BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 6, pp. 29-54 November 24, 1894 



KANSAS RIVER SP]CTION OF THE PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS 

 AND PERMIAN ROCKS OF KANSAS* 



BY CHARLES S. PROSSER 



{Read before the Society August 15, ISDJ/) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 30 



Review of previous work 30 



Meek and Hayden's exploration of 1858 30 



Swallow's report 31 



The Manhattan geologic section 32 



Broadhead's section 32 



Prosser's section 32 



Comparison of faunas 33 



Fauna at foot of Blue mount ' 33 



Fauna of bed 37 of Meek and Hayden's section 34 



Mount Prospect exposure of Meek and Hayden's bed 34 35 



Base of Swallow's Permian 36 



Bed 27 of Meek and "Hayden 36 



" Dry bone limestone " of Swallow 36 



Tlie Manhattan stone 37 



Its thickness and general characteristics 37 



Bed 24 of Meek and Hayden 37 



*' Fasulimi limestone " of Swallow 38 



Fauna of the shales above the Manhattan stone 38 



Fauna of the Cottonwood shale 39 



Correlation of the Manhattan with the Cottonwood stone 40 



Dip of the Manhattan stone 41 



The Mill Creek geologic section 41 



Buffalo Mound section and fauna 41 



McFarland section and comparison of its fauna with that of Buffalo Mound. 42 



Alma section 44 



Its thickness and fauna 44 



Correlation of the Alma with the Manhattan stone 44 



First flint bed above the Alma stone 45 



The geologic section of the upper Kansas river 45 



General characteristics 45 



* Published by permission of the Director of the United States Geological Survey. 

 V -Bull. Gbol. Soc. Am., Vol. 0, 1804. (29) 



