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Stratigraphy
Structural development
Terminology
Acknowledgments
Rocks of Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician age
Lamotte sandstone
Bonneterre dolomite
Eminence dolomite
Van Buren-Gasconade sequence
Roubidoux dolomite
Jefferson City and Cotter dolomites
St. Peter sandstone
Rocks of Middle and Late Ordovician age
Platteville formation
Kimmswick limestone
First zone
Second zone
Third zone
Fourth zone
Maquoketa shale
First zone
Second zone
Third zone
Fourth zone
Fifth zone
Lower zone
Upper zone
Rocks of Devonian or Mississippian age
Chattanooga shale
Boice shale
Kinderhookian Series
Sedalia dolomite
Gilmore City limestone
Osagian Series
St. Joe limestone
Reeds Spring limestone
Burlington and Keokuk limestones
Lower zone
Upper zone
Meramecian Series
"Warsaw" limestone
Spergen limestone
Desmoinesian Series
Cherokee shale
Marmaton group
Missourian Series
Pleasanton group
Kansas City and Lansing groups
Kansas City group
Bronson subgroup
Linn and Zarah subgroups
Lansing group
Pedee group
Virgilian Series
Douglas group
Shawnee group
Wabaunsee group
Wolfcampian Series
Admire group
Council Grove group
Chase group
Leonardian Series
Sumner group
Wellington formation
Ninnescah shale
Stone Corral dolomite
Nippewalla group
Comanchean Series
Gulfian Series
Colorado group
Rocks of Tertiary and Quaternary age
Structural development of the Salina basin
Development of the North Kansas basin
Deformation of rocks of Simpson age
Deformation of the Kimmswick-Maquoketa sequence
Deformation of the Maquoketa-Silurian sequence
Overall deformation between base of St. Peter and base of Devonian
Deformation of the Devonian rocks
Deformation of the Chattanooga and Boice shales
Overall deformation between the base of the St. Peter and the base of the Mississippian limestones
Development of the Nemaha anticline and the Salina basin
Deformation during Mississippian time
Deformation at the end of Mississippian time
Deformation during Pennsylvanian and Permian time
Deformation between the top of the Pennsylvanian basal conglomerate and the Hertha limestone
Deformation between the Hertha limestone and the Topeka limestone
Deformation between the Topeka limestone and the Barneston limestone
Deformation between the Barneston limestone and the Stone Corral dolomite
Relation of Pennsylvanian and early Permian deformation in Kansas to the Ouachita basin
Relation of the structural development of the region to the accumulation of oil and gas
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