County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Doyle (Towanda limestone) Shale exposed in road ditch on east side of Walla Walla Road, with base of Towanda limestone at 373 m (1224 ft); one digital photo; near center of west line of Sec. 34, T.11S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. Sequence from Barneston (Florence limestone) Limestone to Doyle (Towanda limestone) Shale was measured along west side of U.S. Highway 77 approximately 200 ft due east of GE-245 as follows: Oketo = 1.7 m (5.6 ft), Fort Riley = 9.9 m (35.2 ft), Holmesville = 4 m (12.4 ft), and Towanda = 1.8 m (6.0+ ft); six digital photos as follows: one of Oketo-Fort Riley contact, one of rim rock, one of top of Fort Riley, two of Holmesville, and one of upper Holmesville and Towanda. Griffin (1974) (measured section 2) measured and described 2.52 m (8.3 ft) of Oketo on east side of U.S. Highway 77 at this site.

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