Measured By J.M. Jewett, H.G. O'Connor, 8/6/1947; Shale - mottled gray; large Composita, bryozoans, Derbya Sp, Rhomboporoids, Fenestellids, harder; more limy in lower part,Limestone - medium Portland cement gray; small high spired gastropods abundant; Aviculopecten, Pseudomonotis (clams well seen on weathered surfaces,Shale - greenish,Shale - red at top, greenish gray in lower part,Covered,Covered (includes 5),Limestone - white; finely porous; chalky,Covered (includes 7),Limestone - gray; hard, partly crystalline; high gastropods; brachiopods,Limestone - creamy; with limonitic fossil stains; some crystalline fossils , i.e. high gastropods and brachiopods,Covered,Limestone - medium gray; +/- earthy to dense; platy beds not all well [...]
Summary
Measured By J.M. Jewett, H.G. O'Connor, 8/6/1947; Shale - mottled gray; large
Composita, bryozoans,
Derbya Sp, Rhomboporoids,
Fenestellids, harder; more limy in lower part,Limestone - medium Portland cement gray; small high spired gastropods abundant;
Aviculopecten, Pseudomonotis (clams well seen on weathered surfaces,Shale - greenish,Shale - red at top, greenish gray in lower part,Covered,Covered (includes 5),Limestone - white; finely porous; chalky,Covered (includes 7),Limestone - gray; hard, partly crystalline; high gastropods; brachiopods,Limestone - creamy; with limonitic fossil stains; some crystalline fossils , i.e. high gastropods and brachiopods,Covered,Limestone - medium gray; +/- earthy to dense; platy beds not all well exposed,Limestone - slightly yellowish-gray, weathers yellow and gray; many inclusions of quartz; thinner bedded in upper part; abundant small high spired gastropods, especially in upper part,Covered,Shale - deeply weathered; yellow,Limestone - slightly greenish gray, weathers brownish yellow; fine grained,Shale - greenish yellow; exposed,Covered,Limestone - gray, mottled; bryozoans and clams; slabby beds,Shale - yellow to green,Limestone - white, finely porous. somehwat chalky with fossil fragments; small crinoids; weathers with grey pitted surface,Chert - steel gray; odd shapes in limestone fossil fragments,Chert - steel gray; odd shapes in limestone fossil fragments,Covered,Limestone - fine porous; white; chalky,Limestone - gray; very few
Osagia, not crystalline,Shale - light gray to cream,Covered (includes 12),Limestone - very light cream; few high gastropods (few
Osaiga?),Limestone - light gray and buff; partly crystalline, few
Osagia and fragments; somewhat thin bedded,Same as 15,Limestone - very light gray; one massive ledge; a few roundish brown spots scattered throughout. Has high gastropods, weathers gray in upper part, brown in lower part. Partly crystalline.,Shale - yellow,Covered (includes 18),Shale - olive and green, grading downward to nodular buff,Limestone - yellow; softer than above,Limestone - yellow; impure; hard; exposed,Covered,Limestone - light gray; crystalline; few
Derbya and crinoids; exposed,Covered,Shale - slightly greenish; thin, harder limy layer in upper part;
Chonetes, Derbya, crinoid fragments, Rhomoporoids, bryozoans,Slabby limestone, or limy shale - gray; abundant fossils, large
Composita sp, chonetes, crinoids fragmentes (more massive in lower 0.5 feet and containing chiefly fossil fragments); lower 0.5 feet weathers as limestone,Shale - gray; limy; brachiopods grades into limestone below,Limestone - impure gray limestone, weathers +/- as "box work"; exposed,Covered, except +/- 1 foot; greenish gray shale in lower part,Limestone - greenish gray; impure nodular; grades into green shale in lower 1/2,Limestone - brownish-gray, massive veinlets of greenish material,
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The database contains a set of measured sections (precise measurements and descriptions of a cross section of an outcrop or roadcut) for selected counties in Kansas. The data is based on archived materials from the Kansas Geological Survey, with sections created from 1900's to 1950's. The graphic columns have been scanned or scanned and traced from the original copies, and the descriptions have been typed in. Current stratigraphic nomenclature may be different than that presented on these pages, and some of these outcrops may no longer exist or may not be accessible.