Loiver Cretaceous of Kansas. — Gould. 27 
is totally wanting. The thickness of both the Kiowa c'nd the 
Dakota is greater than in the Belvidere locality. 
b. The Kiozva Shales. 
I. Stratigraphy. 
No attempt has been made to subdivide the Kiowa. For 
general sections of the formation the reader is referred to the 
reports of professor Cragin*and professor Prosser.f The fol- 
lowing section, here given for the first time, was made in 
August, 1897, on Cat creek, two miles north of Messing's ranch 
and fifteen miles north of Ashland. It may be taken as a 
typical Clark county section v/ith the exception that the upper 
part is rather more arenaceous than usual. 
Feet 
Tertiary to top of hill ±50 
Sandy shale 20 
Sandy shale with Gryphsea and other invertebrates i 
Thinly laminated shaly sandstone, barren of fossils 2 
Black to yellow fossiliferous sandy shale 18 
Hard conglomeratic sandstone with many fossils 2 
Yellowish gray sandstone slightly fossiliferous 10 
Black shales, typical papyraceous Kiowa, somewhat fossil- 
iferous 35 
Yellowish to brownish soft sandstone 2 
Black shales with yellow sandy streak above 10 
Very hard gray limestone containing great numbers of 
Kiowa fossils J/2-1 
Black paper shales 6 
Red-beds ±25 
+ 182 
The noticeable features of this section are numbers 3 and 
5, also the relatively large proportion of sandy material near 
the top. No. 3 is found in numerous places in Clark county, 
especially along Blufif creek. It is evidently the ledge men- 
tioned by professor Prosser in his discussion of the region,;]; 
but his conclusions that the lower part of the section repre- 
sents the Cheyenne do not seem to the writer to be tenable. 
The entire Clark county locality exhibits nnich more of 
*Bul. W. Col. Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. II, pp. 77-79, 1890. 
tUni. Geo). Survey of Kansas, vol. II, pp. 149-174, 1897. 
. JLoc. cit., pp. 153-154- 
