County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Matfield (Blue Springs shale) Shale and Barneston (Florence limestone) Limestone well exposed on east side of new reroute of old U.S. Highway 40, south and east of GE-233, with base of Florence limestone at 352 m (1155 ft); one digital photo; near center of south line of SE1/4, Sec. 15, T.12S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. NOTE: G-8 (J-65) reported the sequence from the Fort Riley limestone to the Towanda limestone 0.25 miles due east of this site. Sections G-16 (Matfield Shale), section 3 of Griffin (1974) (Oketo shale), and section 13 of Miller (1992) (Barneston Limestone) are within Sec. 15, T.12S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas.

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