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7 . Z Elevation 
No. Thickness. Strata. Hise nealis 
1 1 foot. Limestone: jacc.e ree mentee ae Meee an ener 104 feet. 
2 5 feet. Shalev ic. fee awe sees Be CER ee ie 103 oa 
3 2 oe Limestone: 220% (ssa te sok sees oe en 98 ee 
4 4% ‘* Shales yon ce ale sey ee eee 96 he 
5 3% ‘' Dimestoneenoeeiast cle eae cs ae ase eee SRG) 
6 37 nie Shailo sce ce wcbee ware tas tines ae eee ree 88 Fe 
7 ner oes DAMOsStonent ese occa ete ene aoe, ee 51 He 
8 1 pe Shales ees fate ats coded Bae eo ee ah 49+ ‘* 
9 3% inches; ‘Coals a cook se scbhcias coe eee ua Luise cee eee 48+ ‘* 
10 21 feet. SHallo eee ena Ce eh ee nse eee 48 
11 6% ‘ TAMBSEGNO. ees < Cah cn leeny waweneebunetsaitneee 27 ie 
12 15% «‘* Shales oo ee ee eee eee ln eee 20% 
Shale and river bottom land join. . 22 sccnnncancecsnneneintn see ncee 5 
Santa. Keidepot' at Madison: soon) cc get o con cee ccloee rice racaeeeeten = 3 
The depths of the Mississippian below sea-level are: At Neodesha, 135 feet; at 
Fredonia, 310 feet: at Fall River, 430 feet.* At Toronto, a well 1452 feet deep 
did not quite reach the Mississippian.t At Madison, hard rock, supposed to be 
the Mississippian, was struck at 820 feet below sea-level. The dip toward Madi- 
son is therefore about ten feet per mile from Fall River; eleven feet per mile from 
Fredonia; and twelve feet per mile from Neodesha. The dip from La Harpe is 
between seventeen and eighteen feet per mile. From Ottawa it is about sixteen 
feet per mile. 
At Madison the Cherokee shales are 460 feet thick, while at Toronto they are 
more than 372 feet thick. The Pleasanton shales are much heavier at Toronto 
than at Madison. Above this to the top of the Iola limestone these two wells 
differ very little. Above the Iola a bed of shale 104 feet thick at Toronto cor- 
responds to a bed of sandstone 172 feet thick at Madison. The limestone above 
these beds is 110 feet below the surface at Toronto, but is the uppermost lime- 
stone in this well. I desire in the future to locate the outcropping of the re- 
maining strata of the Madison well along the Verdigris river, and prepare a 
section along the Verdigris from the state line, showing the wells at Neodesha, 
Fredonia, Fall River, Toronto, and Madison. 
I have put up samples of the various strata to be deposited with the Kansas 
Academy of Science for preservation. 
ON THE CORRELATION OF THE COAL MEASURES OF KANSAS 
AND NEBRASKA. . 
BY J. W. BEEDE, LAWRENCE. 
Read before the Academy December 29, 1898. 
Since the appearance of Meek and Hayden’s Final Report of the United States 
Geological Survey of Nebraska in 1872, owing to the thoroughness of discussion 
and the care in the descriptions and figures of a large number of typical Upper ° 
Coal Measures fossils, it has become the basis for the identification of fossils of 
this formation of the West. On account of this fact and the great care with 
which the stratigraphy of the Missouri river bluffs in Nebraska was worked out, 
it is of great stratigraphic importance as well, forming, as it were, the type sec- 
tion of the Upper Coal Measures strata of the Missouri valley, leaving only the 
limitations to be worked out by later geologists. 
Professor Prosser gives an admirable review of the history of the geology of 
Otoe county in the January number of the Journal of Geology for 1897, to 
see ee ee eee 
* Univ. Geol. Survey, vol. I, p. 148. 
+ Record of C. L. Bloom, driller. 
