. |
3933-3938 | 15 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, with scattered brown oölites, 60%; chert, light tan, translucent, 15%; sand, as above, 15%; chert, white, soft, crumbly, tripolitic, 10%. |
3938-3943 | 20 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 85%; chert, tripolitic, 15%. |
3943-3953 | 4 | Chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 50%; sand, as above, 30%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%. |
3953-3959 | 20 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, 95%; chert, tripolitic, 5%. |
3959-3964 | 25 | Chert, tan, as above, 70%; sand, medium coarse, bright, angular, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3964-3974 | 5 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 95%; chert, tan, as above, 5%. |
3974-3985 | 2 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 40%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 30%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 20%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%. |
(Residues 3985-4703 T.D. are estimated from examination of original samples because samples are too small to make residues). | ||
3985-3992 | 25 | Chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 100%. |
3992-3997 | 10 | Chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 75%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.4 mm diameter, with few angular fragments crystalline quartz, 25%. |
3997-4002 | 10 | Chert, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
4002-4008 | 1 | Chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, 100%. |
4008-4013 | 1 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, 100%. |
4013-4019 | 20 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 100%. |
4018-4025 | 6 | Chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, vitreous, 100%. |
4025-4030 | Sample not usable. | |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 4030. | ||
4030-4035 | 1 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 70%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 30%. |
4035-4047 | 20 | Sand, bright, angular, 0.2 mm diameter, 80%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%. |
4047-4056 | 5 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, as above, 20%. |
4056-4060 | 1 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4060-4065 | 10 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 30%. |
4065-4070 | 5 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense to bluish, translucent, 20%. |
4070-4076 | Samples missing. | |
4076-4083 | 25 | Chert, blue, translucent, 100%. |
4083-4097 | 1 | Chert, as above, 100%. |
4097-4103 | 15 | Sand, bright, angular, 0.6 to 0.1 mm diameter, with angular fragments crystalline quartz, 100%. |
4103-4109 | 25 | Sand, bright, angular, 1.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, with much angular crystalline quartz and aggregates of quartz crystals (quartz faces on sand indicate secondary enlargement), 100%. |
4109-4119 | 10 | Sand, bright, angular, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, averaging 0.4 mm diameter, 100%; no crystalline quartz. |
4119-4124 | 1 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 60%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 40%. |
4124-4128 | Samples missing. | |
4128-4135 | 10 | Chert, as above, 60%; sand as above. 40%. |
4135-4138 | 1 | Chert, as above, 60%; sand, as above, 40%. |
4138-4141 | 1 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, 100%. |
4141-4150 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4150-4158 | 1 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4158-4166 | 10 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, soft, tripolitic, 20%. |
4166-4186 | 1 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4186-4203 | 10 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging less than 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
4203-4213 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4213-4224 | 25 | Sand, as above, with few coarse grains and flecks green shale, 100%. |
4224-4229 | 20 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
4229-4235 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4235-4243 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4243-4248 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
Top Gasconade-Van Buren sequence, 4248. | ||
4248-4270 | 40 | Chert, white, dense, semiquartzose, 60%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 40%. |
4270-4282 | Samples missing. | |
4282-4289 | 15 | Chert, white, dense, semiquartzose, 75%; sand, as above, with flecks black mica, 20%; chert, soft, white, tripolitic, 5%. |
4289-4298 | 25 | Chert, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
4298-4310 | 25 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
Top basal sand (Gunter?), 4310. | ||
4310-4343 | 100 | Sand, bright, angular, fairly well sorted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 100%. |
4343-4350 | 100 | Sand, coarser, with grains 1.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
4350-4357 | 100 | Sand, coarser, with grains 2.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
4357-4363 | 100 | Sand, as above, 50%; shale, green (may be cave), 50%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks, 4363. | ||
4363-4370 | Samples missing. | |
4370-4703 | Quartzite and schist. | |
T. D. |
Babcock Oil Company No. 1 Copeman, S2 S2 SE sec. 7, T. 10 S., R. 2 W., Ottawa County, Kansas. No. 26, cross sections C-C', D-D', and H-H' (Figs. 11 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3723. | ||
3723-3727 | 10 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 75%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 20%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%; trace spongy pyrite. |
3727-3729 | 17 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, 80%; quartz, drusy, gray, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
3729-3730 | 17 | Chert, white, dense, rough, 50%; sand, as above, 45%; chert, finely dolocastic, porous, 5%; trace brown oölites in chert. |
3730-3740 | 8 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 30%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
3740-3744 | 9 | Chert, light tan to brown, semitranslucent, quartzose, 50%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 40%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3744-3747 | 11 | Chert, white, dense, rough, with hackly fracture, 100%. |
3747-3750 | 17 | Chert, as above, with numerous white soft oölites which are brown and translucent at core, 100%. |
3750-3767 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3767-3777 | 20 | Chert, white, as above, 70%; sand grains, fine, bright, angular, 30%; trace fine pyrite crystals. |
3777-3790 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3790-3795 | 40 | Chert, blue to brown, translucent, opalescent, 100%. |
3785-3800 | 80 | Chert, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%. |
3800-3815 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3815-3818 | 10 | Chert, bluish, translucent, vitreous, 90%; sand, bright, angular, 10%. |
3818-3845 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 3845. | ||
3845-3850 | 20 | Chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3850-3860 | 10 | Chert, as above, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
3860-3868 | 10 | Chert, as above, 60%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 40%. |
3868-3876 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3880-3892 | 10 | Chert, as above, 60%; sand, as above, 40%. |
3892-3900 | 15 | Sand, 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter, mostly bright, angular but some larger grains rounded, frosted, 100%; trace waxy, olive drab shale. |
3900-3905 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3905-3916 | 35 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3916-3925 | 18 | Sand, as above, 50%; drusy?, quartz, 30%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 20%. |
3925-3934 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3934-3962 | 10 | Sand, as above, 70%; quartz, drusy?, 30%. |
3962-3967 | 10 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3967-3977 | 65 | Sand, as above, 100%; some grains have pinkish color. |
3977-3991 | 55 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3992-3997 | 65 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3997-4001 1/2 | 85 | Sand, as above, with trace weathered feldspar, 100% |
4001 1/2-4009 | 90 | Sand, arkosic, fine, bright, angular, grains averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian rocks, 4009? | ||
