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sowed section of ae Rocks of Kansas Valley from the wo a down, 80 as to 
nelude portions of the upper Coal measu 
1, Red, brown, and yellowish, rather conemty grained sandstone, often Page 
inl “Suge and containing many ferruginous concretions; also, fossil 
wood and m eaves of dicotyledgnous pe some of which 1 belong to exist- 
ing genera, and inn to genera peculiar to the Cretaceous epoch. Liaiity, 
summit of Sm 
2. Whitish, <— fine aa a sandstone, underlaid by bluish 
purple and ash colored clays. e as preceding 
3. Long, pantie slope, with ecapionel ‘oaleteb. of ash-colored red, blue, and 
whitish, more or less laminated clays, with thin s of sandstone. Locality 
same as ceiling, and extending down at places rasa or quite to the bluffs ar 
ill 2ever ; thickness about 
sandstone, with some lawyers of hard, light gray calcareous, do., ae 
both containing ferruginous coner enesion Locality, ‘bluffs Smoky Hill river, Se 
ow six miles above Grand Saline river. » Probably local, thickness seen abo 15 
5. Bluish, ight y , an lays, and soft claystones, with nets 
times a few thin layers of magnesian limestone many places these clays 
n traver » every direction by cracks, into which calcareo d ar 
gillaceous matter have found their way, and subsequently become consolidated 
ure yellowish limestone, which cross inter- 
rat -—~ — The red clays are usually less distinctly lam- 
inated, . = eous ma aes and often show ripple marks on me 
6. Light t gray, Fo RMSE and red clays, sometimes arenaceous, and oft 
traversed by cracks, filled with calcareous matter as in the bed above alter. 
nating w ith thin lasers and seams of gypsum Toe near mouth o; 
1, Rather compact amorphous white gypsum, yon near the base dissemi. 
tated.crystals, dark colored do. Locality same ax last». ov0 0-3. 
8, Alternations of ash-colored, more th: $8 Fae 2uus clays, with thin aca 
of gypsum shove. wards ioust part, thin layers ¥ claystor d 
laces soft magnesian cae ne. Locality same as last......+:00++ 60 
side of Smoky Hill river, ten or twelve miles below Solomon’s Fork... .seen 
“i Bluish, light gray, and red lamin sah cing with seams and beds of yel- 
subcune nilia ¢ bug 
id tear 8, eubtilita ; also Naut er Bakevellia parva, Leda su —* 
Toney ends and — mined species of Bellerophon, Murchisonia, ‘ 
a vo near Si oky | ul paki on high country south of Fort Riley, as we 
otton eseaeseoesener?® eoeonveree eeee 
pee limestone, in laye ers and snp some- 
. with bluish and other gttos clays, and con emya, 
ey lian net M. Siesels Base ri rophorus? subcuneatus, roakevellin pate 
8 a Euom ear E. rugosus; also, a Spirigera a ra 
iia, faye more — Orth isina umbraculum | ? 0. Poaceae sa 
~ ears aie prypeirt n mi ae we 00025 to 85 
ie Light gy t gayi zellaw. rather granular anciegey limestone, ‘ontaining 
f tes of A idaris; afew fragme Crin fe 
ee 8. inmates but perhaps distinct ; ane = apni 
ite above, thers Shwnardiana, O. umbraculum nity of Fort 
Forms distinct horizon near summit of es in vicinity 
h also seen on Cottonwood ere oe ae ginnkeries a 
Soft a us beds, 
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ly local. Kansas Falls. ..+++++- 5 
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