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Kansas Geological Survey--Annual Report 2005
Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee. In 2005, the KGS established the Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee to address stratigraphic issues and establish formally accepted stratigraphic nomenclature for Kansas. Historically, formal stratigraphic guides, nomenclature, and charts for Kansas have been produced by the KGS, which is looked to for formal guidance by state, national, and international entities. The latest accepted stratigraphic guide and chart for Kansas (The Stratigraphic Succession in Kansas: KGS Bulletin 189) was published in 1968. Since then, several published and unpublished works have proposed changes to the classification and naming of the state's stratigraphic units. The Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee's goal is to review, update, and standardize the Kansas nomenclature, develop and publish a new comprehensive formal stratigraphic guide and chart, and revise and update the Lexicon of Geologic Names of Kansas (KGS Bulletin 231).
Formation of the new Stratigraphic Research Section. Following a reorganization, the Survey's Stratigraphic Research Section was established in 2005. The purpose of the section is to explore the history of the state's rock layers at and below the earth's surface. The section's geologists explore the age, composition, distribution of fossils, and geophysical and geochemical properties of rock layers. Their findings can be used to enhance the study of the state's natural resources, including water, oil and gas, coal, and industrial minerals, such as crushed rock, sand and gravel, salt, and helium. The section also oversees the county geologic-mapping program.
Archeological dig in northwest Kansas. Researchers from the KGS and the Denver Museum of Science and Nature continued the search for early evidence of humans on the Great Plains in the summer of 2005. Investigations have turned up bones of now-extinct animals that may have been fractured by humans. Dated at 12,200 years before present, the bones could represent the oldest evidence of humans on the Great Plains. In addition to the bones, the site produced a rock fragment that could be a piece of a stone hammer. The site has also produced Clovis-age artifacts, including stone flakes and tools, from about 10,900 to 11,000 years old. The work is supported by the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund, an endowed program at KU with a directive to search for the earliest evidence of humans in the Great Plains.
Other projects:
Geoarcheology dig site along I-70 near Kanorado.
Publications
Bohling, G. C., 2005, CHRONOS age-depth plot--A Java application for stratigraphic data analysis: Geosphere, v. 1, no. 2, p. 78-84.
Emerson, N. R., Ludvigson, G. A. Witzke, B. J., Schneider, C. L., Gonzalez, L. A., and Carpenter, S. J., 2005, STOP 1 - Breuning Rock Products Quarry on the south side of Iowa State Hwy 9: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 94-103. PDF available online.
Emerson, N. R., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Smith, E. A., Gonzalez, L. A., and Carpenter, S. J., 2005, STOP 5 - The Fred Carlson Co. LLC Locust Quarry west of Locust, Iowa: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 114-121. PDF available online.
Feldman, H. R., Franseen, E. K., Joeckle, R. M., and Heckel, P. H., 2005, Impact of longer-term modest climate shifts on architecture of high-frequency sequences (cyclothems), Pennsylvanian of midcontinent, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 350-368.
Joeckel, R. M., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Kvale, E. P., Phillips, P. L., Brenner, R. L., Thomas, S. G., and Howard, L. M., 2005, Paleogeography and fluvial to estuarine architecture of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), eastern Nebraska, USA.; in, Fluvial Sedimentology VII, M. D. Blum, S. Marriott, and S. Leclair, eds.: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication No. 35, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, p. 453-480.
Johnson, C. L., Franseen, E. K., and Goldstein, R. H., 2005, The effects of relative sea level and paleotopography on lithofacies distribution and geometries in heterozoan carbonates, southeastern Spain: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 513-536.
Ludvigson, G. A. and Witzke, B. J., 2005, The emerging record of Late Ordovician global change: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 66-71. PDF available online.
Ludvigson, G. A., and Bunker, B. J., eds., 2005, Facets of the Ordovician geology of the upper Mississippi Valley region, Guidebook for the 35th Annual Field Conference of the Great Lakes Section SEPM: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, 129 p. PDF available online.
Mandel, R. D., 2005, Geomorphology and site stratigraphy; in, The Cowan Site--A Great Oasis Community in Northwest Iowa, S. C. Lensink and J. A. Tiffany, eds.: Office of the State Archeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, p. 11-21.
Mandel, R. D., 2005, Late Quaternary and modern environments in Kansas; in, Kansas Archaeology, R. J. Hoard and W. E. Banks, eds.: Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Press, p. 28-45.