4009-4021 | Samples missing. | |
4021-4114 | 100 | Sand, as above, 75%; feldspar, weathered, 25%; trace mica flakes and black mineral which may be hornblende. Some of sand and feldspar occurs in loose aggregates. |
T. D. 4135 |
Shell Petroleum Corporation and Olson Drilling Company No. 7 Blake, NE cor. SW sec. 23, T. 23 S., R. 4 W., Reno County, Kansas. No. 8, cross section A-A' (Fig. 11).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3815. | ||
3815-3825 | 7 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, with drusy, secondary quartz enlargement, 70%; chert, buff, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 30%. |
3825-3835 | 4 | Sand, free, as above, 45%; sand grain aggregates, well indurated, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3835-3840 | 7 | Sand, as above, 70%; tan, semitranslucent, semi- quartzose, 20%; chert, white, finely dolocastic, semiquartzose, 10%. |
3840-3845 | 5 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; chert, tan, semiquartzose, as above, 10%. |
3845-3850 | 14 | Quartz, drusy, tan, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%; sand, as above, with much spongy pyrite, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3850-3855 | 13 | Shale, buff, finely dolocastic, porous, 50%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 15%; quartz, drusy, tan, 15%. |
3855-3860 | 7 | Shale, (cavings?), dolocastic, white, 50%; shale, brown, finely dolocastic, porous, 25%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous 20%; sand aggregates, well indurated, 5%. |
3860-3865 | 6 | Shale, white, dolocastic, as above, 50%; sand, sub- rounded, fine, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 45%; chert, blue, translucent, quartzose, 5%. |
3865-3870 | 3 | Shale, dolocastic, white, as above, 75%; sand, as above, free and in aggregates, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3870-3880 | 5 | Sand, as above, free, 70%; shale, brown, porous, finely dolocastic, 30% |
3880-3890 | 21 | Chert, blue to white, translucent, vitreous, 30%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 30%; chert, white, rough, dense, 30%; shale, brown (cavings?), 10%. |
3890-3900 | 18 | Sand, subrounded to angular, well sorted, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 60%; chert, white to buff, semitranslucent, vitreous, 25%; chert, tan, quartzose, as above, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%. |
3900-3910 | 15 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 20%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 15%; shale, brown, porous (caved from higher beds?), 15%. |
3910-3920 | 53 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, vitreous, with veinings of crystalline quartz, 90%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 10%. |
3920-3930 | 37 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 100%. |
3930-3960 | 19 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered oölites, large brown and small white, translucent, 806%; chert, white, coarse and finely dolocastic, quartzose, 20%. |
3960-3970 | 25 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 80%; quartz, crystalline and milky, angular fragments, 20%. |
3970-4000 | 12 | Chert, bluish, as above, with scattered large dolocasts, 60%; quartz, angular fragments, as above, 20%; chert, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, white, 10%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%. |
4000-4010 | 31 | Chert, bluish,,as above, 40%; chert, dolocastic as above, 30%; chert, white, dense porcelaneous, 20%; quartz,, angular fragments, as above, 10%. |
4010-4030 | 21 | Chert, bluish, as above, 35%; chert, tan, translucent, fairly oölitic, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; chert, porcelaneous, 10%; quartz, angular fragments, 5%. |
4030-4040 | 27 | Chert, bluish, as above, 95%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
4040-4060 | 14 | Chert, bluish, as above, 100%. |
4060-4070 | 18 | Chert, white to gray, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%; chert, tan, quartzose, 40%; quartz, milky and crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
4070-4090 | 13 | Chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 70%; quartz, drusy, tan, 20%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%. |
4090-4100 | 10 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 50%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; chert, tan, quartzose, as above, 15%; chert, tan, translucent, 10%; quartz, crystalline and milky, angular fragments, 5%. |
4100-4130 | 9 | Quartz, drusy, tan to dark brown, 85%; chert, bluish, as above, 15%. |
4130-4140 | 7 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 70%; chert, bluish, as above, 30%. |
4140-4150 | 14 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 40%; chert, white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 30%; chert, blue to tan, faintly oölitic, translucent, 30%. |
4150-4160 | 14 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 40%; quartz, drusy, brown, 30%; chert, white, as above, 20%; sand, coarse, round, frosted, and fine, bright, angular, 10%. |
4160-4170 | 16 | Chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 75%; quartz, drusy, brown, 15%; chert, white, fine-grained, dense, 10%. |
4170-4200 | 11 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, faintly oölitic, 40%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
4200-4220 | 13 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 30%; chert, bluish, as above, 30%. |
4220-4230 | 10 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, vitreous, with scattered large brown oölites; 50%; chert, white, dense, rough to porcelaneous, 30%; sand, coarse, rounded, pitted grains and fine bright angular sand, 20%. |
4230-4240 | 13 | Chert, white to tan, quartzose, 70%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; chert, brown, quartzose, with scattered faint brown oölites, 10%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 4240. | ||
4240-4260 | 14 | Sand, extremely angular, 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter (may be angular fragments crystalline quartz), 50%; chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered faint brown oölites, 50%. |
4260-4270 | 10 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white to bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; quartz, drusy, tan, 20%; chert, coarsely dolocastic, 10%. |
4270-4280 | 7 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, bluish, as above, 25%; quartz, drusy, tan, 20%; chert, white, tripolitic, as above, 5%. |
4280-4300 | 10 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 25%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
4300-4320 | 11 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 15%. |
4320-4330 | 13 | Sand, as above, 45%; chert, brown, quartzose, 30%; chert, bluish, as above, 25%. |
4330-4340 | 10 | Chert, bluish, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, tan, quartzose, 10%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
4340-4370 | 5 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, bluish, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, white to tan, 10%. |
4370-4380 | 2 | Sand, as above, 55%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 25%; chert, white, quartzose, 20%. |
4380-4390 | 3 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 25%. |
4390-4400 | Samples missing. | |
4400-4420 | 4 | Chert, white, dense, rough, 25%; chert, white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 25%; chert, white, quartzose, and quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 25%; sand, as above, 25%. |
4420-4430 | 13 | Sand, rounded to subrounded, 0.5 mm diameter, free and in clusters, 100%. |
4430-4450 | 12 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%. |
Top basal sand (Roubidoux?), 4450. | ||
4450-4460 | 42 | Sand, bright, angular (secondarily enlarged?), fairly well sorted, averaging 0.5mm diameter, 100%. |
4460-4480 | 78 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4480-4490 | 57 | Sand, as above, with trace grains 2.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
4490-4510 | Cement. | |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 4498. | ||
4510-4560 | Pink granite. | |
T. D. is 4709. |
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation No. 9 Hartle, SW NE SW NW sec. 15, T. 20 S., R. 9 W., Rice County, Kansas, No. 9, cross sections A-A, and H-H' (Figs. 11 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3240. | ||
3240-3270 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3270-3280 | 33 | Chert, white, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 50%; chert, tan, translucent, vitreous, 50%. |
