BROADHEAD — CARBONIF. ROCKS OF EASTERN KANSAS. 487 



Sec. A- 



19. 



10 feet of shales, the lower red. 

 10 " rough limestone. 



27 " shales with thin shaly limestone beds. 

 4 " flag-like limestone bed; a good building-rock. 

 8 '• shelly buflf magnesian limestone. 

 4 " shaly Fiisulina limestone. 

 4 " cherty limestone ; abounds in Ftisulina cylindrical the 



fossils often appearing in relief; the chert of a deep blue. 

 18 feet limestone and shales abounding in Ftisuli7ia cylindrica. 



2 " drab magnesian limestone. 



28 " shaly sandstone. 

 4 " gray magnesian limestone, upper part buff, abounding 



in Productus semireticulatus. 

 17 feet shales with a buff limestone at lower part. 

 40 " probably all shales. 



3 " hard rough sandstone. 

 8 " sandy shales. 

 I " limestone. 



20 " sandy shales. 



No. I of this section abounds in numerous fossils nicely weath- 

 ered out, including small corals {Ckcetetes? and Rho7nbopord) in 

 upper part, Productus nebrascensis^ P. semireticulatus^ Meek- 

 ella striato-costata^ Chonetes graiiulifera^ Terebratula bovi- 

 des, Athyris subtilita^ Schizodus rossicus, Myalina peratte- 

 nuata^ Toldia subscitula, and Nautilus eccentricus. 



All above No. 12 of this section is undoubtedly of Permian 

 type and the strata may be considered Permian, and all below 

 No. 13 undoubtedly belong to the true coal measures (Up. Coal 

 Meas.). 



The following is a section observed west of Lazette, Cowley 

 county, which includes some strata above those of the above 

 section : 



Sec. B— I. 84 feet shaly limestone and shales from hilltop. 



2. 7 •' chert and some limestone, a well marked bed; it is 



often seen strewn over the surface northeast of Lazette. 

 Pinna peracuta is generally found : a Phillipsia was also 

 recognized. 



3. 80 feet shaly limestone beds. 



4. 4 " of good building-rock, a buft" limestone. 



5. 5 " limestone in thin layers, contains same fossils as No. 



2 of last section (A). 



6. II feet of shales, upper red, the lower blue. 



7. I foot of limestone. 



8. 17 feet shales and nodular limestone. 



