Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2015-2

Copies of Archived Correspondence Pertinent to the Decision to Classify the Exposure at Point of Rocks, Morton County, Kansas, as Jurassic by the Kansas Geological Survey in 1967

by Robert S. Sawin

KGS Open File Report 2015-2
February 2014

Copies of memoranda related to the decision by the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) Committee on Stratigraphic Nomenclature in 1967 to classify the rocks exposed at Point of Rocks, Morton County, Kansas, as Jurassic are held in the KGS archives in Lawrence, Kansas. The purpose of this report is to make these files more readily citable and to explain their significance as they relate to decisions that were made about the classification of the exposure at Point of Rocks leading up to publication of The Stratigraphic Succession in Kansas (Zeller, 1968) by the KGS.

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• OFR2015-2.pdf (5 MB)

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