3280-3290 | 17 | Chert, tan, as above, 50%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%; chert, lacy, dolocastic, 20%; sand, subrounded, ranging from 0.4 to 0.1 mm diameter, 10%. |
3290-3300 | 25 | Chert, bluish-white, translucent, vitreous, 70%; chert, tan, as above, 20%; sand, subrounded, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 10%. |
3300-3310 | 33 | Chert, blue to brown, translucent, vitreous, 9,0%; quartz, drusy, white to brown, 10%. |
3310-3320 | 33 | Chert, blue to brown, as above, 85%,; sand, subrounded, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 5%; quartz, drusy, white to brown, 5%; chert, soft, white, finely dolocastic, 5%. |
3320-3340 | 25 | Chert, blue to brown, as above, 75%; quartz, drusy, brown, (oöcasts?), 25%. |
3340-3350 | 17 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, with scattered faint brown oölites, 100%. |
3350-3370 | 22 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 90%; chert, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, 10%. |
3370-3380 | Samples missing. | |
3380-3390 | 33 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 60%; chert, white, soft, finely dolocastic, 40%. |
3390-3400 | 20 | Chert, white, dense, rough, 50%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 20%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3400-3410 | 25 | Chert, white to blue, semitranslucent, vitreous, 60%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 40%. |
3410-3420 | 33 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 50%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, 40%; chert, white, finely porous, 10%. |
3420-3430 | 40 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 30%. |
3430-3440 | 50 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 90%; chert, very finely dolocastic, quartzose, 10%. |
3440-3450 | 22 | Chert, white to buff, semitranslucent, 70%; chert, white, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, 30%. |
3450-3455 | No sample. | |
3455-3460 | 12 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 55%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 25%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 20%. |
3460-3490 | Samples missing. | |
3490-3495 | 2 | Sand, as above, 90%; drusy, brown, quartz, 10%. |
3495-3500 | 18 | Chert, white to buff, semitranslucent, 80%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%. |
3500-3510 | 20 | Chert, white, translucent, with numerous brown oölites 0.3 mm diameter, 100%. |
3510-3520 | 9 | Chert, blue, translucent, opalescent, 55%; quartz, drusy, brown, 45%. |
3520-3525 | Samples missing. | |
3525-3530 | 18 | Chert, blue, as above, 80%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%. |
3530-3535 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3535-3540 | 10 | Chert, blue, as above, 80%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%. |
3545-3555 | 33 | Chert, blue,.as above, 50%; quartz, drusy, brown, 50%. |
3555-3565 | Samples missing. | |
3565-3570 | 18 | Chert, blue to white, semitranslucent to translucent, 70%; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 20%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%. |
3570-3576 | 25 | Chert, white, soft, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 50%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%. |
3576-3610 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3610-3615 | 14 | Sand, bright, angular, 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, 75%; chert, blue, translucent, 25%. |
3615-3635 | 14 | Chert, blue, translucent, with waxy luster, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
3635-3650 | 27 | Chert, blue, as above, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 3650. | ||
3650-3660 | 7 | Sand grains, subrounded, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 50%; chert, blue, as above, 50%; flecks bright green shale common. |
3660-3665 | 7 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, blue, as above, 25%. |
3665-3680 | 10 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, blue, as above, 40% |
3680-3685 | 6 | Chert, white to blue, semitranslucent, vitreous, 70%; sand, as above, 30%; numerous flecks green waxy shale. |
3685-3690 | 8 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, as above, 50%. |
3690-3695 | 9 | Sand, bright, angular to subrounded, ranging from 0.8 to 0.1 mm diameter, associated with flecks green shale, 70%; chert, light tan, translucent, quartzose, 30%. |
3695-3705 | 8 | Chert, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
3705-3715 | 6 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, as above, 25%. |
3715-3735 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3735-3740 | 4 | Sand, bright, angular, well-sorted, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 100%. |
3740-3750 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3750-3755 | 9 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3755-3760 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3760-3770 | 7 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 25%. |
3770-3775 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3775-3780 | 11 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3780-3785 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
Top basal sand (Roubidoux?), 3785. | ||
3785-3790 | 55 | Sand, angular to subrounded, 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
3790-3800 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3800-3810 | 64 | Sand angular to subrounded, averaging 0.4mm diameter. |
3810-3815 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 3815. | ||
3815-3855 | Pink granite, somewhat weathered in appearance. | |
3855-3905 | Fresh granite. | |
T. D. |
The Texas Company No. 4 Dees, SE cor. NW sec. 23, T. 17 S., R. 9 W., Ellsworth County, Kansas. No. 18, cross sections B-B' and H-H' (Figs. 10 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3208. | ||
3208-3220 | 12 | Sand, ranging from rounded grains 2.0 mm diameter to bright, angular grains 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; chert, tan, dense, with scattered light tan oölites, 50%. |
3220-3225 | 8 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 75%; sand grains, subrounded, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 25%. |
3225-3235 | 17 | Sand, as above, 70%; quartz, drusy, brown, 30%. |
3235-3260 | 28 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%; chert, tan to blue, translucent, vitreous, 10%; chert, white, soft, finely dolocastic, 5%. |
3260-3272 | Samples missing. | |
3272-3282 | 21 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
3282-3292 | 5 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 100%. |
3292-3300 | 21 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered large tan opaque oölites and few free oölites, 50%; sand, ranging from rounded, frosted grains 0.5 mm diameter to bright, subangular grains 0.1 mm diameter, 25%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%/,; chert, finely dolocastic, 5%. |
3300-3308 | 10 | Quartz, drusy, brown, with numerous tan oölites coated with drusy quartz and oöcasts lined with drusy quartz, 100%. |
3308-3318 | 15 | Chert, blue to tan, dense, vitreous, with numerous brown and white oölites, coated with drusy quartz, 70%; sand, as above, 30%. |
3318-3326 | 9 | Quartz, drusy, brown, as above, 50%.; sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 50%. |
3326-3340 | 19 | Chert, blue to tan, dense, vitreous, 50%; chert, white, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 30%; sand, as above, 20%. |
3340-3348 | 10 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 65%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
3348-3362 | 25 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 50%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 25%. |
3362-3378 | 8 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3375-3383 | 18 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 75%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%; sand, as above, 5%. |
3383-3388 | 12 | Chert, white to buff, dense, porcelaneous, with scattered included sand grains, 55%; sand, as above, 25%; quartz, drusy, white, 20%. |
3388-3395 | 18 | Chert, white to buff, dense, vitreous, 50%; sand, as above, 25%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%; quartz, drusy, white, 10%; chert, dolocastic, 5%. |
3395-3405 | 4 | Chert, white, dense to tan, translucent, vitreous, 40%; chert, white, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 20%; sand, fine, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, white to tan, 20%. |
