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The dark quartzite is newer than the white chert, as is proven by its con- 

 taining fragments of white chert. The breccia is cemented by silicious matter, 

 and by sulphuret of zinc. 



Finally, the following is about the succession of minerarphenomena : 



1. Geological period. Formation of limestone and white chert. 



2. The rocks were fractured. 



-3. The limestones were partially disintegrated, and sometimes dolomized. 

 Some ores were probably deposited. 



4. Some of the ch^rt was altered to quartzite. Ores deposited. Cement- 

 ing of angular fragments of rock into a breccia. 



5. Deposits of sulphurets of iron, oxides of iron. Deposits of calcite and 

 dolomite. 



From the above we find a certain resemblance to other mines of the south- 

 west, but the Carterville mines are remarkable for excess of zinc ore, and small 

 quantity of lead ore. Neither carbonates nor silicious ores were observed. On 

 one specimen of zinc blende there was observed a minute stellate deposit which 

 may be silicate of zinc. 



LIST OF FOSSILS IN KANSAS CITY AND VICINITY. 



WM. H. R. LYKINS. 



The fossils of Kansas City are found in the rocks of the Upper Coal Meas- 

 ures of the Carboniferous system. It is not presumed that the following is a full 

 and correct list of all our fossils, but only such of them as we have been able to 

 identify with the means at hand ; and probably a few of the names we have given 

 will have to be corrected in the future. The march of improvement is rapidly 

 obliterating many of our best localities, and it has been thought best to put upon 

 record what we have found; for instance, the Conularia crustula, a very rare 

 fossil in the U. C. M., has only been found in a very limited space, and that will 

 have soon disappeared. We have also quite a number of species and varieties 

 yet to be described and named, especially in the Cephalopoda, Fishes and Plants. 

 The Plants we have not attempted to name, as they would require a specialist in 

 that particular branch of paleontology. The many railroads centering here bring 

 rock-ballast from long distances out on their roads. These rocks often contain 

 fossils not found in this city or vicinity, and a stranger finding them and referring 

 to our list would think we had been very careless in overlooking them. The 

 beautiful litde fossil Synirilasma hemiplicata is found quite plentiful in the ballast 

 of the A., T, & S. F. road in the city, but none has been found in place 

 nearer than Eudora, Kansas, about twenty-five miles distant. Such fossils we 

 ha\ e marked with an asterisk (*) when they have not been found in our local 

 rocks. Hardly any one collection in the city will be found to contain all the 

 fossils on the list but all that we have named have been found here and in the 

 rr.m ediate vicinity. 



