County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Barneston (Florence limestone) Limestone and upper Matfield (Blue Springs shale) Shale exposed in road cut on west side of Webster Avenue in Junction City, Kansas, with base of Florence limestone at 358 m (1174 ft); one digital photo; approximately 100 ft east of center of NE1/4, Sec. 14, T.12S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. According to Chaplin (1988) the type locality of the Fort Riley limestone is 0.25 miles southeast of GE-231.

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