3405-3407 | Samples missing. | |
3407-3419 | 1 | Sand, as above, 50%; quartz, drusy, brown, 25%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 25%. |
3417-3435 | 29 | Chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, with brown opaque oölites, 90%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3435-3443 | 8 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, oölitic, as above, and drusy, free oölites coated with drusy quartz, 40%. |
3442-3455 | 62 | Chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, 100%. |
3455-3468 | 13 | Quartz, drusy, brown, 45%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, with included sand grains, 45%; sand, as above, 10%. |
3468-3475 | 9 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered included sand grains broken across the grain, 30%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%. |
3475-3517 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3517-3525 | 14 | Quartz, drusy, 100%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 3525. | ||
3525-3533 | 7 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, but with few coarse, rounded, frosted grains 1.0 mm diameter, 50%; chert, white, dense to tan, translucent, vitreous, 40%; quartz, drusy, 10%. |
3533-3545 | 6 | Sand, as above, 50,0/t; chert, blue to tan, translucent, semiquartzose, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3545-3565 | 10 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, blue to tan, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3565-3580 | 10 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, blue to tan, as above, 15%. |
3580-3600 | 8 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 30%. |
3600-3634 | 6 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, tan, as above, 10%. |
3634-3657 | 2 | Sand, with angular to subrounded, pitted grains up to 1.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
3657-3670 | 6 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 50%; sand, fine, bright, angular (0.2 mm diameter), 50%; terminated quartz crystals common. |
Top basal sand (Roubidoux ?), 3670. | ||
3670-3682 | 12 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 100%. |
3682-3710 | 65 | Sand, as above, but with few rounded, frosted and pitted grains 1.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
3710-3715 | Samples missing. | |
3715-3733 | 58 | Sand, free, as above, 90%; sand grains, coarse, in aggregates, 10%. |
3733-3748 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
3748-3758 | 95 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3758-3772 | 89 | Sand, as above, with the addition of some arkosic material, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian (?) quartzite, 3772. | ||
3772-3795 | 100 | Sand, coarse, as above, 75%; feldspar, weathered, 25%. |
3795-3810 | 100 | Quartz, angular fragments, up to 3.0 mm diameter, 100%; traces mica and much weathered feldspar. |
3810-3845 | 100 | Sand, finer, bright, angular, ranging from 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, and with small amount arkosic material, 100%. |
3845-3915 | 100 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 75%; arkosic material, 25%. |
3915-3925 | 100 | Sand, as above, but with coarse grains up to 2.0 mm diameter, 75%; arkosic material, 25%. |
3925-3965 | 100 | Quartzite or granite, angular fragments. |
3965-4097 | Pink granite (?). | |
T. D. is 4100. |
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company No. 5 Riemann, SW SW NW sec. 34, T. 16 S., R. 13 W., Barton County, Kansas. No. 19, cross section B-B' (Fig. 10).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 3406. | ||
3406 cir. | 25 | Chert, blue to tan, translucent, 40%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 40%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 20 %. |
3412-3415 | 7 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, buff, translucent to dense, porcelaneous, 30%. |
3415-3416 | 10 | Sand, ranging from 0.4 to 0.1 mm diameter, rounded and frosted, 100%. |
3416-3418 | 11 | Sand, rounded, frosted, as above, 90%; chert, light, brown, translucent, with brown, translucent oölites, 10%. |
3418-3421 1/2 | 10 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, light tan, translucent, with faint translucent oölites and oöcasts, 40%.; flecks light green shale. |
3421 1/2-3423 1/2 | 13 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, tan, translucent, 30%; chert tan, dense, porcelaneous, mottled, 30%. |
3423 1/2-3426 | 11 | Chert, light tan, translucent, semiquartzose, 25%; quartz, drusy, tan, 25%; chert, white, dense, rough, containing white dense oölites, partly weathered out, 25%; sand, as above, 20%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
3426-3427 | 12 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, tan, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, tan, 10%; chert, white, dense to translucent, with white oölites, 5%. |
3427-3428 | 24 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, tan, as above, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with large brown translucent oölites, 5%; quartz, drusy, tan, 5%. |
3428-3429 | 9 | Sand, very coarse, rounded, frosted, ranging from 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, 87%; drusy, tan, 8%; chert, tan, as above, 5%. |
3429-3430 | 13 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, light tan, translucent, with faint white translucent oölites, 15%; quartz, drusy, tan, 10%; considerable amount spongy pyrite. |
3430-3433 | 9 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, 30%; sand, as above, 25%; chert, tan, as above, with large brown translucent oölites, 25%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 20%. |
3433-3435 | 10 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, blue to tan, as above, 40%; chert, rough, as above, 10%. |
3435-3436 | 10 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 50%;; sand, as above, 50%. |
3436-3436 1/2 | 12 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent to translucent, 40%; chert, cream, dense, porcelaneous, with brown, translucent oölites, 30%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, cream, spongy, finely dolocastic, 10%; much light green, waxy shale. |
3436 1/2-3436' 8" | 6 | Sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, and fine, bright, angular, 50%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%; chert, white, semiquartzose, 10%; chert, bluish, translucent, 10%; chert, brown, translucent, banded with white dense chert, 10%; much tarnished spongy pyrite. |
3436' 8"-3438 | 6 | Chert, tan, translucent, semiquartzose, with white dense oölites, 40%; sand, as above, 35%; chert, bluish, translucent, 20%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 5%; much spongy pyrite. |
3438-3444 | 21 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 25%; chert, cream, dense, porcelaneous, with scattered brown translucent oölites, 15%; chert, bluish, translucent, 5%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%. |
3444-3448 | 13 | Sand as above, 40%; chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 25%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 25%; chert, fragile, white, rough, coarsely dolocastic, 10%. |
3448-3455 | 9 | Chert, tan, dense to translucent, faintly mottled, 40%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, few large rounded, frosted grains, 30%; chert, blue, to tan, with veins of crystalline quartz, 15%; chert, white, dense, rough, 15%. |
3455-3465 | 14 | Sand, as above, 50,%; chert, tan to bluish, translucent, 25%; chert, white, porcelaneous, with large brown translucent oölites, 15%; chert, white, rough, dense, 10%. |
3465-3470 | 12 | Sand, as above, 38%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, oölitic, as above, 20%; chert, white to tan, dense, porcelaneous, 20%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, semiquartzose, 15%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%; oölite aggregates, coated with drusy, quartz, 2%. |
3470-3475 | 5 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, tan to bluish, translucent, 15%; chert, white, quartzose, 10%; chert, tan to brown, translucent, 10%. |
3475-3480 | 8 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, tan, translucent to dense, porcelaneous, 25%; chert, white, dense, rough, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
3480-3485 | 8 | Chert, white, dense to tan, translucent, 40%; sand, sub- rounded, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, with few grains 1.0 mm diameter, rounded and frosted, 40%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with traces of oölites, and bands and veins of crystalline quartz, 20%. |