Mandel, R. D., 2005, The effects of Late Quaternary landscape evolution on the archaeology of Kansas; in, Kansas Archaeology, R. J. Hoard and W. E. Banks, eds.: Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Press, p. 46-75. on the archaeology of Kansas; in, Kansas Archaeology, R. J. Hoard and W. E. Banks, eds.: Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Press, p. 46-75.
Mandel, R. D., Jacob, J. S., and Nordt, L. C., 2005, Geoarchaeology of the Richard Beene Site; in, Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site (41BX831), South Central Texas, A. V. Thoms and R. D. Mandel, eds.: Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Reports of Investigations 8, p. 27-60.
Ohlmacher, G. C., 2005, Landslide-inventory map of the McLouth and Jarbalo 7.5-minute quadrangles, Jefferson and Leavenworth counties, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-117A.
Ohlmacher, G. C., and Berendsen, P., 2005, Kinematics, mechanics, and potential earthquake hazards for faults in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, USA: Tectonophysics, v. 396, p. 227-244.
Saunders, J. W., Mandel, R. D., Sampson, C. G., Allen, C. M., Allen, E. T., Bush, D. A., Feathers, J. K., Gremillion, K. J., Hallmark, C. T., Jackson, H. E., Johnson, J. K., Jones, R., Saucier, R. T., Stringer, G. L., and Vidrine, M. F., 2005, Watson Break, a Middle Archaic mound complex in northwest Louisiana: American Antiquity, v. 70, p. 631-668.
Sawin, R. S., and West, R. R., 2005, Paleoecology of the Permian (Wolfcampian) phylloid alga Calcipatera from an in situ occurrence in Kansas, U.S.A.: Kansas Geological Survey, Current Research in Earth Sciences, Bulletin, no. 251, pt. 1 (Available online)
Tassier-Surine, S., Ludvigson, G., Witzke, B., Young, J., Anderson, R., McKay, R., Liu, P., Bunker, B., and Pals, D., 2005, Surficial geologic map of the Decorah (Iowa) 7.5-minute quadrangle: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open-file Map 05-1; contract completion report to U.S. Geological Survey for Assistance Award No. 04-HQAG-0067, July 2005 (PDF available online)
Thoms, A. V., and Mandel, R. D., eds., 2005, Archaeological and paleoecological investigations at the Richard Beene site (41BX831), south-central Texas: Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Reports of Investigations 8.
Ufnar, D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., Witzke, B. J., and Leckie, D., 2005, Reconstructing a mid-Cretaceous landscape from paleosols in western Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, no. 6, p. 984-996.
Watney, W. L., Franseen, E. K., Byrnes, A. P., and Nissen, S., 2005, Contrasting styles and common controls on Middle Mississippian and Pennsylvanian carbonate platforms in the northern midcontinent, U.S.A.; in, Unconventional Reservoirs Technology and Strategies - Alternative Perspectives for the Permian Basin, P. Lufholm and D. Cox, eds.: West Texas Geological Society, Publication 05-115, p. 221-253.
White, T. S., Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., and Brenner, R. L., 2005, Distinguishing base-level change and climate signals in a Cretaceous alluvial sequence: Geology, v. 33, no. 1, p. 13-16.
Witzke, B. J., and Ludvigson, G. A., 2005, The Ordovician Galena Group in Iowa and its regional stratigraphic relationships: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 3-21. (PDF available online.
Witzke, B. J., and Ludvigson, G. A., 2005, STOP 6--The Pole Line Road roadcut section: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 122-129. PDF available online.
Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., and Young, J. N., 2005, STOP 4--The Locust Road roadcut section along the south wall of Canoe Creek Valley: Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, no. 24, p. 111-113. PDF available online.
Abstracts & Book Reviews
Enos, P., Washburn, E. L., Franseen, E. K., and Herman, D. A., 2005, Carbonate-filled incised valleys, Upper Carboniferous, midcontinent, USA: Croatian Geological Congress.
Franseen, E. K., 2005, Book review of Paleozoic Carbonates of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); in, Subsurface Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogs edited by W. G. Zempolich and H. E. Cook, eds., SEPM Special Publication #74 (2002), 245 p.: Palaios, v. 20, p. 313-314.
Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzalez, L. A., Kirkland, J. I., You, H., Ufnar, D. F., Carpenter, S. J., and Davis, J., 2005, Stable isotope paleorecords, Early Cretaceous Yixian Fm (Barremian), Liaoning Province, P.R. China--Paleohydrologic and paleoclimatic interpretations: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 458.
Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzalez, L. A., Ufnar, D. F., White, T. S., Witzke, B. J., and Brenner, R. L., 2005, Exploring the role of the hydrologic cycle in climate model simulations of past greenhouse worlds: Annual Meeting of Iowa Academy of Science, Program Abstracts 117th Session, Abst. No. 104.
