County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Barneston (Oketo shale and Fort Riley limestone) Limestone and lower Doyle Shale exposed in road cut on east side of U.S. Highway 77, with base of rim rock at 360 m (1181 ft); one digital photo; approximately 100 ft north of center of NW1/4, Sec. 22, T.11S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. Griffin (1974) (measured section 1) measured and described 3.73 m (12.2 ft) of Oketo shale on the east side of U.S. Highway 77 but apparently located it incorrectly; the sequence is in the NW1/4, SE1/4, SE1/4 of Sec. 22.

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