3485-3490 | 13 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, dull to rough, 15%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, with numerous brown oölites, 15%. |
3490-3495 | 11 | Sand, as above, with flakes mica, 35%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 35%; chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 20%; chert, white, porcelaneous, 5%; chert, white, dense, rough, 5%. |
3495-3500 | 11 | Sand, angular to subrounded, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, 30%; chert, white, dense, with altered rough surface and trace oölites, partly weathered out, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, oöcasts lined with drusy quartz, and scattered large brown translucent oölites ringed with white dense chert, 15%; chert, blue to tan, as above, 15%. |
3500-3506 1/2 | 9 | Chert, light tan, translucent, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
3506 1/2-3515 | 10 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with large brown translucent and white dense oölites, 30%. |
3515-3518 | 6 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, with included sand grains, 20%. |
3518-3523 | 9 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 30%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, 30%; chert, dark brown, dense, mottled, 10%. |
3523-3528 | 8 | Chert, tan, translucent, 50%; sand, as above, with flecks green shale, 50%. |
3528-3532 | 12 | Sand, as above, 35%; chert, tan, translucent, with numerous included sand grains and sand grain cavities and scattered pyrite crystals on surface, 30%; chert, white to buff, dense, porcelaneous, 30%; chert, white, finely dolocastic, fragile, 5%. |
3532-3536 | 11 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, white, dense, dull to vitreous, 25%; chert, white, dense to brown, translucent, mottled, with fine pyrite crystals on surface, 25%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%. |
3536-3540 | 5 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, white, dense, with faint brown translucent oölites, 5%. |
3540-3545 | 10 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, oölitic, as above, 50%. |
3545-3550 | 6 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, tan, translucent, veined and encrusted with crystalline quartz, 20%; chert, bluish-white, semitranslucent, 10%; chert, cream, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 3550. | ||
3550-3555 | 6 | Sand, angular to subrounded, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, but with large rounded, frosted grains 2.0 mm diameter, 95%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 5%. |
3555-3560 | 7 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 10%. |
3560-3580 | 8 | Sand, as above, with traces weathered feldspar, 100%. |
3580-3585 | 15 | Sand, as above, 75%; sand grains in chert, 25%. |
35S5-3595 | 18 | Sand, as above, with considerable amounts of mica and weathered arkosic material, 80,%; sand grains in chert, 10%; sand grains in well-indurated clusters, 100%. |
3595-3605 | 20 | Sand, as above, 80%; sand grains in chert, 20%. |
3605-3650 | 13 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3650-3675 | 16 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
3675-3690 | 9 | Sand, as above, with mica flakes 2.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 3690, | ||
3690-3760 | Pink granite. | |
T. D. is 3762. |
Phillips Petroleum Company No. 1 Vernon, NE NE sec. 32, T. 3 S., R. 28 W., Decatur County, Kansas. No. 37, cross sections D-D', I-A and I-I' (Figs. 12 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Roubidoux dolomite, 4275. | ||
4275-4280 | 60 | Chert, tan, translucent, vitreous, 50%; chert, blue, translucent, milky, 25%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, secondarily coated, and associated with much glauconite or green shale, 25%. |
4280-4284 | Samples missing. | |
4284-4290 | 38 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, tan, translucent, vitreous to quartzose, 20%. |
4290-4295 | 25 | Sand, as above, 85%; feldspar, weathered, 15%. |
4295-4297 | Sample missing. | |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 4297. | ||
4297-4300 | 14 | Sand, fine, well sorted, with much glauconite, 100%. |
4300-4305 | 19 | Sand, as above, associated with numerous glauconite grains 0.5 mm diameter, 100%. |
4305-4310 | 20 | Sand, as above, 75%; sand, coarse, subrounded, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 25%. |
4310-4335 | 23 | Sand, fine, as above, 60%; sand, coarse, as above, 40%; much glauconite. |
4335-4340 | 13 | Sand, fine, as above, 55%; glauconite, bright green, large shiny grains, (1.0 mm diameter), 25%; sand, coarse, as above, 20%. |
4340-4355 | 18 | Glauconite, 50%; sand, coarse, as above, 50%. |
4355-4360 | 20 | Sand, bright, angular, ranging from 0.5 to 0.1 mm diameter, 90%; glauconite, 10%; trace mica flakes. |
Top Lamotte sandstone, 4363. | ||
4360-4365 | 27 | Sand, as above, free and in aggregates, 90%; glauconite, 10%. |
4365-4370 | 38 | Sand, well sorted, averaging 0.2 mm diameter and in aggregates, 50%; sand, coarse, 0.5 to 0.2 mm diameter, free, 50%; minor amount glauconite. |
4370-4380 | 83 | Sand, as above, in aggregates, 75%; sand, coarse, free, as above, 25%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 4380. | ||
4380-4400 | 100 | Pink granite. |
T. D. |
Cities Service Oil Company No. 1 Victory Life Insurance Company, W2 W2 NW sec. 36, T. 13 S., R. 30 W., Gove County, Kansas. No. 21, cross sections B-B' and I-A (Figs. 10 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 4600 or 4601 (company top) | ||
4600-4615 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
4615-4620 | 6 | Sand, well sorted, subrounded, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, free and in well-indurated clusters resembling sand grains in chert, 30%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, with faint brown oölites, 30%; chert, white to gray blue, dense, mottled, 30%; chert, white, rough, 10%; much crystalline pyrite. |
4620-4625 | 8 | Sand, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 30%; quartz, drusy, brown, 20%; chert, tan, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense, mottled with dark blue veinlets, 20%; chert, bluish, translucent, waxy-lustered, 10%. |
4625-4630 | 9 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, 75%; quartz, drusy, brown, 15%; chert, dolocastic, quartzose, 10%. |
4630-4635 | 25 | Chert, bluish, translucent, 55%; chert, white, rough, with cavities due to removal of sand grains or oölites, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 10%; chert, white dense, porcelaneous, 5%; druse, tan, 5%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
4635-4640 | 13 | Chert, tan, dense, semiquartzose, with faint brown translucent oölites, 60%; chert, white, rough, finely dolocastic, 30%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 0.2 mm diameter, 10%; much tarnished spongy pyrite. |
4646-4650 | 11 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 20%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered brown translucent oölites, 15%; chert, white, rough, dense, 15%; chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 10%. |
4650-4655 | 3 | Sand, as above, 501%; chert, dolocastic, quartzose, 15%; chert, white, porcelaneous, with tan translucent oölites, 10%; chert, tan, oölitic, as above, 10%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%; quartz, drusy, 5%. |
4655-4660 | 6 | Chert, white, dense, rough, mottled with brown dense chert, 35%; chert, white, dense, rough, 35%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, 20%; sand, as above, 10%. |
4660-4665 | 20 | Chert, blue to tan, as above, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with scattered white oölites, 30%; chert, white, dense, finely dolocastic, 15%; sand, fine, subangular, 15%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, quartzose, with oöcasts, lined with drusy quartz, 10%; minor amount spongy pyrite. |
4665-4670 | 10 | Chert, white to buff, dense, vitreous, with finely dolocastic, lacy surface, 20%; chert, blue to brown, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; chert, white, porcelaneous, 20%; sand, fine, as above, 20,%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
4670-4675 | 10 | Chert, white to buff, dense as above, 75%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 0.1 mm average diameter, 25%. |
4675-4680 | 6 | Chert, tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 30%; chert, lacy, dolocastic, quartzose, 30%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, blue to tan, dense, vitreous, mottled, 10%. |
