Preliminary Notice on the Correlation of the 
Meek and Marcou Section at Nebraska 
City, Nebraska, with the Kansas 
Coal Measures.” 
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Contribution from the Paleontological | aboratory, No. 38. 
BY J. W. BEEDE. 
The appearance of Meek and Hayden’s Final Report of the U. 
S. Geological Survey of Nebraska practically settled the prolonged 
Meek-Marcou controversy concerning the age of the rocks at Ne- 
braska City, and showed them to be of the typical Upper Coal 
Measures of the west. Professor Prosser, after an extended study 
of the Upper Coal Measures and Permian in Kansas, visited Ne- 
_ braska and studied the relation of the Upper Coal Measures there 
to those of Kansas, taking the Cottonwood limestone above as a 
basis. He locates the Cottonwood limestone four miles west of 
Auburn, Nebraska, about 365 feet above the Missouri river, and 
refers the Nebraska City rocks, provisionally, to the lower half of 
the Wabaunsee formation; stating that these rocks have great re- 
semblance to the rocks of that formation as exposed above Topeka, 
Kansas, on the Kansas river. + 
During a short visit at Nebraska City the writer secured nearly 
all of Meek’s species from that locality and Otoe (now Minersville) 
and the strata of the place were examined as carefully as time 
would permit. As Professor Prosser had stated, the rocks bore a 
remarkable resemblance to those near Topeka. Their lithological 
character, their succession, their fossils and the grouping and preser- 
vation of the fossils, bear a striking resemblance to the rocks above 
and below the Topeka (Osage) coal. At the top of the section 
there is a calcareous sandstone underlaid by bluish or drab shales, 
~ *For a complete discussion of the subject see the forthcoming Transactions, (vol, 
16,) of the Kansas Academy of Science. 
*Jour, Geol, Jan.-March, 1897, p. 1, et sec. 
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