PROSSER: UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF SOUTHERN KANSAS. 1153, 
No. Feet. 
5. Btuish, ‘shaly limestone at top, containing Aviculopec- 50=3150 
ten. The greater part of the zone covered. 
4. Massive limestone, containing flint and abundant spec- 3==r100 
imens of Husudina, 3 inches in thickness. 
3. Yellowish shales and thin limestones, containing 10-97} 
Spirifer cameratus. 
2. Massive limestone, containing abundant specimens of 287 
Fusulina, about 2 feet thick. Nos. 2 to 4 exposed in 
the railroad cut 1% miles west of Reece. 
t. Mostly covered, but just west of Reece are thin, shaly 85=85 
limestones, which weather to a brownish red color. 
Reece railroad station. 
CORRELATION AND PaLronroLocy.—Nos. 13, 14, and 15, of the 
above section, which are well shown in the three railroad. cuts 
between the trestle and the summit, the western one being about 
one-half mile east of Summit station, are correlated with the Strong 
flint which forms the lower part of the Chase formation. ‘The sim- 
ilarity of these zones to those of the Strong flint. is very marked 
when this part of the section is compared with a complete one of 
the Strong flint as exposed in the Cottonwood or Neosho valleys to 
the north. In the section near Council Grove the lower layer. of 
limestone and flint has a thickness of seven and a half feet, then 
there are twenty-one and a half feet of light gray limestones and 
rather coarse yellowish shales, in the upper part of which are 
abundant fossils; above these is a heavy limestone containing an 
abundance of coarse flint, ten feet in thickness, which is capped by 
a massive gray limestone three feet thick.? This gives a thickness 
of forty-two feet for the Strong limestones and flint near Council 
Grove, while in the Reece section the thickness is fifty feet. In 
places the upper layer of flinty limestone contains only a small 
quantity of flint and constitutes a massive ledge of light gray lime- 
stone. This stratum frequently forms a prominent outcrop near 
1 At the time of my visit these shales were hastily measured; but since then Prof. 
Wooster has sent me a section of the cut in which the thickness for the shaly zone 
foots a Tfeet. The section is as follows: 
No, 
10. Buff limestone, four layers; a fey 
Oe SUE SEATON dW Niawrytedie cane Yagil vss 
8 Carbonaceous shule. 2 
7. Bull, shaly limestone 1 6 
6. Blue shale, full of fossils... t 4 
5 Butt limestone, one layer. IOAN 1 9 
er BOT CAUCAY SOUS SMOG Way nich vowgn cegdoow oe 9 
8) BUT UUM LIVES TON Gis i ho vn dv Ae Oa G 1 8 
2 Dark shale, buff on weathered surface; no fos Stes | 
1. Bult limestone, top layer is blue and full of Pus Nd.. en 
In this section Nos. 1 and 10 correspond to Nos. 2 and 4 of my section, while-Nos. 2 
to 9 ure included in my No.3. 
2 Jour. Geol., vol. iti, p. 773. 