4680-4685 | 5 | Chert, tan, semiquartzose, as above, 40%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 40%; sand, rounded, frosted grains 0.8 mm diameter, grading into bright, angular grains 0.2 mm diameter, 20%. |
4685-4690 | 6 | Chert, tan, semiquartzose, as above, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
4690-4693 | 6 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 30%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, oöcastic, 30%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%. |
4693-4700 | 6 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, dark gray to blue and tan, mottled, banded, semitranslucent, 25%; chert, white, dense, with dark blue oölites, 10%; chert, white to cream, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 10%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 5%. |
4700-4705 | 20 | Chert, mottled, as above (may be cave), 50%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 15%; chert, white, dense, rough, 15%; much pyrite. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 4705. | ||
4705-4710 | 5 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, with scattered brown, translucent oölites, 40%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 40%; chert, quartzose, with oöcasts and free oölites, crusted with drusy quartz, 20%. |
4710-4715 | 7 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, semi-quartzose, 35%; chert, blue, dense, mottled, 20%; chert, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 5%. |
4715-4720 | 6 | Chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, with scattered dark brown, translucent oölites, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
4720-4725 | 15 | Sand, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.4 mm diameter, 50%; chert, tan, as above, with scattered white, dense oölites, 25%; sand grains in chert, 15%; chert, gray, dense, vitreous, (caved from higher beds ?), 10%. |
4725-4730 | 14 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, tan, as above, non-oölitic, 15%. |
4730-4735 | 8 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, with numerous included sand grains, 15%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 5%; chert, tan, as above, 5%. |
4735-4740 | 8 | Sand, coarse, poorly sorted, ranging from coarse rounded, frosted grains 1.0 mm diameter to bright, angular grains 0.1 mm diameter, 80%; sand grains in chert, 15%; chert, tan, as above, with white, dense oölites, 5%; trace green shale and glauconite. |
4740-4743 | 5 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, dense, mottled with brown, 10%; numerous flecks bright green shale. |
4743-4750 | 7 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, blue to tan, dense, vitreous, 10%. |
4750-4755 | 11 | Sand, as above, 65%; sand in well-indurated aggregates, 25%; chert, blue to tan, as above, 5%; chert, brown, with numerous dark brown dense oölites, 5%. |
4755-4765 | 5 | Sand, with much drusy quartz coating, 100%. |
4765-4770 | 7 | Sand, finer, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, mostly bright, angular, 90%; chert, white, translucent, with included sand grains, 10%. |
4770-4775 | 16 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4775-4790 | 5 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
4790-4800 | 4 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, soft, coarsely dolocastic, 20%; considerable green dolocastic, pyritic shale. |
4800-4810 | 6 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 50%; much lacy, dolocastic green shale. |
4810-4825 | 6 | Sand, as above, 55%; drusy, quartz, 25%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%. |
4825-4830 | 2 | Sand, subangular, averaging 0.2 mm diameter, with flecks bright green shale, 100%. |
4830-4845 | 4 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, soft, white, lacy, dolocastic, 10% ; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%. |
4845-4850 | 4 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, white, dense, rough, with scattered large dolocasts, 25%; chert, white, translucent, faintly oölitic, 10%. |
4850-4870 | 3 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, bluish, semitranslucent, 5% |
4870-4875 | 3 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, coarse, lacy, dolocastic, 15%. |
4875-4885 | 3 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, tan, dense, vitreous, 15%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
4885-4895 | 3 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, soft, white, lacy, dolocastic, 10%. |
4895-4900 | 4 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, 25%; chert, white to buff, dense, dull, 10%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
4900-4905 | 3 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 75%; sand, coarse, rounded, frosted grains, averaging 0.8 mm diameter, 25%. |
4905-4920 | 2 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%; chert, soft, white, lacy, dolocastic, 10%. |
4920-4950 | 3 | Sand, very fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
4950-4975 | 3 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, soft, medium finely dolocastic, 25%. |
4975-4980 | 2 | Sand, as above, with drusy coatings, 75%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 4980. | ||
4980-4985 | 8 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, coarse, dolocastic, lacy, 15%. |
4985-4995 | 3 | Sand, as above, 55%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 45%. |
4995-5000 | 4 | Sand, as above, 45%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 45%; chert, white to buff, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%. |
5000-5005 | 6 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 40%; chert, white, dense, rough, with scattered large dolocasts, 30%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, buff, as above, 10%. |
5005-5025 | 4 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 50%; sand, as above, 40%; chert, white, rough, as above, 10%; much dark spongy pyrite. |
5025-5030 | 4 | Chert, white, quartzose to soft, dense, coarsely dolocastic, 60%; chert, brown, coarsely dolocastic, 40%. |
5030-5050 | 6 | Chert, brown, spongy, dolocastic, 70%; sand, fine, bright, angular, 20%; chert, dense, vitreous tan, 10%. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 5050. | ||
5050-5055 | 10 | Sand, coarser, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 50%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 30%; chert, tan, as above, 20%. |
5055-5098 | 11 | Sand, as above, with flecks bright green shale or glauconite, 75%; chert, brown, dolocastic, as above, 25%. |
5098-5103 | 15 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5103-5115 | 16 | Sand, as above, with few large grains 3.0 mm diameter, 100%. |
5115-5125 | 28 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5125-5135 | 20 | Sand, as above, approximately half in aggregates associated with a considerable amount of glauconite, 100%. |
5135-5140 | 36 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5140-5160 | 48 | Sand, as above, approximately 75% in aggregates and associated with mica flakes, 100%. |
Top Pre-Cambrian granite, 5160. | ||
5160-5169 | 100 | Pink granite. |
T. D. |
Alma Oil Company and Robert McNeeley No. 1 Watchorn, SW NE sec. 13, T. 15 S., R. 33 W., Logan County, Kansas. No. 22, cross sections B-B' and I-A (Figs. 10 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 5950. | ||
5050-5065 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5065-5070 | 25 | Chert, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 80%; chert, tan, translucent, vitreous, 15%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
5070-5075 | 2 | Pyrite, spongy, 25%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 25%; chert, cream, soft, finely porous, with cavities due to removal of microfossils (caved from higher beds?), 25%. |
5075-5080 | 11 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 75%; sand, as above, 25%. |
5080-5085 | 9 | Chert, tan, dense to semitranslucent, vitreous, 40%; sand, coarse, rounded, frosted grains, ranging to angular subrounded grains 0.1 mm diameter, 40%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%. |
5085-5095 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5095-5105 | 5 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 40%; chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 30%; chert, blue to tan, translucent, with large translucent oölites, 30%. |
5105-5110 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
