County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Doyle (Towanda limestone) Shale well exposed in road cuts on both sides of U.S. Highway 77, with base of Towanda limestone at 370 m (1214 ft); one digital photo; approximately 200 ft north of center of S1/2, SW1/4, Sec. 15, T.11S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. Measured section 110A of Mazzullo et al., 1997, is a composite based of road cut exposures from the NW1/4, Sec. 22 and the SW1/4, Sec. 15, T.11S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas.

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