County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2005

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Barneston (Florence limestone through upper beds of Fort Riley limestone) Limestone with the upper Matfield (Blue Springs shale) Shale exposed in road cut on north side of Interstate Highway 70, with base of Florence limestone at 384 m (1260 ft) based on a KDOT profile; section 4 of Griffin (1974) is just east of this site; one digital photo; approximately 200 ft east of center of west line, NW1/4, SW1/4, Sec. 30, T.11S., R.7E., Geary Co., Kansas.

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