5110-5115 | 2 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, tan, dense, vitreous, 25%. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 5120. | ||
5115-5125 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
5125-5130 | 5 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white to cream, rough, dolocastic, 25%; chert, tan, translucent, with dark brown oölites, 25%. |
5130-5135 | 14 | Chert, white, dense, with brown translucent oölites, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
5135-5140 | 7 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, cream, dense, rough, 30%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, semiquartzose, 30%. |
5140-5145 | 5 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 75% sand, as above, 25%. |
5145-5150 | 3 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white to tan, dense, vitreous, with brown translucent oölites, 50%. |
5150-5155 | 5 | Sand, as above, 55%; chert, white, quartzose, medium finely dolocastic, 15%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 15%; chert, blue, dense, vitreous, 15%. |
5155-5160 | 9 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, tan, dense, vitreous, with brown oölites, 40%. |
5160-5165 | 4 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, bluish white, vitreous, with dark brown to gray oölites, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 5%. |
5165-5170 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5170-5175 | 6 | Sand, fine, averaging 0.2 mm diameter and with secondary quartz enlargement, 100% |
5175-5185 | Samples missing. | |
5185-5190 | 9 | Chert, tan, translucent to dense, vitreous, with numerous brown translucent oölites, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
5190-5195 | 14 | Sand, coarse, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 85%; chert, buff, dense, rough, finely dolocastic, 15%. |
5195-5200 | 12 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, with oöcasts lined with drusy quartz, 25%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 5%. |
5200-5220 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5220-5225 | 14 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, tan, dense, vitreous, with scattered brown oölites and few dolocasts, 25%; chert, brown, spongy, finely dolocastic, 5%. |
5225-5230 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
5230-5235 | 4 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%. |
5235-5240 | 14 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, tan, 10%; chert, rough, 10%. |
5240-5245 | 7 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, white, dense, rough, 25%. |
5245-5255 | 8 | Sand, as above, 85%;; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 15%. |
5255-5260 | 11 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%. |
5260-5285 | 6 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, well-sorted, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, approximately one-third in drusy clusters. |
5285-5290 | 9 | Sand, bright, angular, well sorted, coarser than previous samples, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, with scattered fine dolocasts, 30%. |
5290-5300 | 4 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5300-5305 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
5305-5310 | 7 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; sand, coarse, subrounded and frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 50%. |
5310-5320 | 2 | Sand, fine, as above, 80%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, 20%. |
5320-5325 | 4 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5325-5335 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5335-5340 | 8 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, quartzose, coarsely dolocastic, 20%. |
5340-5365 | 2 | Sand, fine, well sorted, subrounded, averaging 0.1 mm diameter, 100%. |
5365-5370 | 2 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging 0.3 mm diameter, 80%; oölites, cream, dense, rough, hollow, 20%. |
5370-5385 | 5 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5385-5390 | 3 | Sand, as above, 48%; and, drusy aggregates, secondarily enlarged, 25%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 20%; chert, brown, dense, mottled, 5%; oölites, tan, coated with white porous chert, 2%. |
5390-5395 | 4 | Sand, as above, with much spongy pyrite, 80%; chert, white, dense, faintly mottled, 10%; chert, tan, translucent, 5%; chert, cream, spongy, finely dolocastic, 5%. |
5395-5410 | 5 | Sand, as above, 55%; chert, white, dense, dull, 15%; chert, tan to blue, dense, with scattered brown oölites, 15%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 15%. |
5410-5425 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5425-5435 | 2 | Sand, as above, associated with flecks of dolocastic green shale, 75%; chert, white, semitranslucent, 25%. |
5435-5440 | 1 | Sand, as above, 95%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
5440-5445 | 3 | Sand, as above, associated with much green shale or glauconite, 95%; chert, tan, translucent, vitreous, 5%. |
5445-5455 | 2 | Sand, as above, 95%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 5%. |
5455-5465 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5465-5470 | 3 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, medium fine to very fine, dolocastic, 25%; chert, blue, translucent, vitreous, 5%; trace coarse, round, frosted sand grains up to 1.5 mm diameter. |
Top Eminence dolomite, 5470. | ||
5470-5475 | 2 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, white, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, 10%. |
5475-5480 | 17 | Chert, tan, dense, vitreous, mottled, 30%; chert, white, dense, rough, dolocastic, 30%; sand, as above, 30%; drusy, quartz, 10%. |
5480-5485 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5485-5490 | 13 | Chert, tan, faintly mottled, with scattered dolocasts, 40%; chert, tan, dense, vitreous, 30%; sand, fine, as above 20%; sand grains, large, 3.0 mm diameter, 10%. |
5490-5495 | 7 | Chert, blue to tan, semitranslucent vitreous, 25%; chert, tan, quartzose, with vugs(?), 25%; chert, blue, dense, faintly mottled, 25%; sand, as above, 25%. |
5495-5500 | 9 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, white, dense, rough to vitreous, coarsely dolocastic, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 30%. |
5500-5505 | 5 | Chert, dolocastic, as above, 25%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, with cavities lined with drusy quartz, 25%; sand, as above, with flecks of dolocastic green shale, 25%; chert, dense, porcelaneous, 15%; chert, white, dense, rough, porous, 10%. |
5505-5510 | 5 | Sand, as above, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 30%; chert, tan, mottled, (caved?), 30%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 5%. |
5510-5515 | 7 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, porous, 10%; chert, white, semitranslucent, vitreous, 10%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%. |
5515-5525 | 6 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, gray to brown, spongy, coarsely dolocastic, 15%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 10%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%; chert, tan to blue, semitranslucent, 5%. |
5525-5530 | 8 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 30%. |
5530-5535 | 14 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 40%. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 5535. | ||
5535-5540 | 10 | Sand, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, associated with a considerable amount of glauconite, 100%. |
5540-5545 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5545-5550 | 7 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5550-5555 | 8 | Sand, as above, 75%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 25%; minor amount spongy pyrite and glauconite. |
5555-5560 | 9 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5560-5585 | 24 | Sand, as above, 100%; trace mica flakes; few glauconite grains. |
5585-5590 | 33 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5590-5595 | Sample too small to make residues. | |
5595-5605 | 20 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
Top Lamotte sandstone, 5-650. | ||
5605-5665 | Samples too small to make residues. Examination of samples indicates presence of sand, as above, with much glauconite. Top Reagan sand also reported at 5647. Top Pre-Cambrian granite reported at 5662 | |
5665-5750 | Pink granite. | |
T. D. |
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company No. 5 Judd, SE SE sec. 15, T. 21 S., R. 38 W., Kearny County, Kansas. No. 12, cross sections A-A' and I-A (Figs. 11 and 13).
