County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Doyle (Holmesville shale) Shale and Barneston (Fort Riley limestone) Limestone exposed approximately 0.25 mile northwest of GE-262 with sequence that overlaps and is below that at GE-262 (see graphic section); top of Fort Riley limestone at 353 m (1157 ft); five digital photos, one of all exposed beds, one of surface with molds of bivalves, one of the lower beds, one of the middle beds, and one of the upper beds; center SW1/4, NW1/4, Sec. 29, T.10S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas. This sequence is only exposed because water level in lake is very low.

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