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The Kansas Rock Column (1951)

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Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Cenozoic rocks

Quaternary System

Pleistocene Series

Tertiary System

Pliocene Series

Mesozoic rocks

Cretaceous System

Gulfian Series

Comanchean Series

Jurassic and Triassic Systems

Igneous rocks

Metamorphic rocks

Paleozoic rocks

Permian System

Guadalupian Series

Quartermaster group

Leonardian Series

Nippewalla group

Sumner group

Wolfcampian Series

Chase group

Council Grove group

Admire group

Pennsylvanian System

Virgilian Series

Wabaunsee group

Shawnee group

Douglas group

Missourian Series

Pedee group

Lansing group

Kansas City group

Pleasanton group

Desmoinesian Series

Marmaton group

Cherokee group

Atokan Series

Morrowan Series

Pre-Pennsylvanian rocks

Mississippian System

Chesteran Series

Meramecian Series

Osagian Series

Kinderhookian Series

Mississippian or Devonian System

Devonian System

Silurian System

Ordovician System

Simpson group

Arbuckle group

Cambrian System

Pre-Cambrian rocks

Selected Bibliography


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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
Placed on web Oct. 28, 2008; originally published Jan. 1951.
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