County: Geary

Date: Jan-March-2007

Photographer: Robert S. Sawin/KGS

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Short description: Doyle (Gage shale) Shale and Winfield (Stovall limestone and lower Grant shale) Limestone exposed in road cuts on both sides of Kansas Highway 244, with base of the Stovall limestone at 375 m (1230 ft) on the north side of highway; Gage shale contains a thin limestone bed approximately 2 m (6 ft) below base of Winfield (Stovall limestone) Limestone; one digital photo of the base of the Stovall limestone; approximately 200 ft north and 200 ft west of center of south line SW1/4, Sec. 30, T.11S., R.5E., Geary Co., Kansas.

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