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Eastern Shawnee County

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Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Previous work

Stratigraphy

Cambrian System

Cambrian and Ordovician Systems

Silurian and Devonian Systems

Devonian and Mississippian Systems

Mississippian System

Pennsylvanian System

Des Moines Series

Missouri Series

Virgil Series

Douglas Group

Shawnee Group

Oread Limestone

Kanwaka Shale

Lecompton Limestone

Tecumseh Shale

Deer Creek Limestone

Calhoun Shale

Topeka Limestone

Wabaunsee Group

Severy Shale

Howard Limestone

Scranton Shale

Bern Limestone

Auburn Shale

Emporia Limestone

Willard Shale

Zeandale Limestone

Pillsbury Shale

Stotler Limestone

Quaternary System

Glacial drift

Buck Creek(?) terrace deposits

Newman terrace deposits

Alluvium

Deposition of exposed Upper Pennsylvanian strata

Structure

Economic geology

Oil and gas

Coal

Limestone

Sand and gravel

Clay

Stratigraphic sections

References cited

Plates


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