Ludvigson, G. A., Ufnar, D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Witzke, B. J., and Brenner, R. L., 2005, Reconciling the stable isotopic paleohydrology of pedogenic siderites and calcites: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 86.
Lynott, M., Weymouth, J., Mandel, R. D., Dalan, R., and Bevan, B., 2005, Ohio Hopewell earthen construction--A view from the Hopeton earthworks (abs.): Abstracts of the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2005.
Mandel, R. D., Holen, S., and Hofman, J. L., 2005, Geoarchaeology of early paleoindian and possible pre-Clovis cultural deposits at the Kanorado locality, northwestern Kansas: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 154.
Montgomery, P., Franseen, E. K., Goldstein, R. H., and Toomey, N. D., 2005, A high-resolution chronostratigraphy and rock magnetic record for Tortonian shallow-water carbonate sequences, Cerro de Ricardillo, SE Spain--Identifying climatic and sea-level cycles using magnetic techniques: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2005 Annual Convention, Abstracts Volume, p. A94.
Ohlmacher, G. C. and Macfarlane, P. A., 2005, The need for a better karst hazard estimation procedure for Pennsylvanian-Permian limestones of the midcontinent: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2005 Midcontinent Section Meeting, p. 28.
Ohlmacher, G. C., Newell, K. D., Andereck, Z., and Hoglund, C., 2005, Spatial variation in joint orientations in central Kansas; implications for tectonics of the midcontinent (abs.): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 236.
Phillips, P. L., White, T. S., Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., Gonzalez, L. A., and Pope, J. P., 2005, Significance of cone-in-cone structures in marine mudstones: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 2, p. 37.
Thoms, A. V., Johnson, E., Caran, S. C., and Mandel, R. D., 2005, Glimpses of Mammoth bone quarrying on North America's western gulf coastal plain--Two new mammoth localities near San Antonio; in, The World of Elephants--Short Papers of the 2nd International Congress, L. D. Agenbroad and R. L. Symington, eds.: Mammoth Site Scientific Papers, The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc., v. 4, p. 183-185.
Ufnar, D. F., Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzalez, L. A., Davis, J., and Atchley, S., 2005, Mid-Cretaceous evaporation rates estimated from pedogenic carbonate isotopic values in the Glen Rose Formation, Texas: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 357.
Ufnar, D. F., Ludvigson, G. A., Gonzalez, L.A ., Davis, J., and Atchley, S., 2005, Modeling enhanced aridity from pedogenic carbonates in the mid-Cretaceous dry belt--The upper Glen Rose Formation, Texas: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 5, p. 86.
Watney, W. L., Franseen, E. K., Byrnes, A. P., and Nissen, S., 2005, Contrasting styles and common controls on Middle Mississippian and Pennsylvanian carbonate platforms of the greater midcontinent: West Texas Geological Society, Bulletin, v. 45, no. 2, p. 26.
Watney, W. L., Franseen, E. K., Byrnes, A. P., and Nissen, S., 2005, Contrasting styles and common controls on Middle Mississippian and Upper Pennsylvanian carbonate reservoir strata in the upper midcontinent, U.S.A: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2005 Annual Convention, Abstracts Volume, p. A150.
Whipkey, C. E., Tibert, N. E., Cramer, K., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., and Tanko, S., 2005, Allogenic sea level cycles from the Cenomanian-Turonian Greenhorn marine cycle--New bulk carbonate and foraminiferal data from the Dakota, Graneros, and Greenhorn Formations in western Iowa: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 1, p. 70.
Open-file Reports
Mandel, R. D., 2005, Geoarcheological survey of the Cunningham Recycle Project Area, Pratt and Kingman counties, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2005-1, 19 p.
Mandel, R. D., 2005, Geomorphological investigation in support of the archeological survey of the proposed El Dorado, Kansas, wastewater treatment plant: Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2005-2, 20 p.
Newell, K. D., 2002, Preliminary field geology maps, Washington County, Kansas--Barnes, Hanover E, Hanover SE, Hanover SW, Hanover W, Greenleaf, Greenleaf SE, Kimeo, Linn, Linn SE, Linn SW, Morrowville, Palmer, Washington, Washington NE, Washington NW 1:24,000-scale quadrangles: Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2002-59.
West, R. R., and Sawin, R. S., 2005, Field geology maps, Geary County, Kansas (1:24,000 quadrangles --Dwight, Ogden, Swede Creek, and White City NE quadrangles): Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2005-09, 31 p., 4 maps (2.3 quads equivalent).
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