County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2006

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Doyle (Towanda limestone) Shale exposed in road cut on north side of Tri County Road, with base of Towanda limestone at 408 m (1340 ft); lower Towanda limestone is 1.2 to 1.5 m (4 to 5 ft) of thin, platy to medium-bedded limestone that is vuggy and rotten in lower part, thicker middle bed is an opthalmid foraminiferal carbonate, upper beds are very thin, platy, and earthy; one digital photo; southeast corner, Sec. 32, T.13S., R.6E., Geary Co., Kansas.

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