County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Barneston (Fort Riley limestone rim rock) Limestone exposed in road cut on north side of Kansas Highway 57 at Franks Hill, with base of rim rock at 384 m (1260 ft); one digital photo; near center of west line SW1/4, NE1/4, NW1/4, Sec. 9, T.12S., R.6E, Geary Co., Kansas; location of the Fort Riley limestone recorded in G-14 and J-67. Griffin, 1974 (measured section 13) described 4.34 m (14 ft) of Oketo shale in SE1/4, NW1/4, Sec. 9, T.12S., R.6E., Geary Co., Kansas, in a road cut on the north side of Kansas Highway 57, 0.5 miles southeast of intersection of Kansas Highway 57 and Interstate Highway 70.

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