Depth, feet |
Residue, percentage of sample |
Description and percentage of insoluble residues |
---|---|---|
Eroded top of the Cotter-Jefferson City sequence, 5550. | ||
5550-5555 | 10 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 100%. |
5555-5560 | 8 | Chert, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, 50%; chert, white, dense, dull to vitreous, 50%; flecks green shale. |
5560-5565 | 9 | Chert, white, as above, 50%; chert, light tan, translucent, with brown, translucent oölites, 50%. |
5566-5571 | 6 | Sand, rounded, frosted, ranging from 1.0 to 0.1 mm diameter, 50%; chert, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, 35%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%; chert, brown, translucent, 5%. |
5571-5576 | 7 | Chert, white, dense, dull-lustered, with faint brown oölites, 80%; sand, as above, 20%. |
5577-5580 | 13 | Chert, white, dense, vitreous, with inclusions of brown crystalline quartz, 65%; chert, brown, translucent, with scattered coarse dolocasts, 20%; sand, as above, 10%; chert, brown, translucent, with included sand grains, 5%. |
5580-5584 | 14 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 60%; sand, as above, 30%; chert, brown, with included sand grains, as above, 10%. |
5584-5590 | 11 | Sand, as above, 50%; chert, white, dense to semitranslucent, 50%. |
5590-5595 | 10 | Chert, light tan, semitranslucent, quartzose, grading to a dark brown drusy quartz, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 35%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, dolocastic, 5%. |
5595-5600 | 14 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 75%; sand as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
5600-5605 | 6 | Chert, white to buff, dense, rough, 60%; chert, bluish white, semitranslucent, 40%. |
5605-5610 | 10 | Chert, white, dense, rough, 55%; sand, rounded, frosted, 30%; chert, gray, finely porous, dolocastic, 10%; quartz, drusy, dark brown, 5%. |
5610-5615 | 14 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 50%; chert, light tan, semitranslucent, quartzose, 40%; sand, as above, 10%. |
5615-5620 | 8 | Chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with trace included sand grains, 45%; chert, bluish-white, translucent, 30%; chert, brown translucent, 20%; sand, as above, 5%. |
5620-5625 | 15 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 30%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%; chert, bluish white, as above, 20%; chert, brown, dense to translucent, quartzose, 10%. |
5625-5630 | 8 | Chert, porcelaneous, as above, 70%; chert, white, dense, rough, 20%; chert, light tan, translucent, 10%. |
5630-5635 | 9 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 75%; chert, porcelaneous, as above, with inclusions of brown crystalline quartz, 20%; quartz, drusy, brown, 5%. |
5635-5640 | 6 | Chert, porcelaneous to rough, white, dense, 65%; chert, white dolocastic, quartzose, 20%; sand, rounded, frosted, 10%; quartz, drusy, clear, 5%. |
5640-5645 | 7 | Quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 45%; chert, porcelaneous, 45%. |
5645-5650 | 9 | Quartz, milky, angular fragments, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 30%; chert, white, dense, rough, 10%; chert, brown to tan, translucent, 10%; chert, finely dolocastic, quartzose, 5%; sand, rounded, frosted, 5%. |
5650-5655 | 3 | Sand, as above, 40,%; chert, white, dense, rough, 40%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 10%; quartz, drusy, tan to brown, 10%. |
5655-5660 | 9 | Quartz, milky, angular fragments, 45%; sand, as above, 20%; chert, tan semitranslucent, quartzose, 20%; chert, white to buff, dense, vitreous, 10%; chert white, dense, rough, 5%. |
5660-5665 | 8 | Chert, tan, semitranslucent, with scattered, coarse dolocasts, 60%; chert, tan, semitranslucent, vitreous, 20%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 10%; sand, as above, 10%. |
5665-5670 | 9 | Chert, tan, translucent, vitreous, 70%; sand, as above, 30%. |
5670-5675 | 7 | Chert, white, dense, rough, with scattered large dolocasts and fine pyrite crystals on surface, 40%; chert, tan, translucent to white, dense, with tan quartzose inclusions which may be oölites, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%; considerable amount crystalline pyrite. |
Top Roubidoux dolomite, 5675. | ||
5675-5680 | 7 | Sand, ranging from rounded, frosted grains 0.7 mm diameter to bright, angular grains less than 0.1 mm diameter, 75%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 25%. |
5680-5685 | 5 | Sand, as above, 65%; quartz, drusy, tan, may be aggregates of coated sand grains, 25%; chert, tan to white, dense, vitreous, with faint brown opaque oölites, 10%. |
5685-5690 | 8 | Chert, light tan, translucent, 50%; sand, as above, 50%. |
5690-5695 | 10 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, vitreous to quartzose, 10%; quartz, crystalline, angular fragments, 5%. |
5690-5695 | 6 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, with few fossil (?) cavities, 20%. |
5695-5700 | 7 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, semitranslucent, tan, 20%. |
5700-5705 | 9 | Sand, rounded, frosted, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, 60%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous (one fragment has fine brown oölites), 30%; quartz, milky, angular fragments, 10%. |
5705-5710 | 3 | Sand, as above, 75%; chert, tan, translucent, with scattered coarse dolocasts, 20%; chert, tan, translucent, vitreous to quartzose, 5%. |
5710-5715 | 7 | Sand, as above, 65%; chert, white, dense, vitreous to quartzose, 30%; chert, brown, semitranslucent, 5%; considerable amount spongy pyrite. |
5715-5720 | Samples too small to make residues. | |
5720-5725 | 6 | Sand, rounded, frosted, ranging from 0.7 to 0.1 mm diameter, 50%.; chert, tan, semitranslucent, quartzose, with scattered large brown,, translucent oölites, 30%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous to quartzose, 20%. |
5720-5725 | 10 | Sand, as above, 40%; chert, light brown, translucent, quartzose, with numerous included sand grains and/or oölites, 40%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 20%. |
5725-5730 | 8 | Sand, as above, 60%; chert, white, dense, vitreous, with numerous white and brown oölites, 40%. |
5730-5735 | 9 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%; chert, tan, translucent, quartzose, 5%. |
5735-5750 | 7 | Sand, as above, 85%; chert, white, dense, rough, with white, opaque oölites partly weathered out, 15%. |
5750-5755 | 6 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, finely dolocastic, mealy-textured, 10%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 5%; chert, brown, translucent, oölitic, 5%. |
5755-5800 | 7 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5800-5850 | 4 | Sand, rounded, frosted, 0.6 mm to less than 0.1 mm diameter, with flecks green shale, 90%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
5850-5855 | 4 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%; chert, brown, translucent, quartzose, 10%. |
5855-5860 | 5 | Sand, as above, 80%; chert, lacy, dolocastic, quartzose, 10%; chert, white, dense, porcelaneous, 10%. |
5860-5865 | 3 | Sand, as above, 70%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 20%; quartz, drusy, brown, 10%. |
5865-5870 | 4 | Sand, as above, 90%; chert, dolocastic, as above, 10%. |
5870-5900 | 5 | Sand, as above, 100%. |
5900-6000 | 6 | Sand, bright, angular, averaging less than 0.1 mm diameter, with few large, rounded, frosted grains, 100%. |
Top Bonneterre dolomite, 6000. | ||
6000-6010 | 4 | Sand, fine, as above, 90%; sand grains, coarse, rounded, frosted, 10%; trace glauconite. |
6010-6015 | 9 | Sand, fine, bright, angular, free and in clusters, 90%; shale, dark brown, spongy, 10%; considerable amount of spongy pyrite. |
6015-6020 | 5 | Sand, coarse, averaging 0.5 mm diameter, mostly bright and angular, 100%. |
6020-6025 | 4 | Sand, as above, 95%; chert, lacy, coarsely dolocastic, quartzose, 5%; considerable amount glauconite and green shale. |
6025-6050 | 6 | Sand, glauconitic, as above, 100%. |
Pre-Cambrian granite, 6050. | ||
6050-6060 | Gray granite, with dark gray and pink feldspar visible. | |
6060-6065 | Granite, as above; amethyst quartz present. | |
6065-6069 | Fresh pink granite | |
T. D. is 6071. |
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