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Table of Contents
Part 1: Rock Formations of Lyon County, by Howard G. O'Connor
- Introduction
- Location and geography
- Field work
- Previous geologic work
- Acknowledgments
- Stratigraphy of outcrops
- Quaternary System
- Tertiary System
- Permian System
- Pennsylvanian System
Part 2: Mineral Resources of Lyon County, by Howard G. O'Connor, Edwin G. Goebel, and Norman Plummer
- Introduction
- Economic geology of outcropping rocks
- Limestone
- Ceramic materials
- Gravel and sand
- Volcanic ash
- Coal
- Subsurface rocks
- Stratigraphy and structure
- Oil and gas
Part 3: Ground-water Resources of Lyon County, by Howard G. O'Connor
- Ground-water resources
- Source
- Principles of occurrence
- Unconfined water
- Confined water
- Artesian conditions
- Ground-water recharge
- Recharge and disposition of precipitation
- Seepage from streams and ponds
- Percolation from outside the area
- Discharge of subsurface water
- Evaporation and transpiration
- Springs and seeps
- Discharge by wells
- Public water supplies
- Industrial supplies
- Availability of large ground-water supplies
- Chemical character of water
- Dissolved solids
- Hardness
- Iron
- Fluoride
- Nitrate
- Sulfate
- Chloride
- Sanitary considerations
- Ground-water regions in Chase County
- Region A
- Region B
- Region C
- Region D
- Region E
- Well-numbering system
- Records of wells
- Logs of test holes
- References
- Plates
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Kansas Geological Survey, Lyon County Geohydrology
Web version Sept. 2001. Original publication date March 1953.
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