74 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
and which Professor Cope calls “the Pleistocene sands.”! This ident- 
ification is not simply conjecture, for from an abandoned sand 
quarry to the west of the city vertebrate fossils have been obtained 
which Professor Cope identified as Hlephas primigenius and Bos 
crampianus Cope2. From the sand quarry on the eastern side of 
Wellington, Professor Cope identified a posterior molar of Hlephas 
primigenius. 
On the creek a short distance west of Mayfield is bluish sandy 
shale in places, while the soil is decidedly red, probably colored by 
leaching from the Red-Beds to the northwest. On a small branch 
of Beaver creek, one mile north and three miles east of Milan (north- 
west quarter section 14, Ryan township) is an exposure of a few 
feet of the Wellington shales. 
Section three miles east of Milan. 
No. Feet. 
4 Soil. 
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Za Maroonaceillaceoussiale shia unten iis ieee eran 2 —34 
Veluwe yaronlla ce oust sitall @ Site iis uss lies een coc aaa 13—14 
to the creek level. 
The shales of the lower part are thicker, light gray in color and contain 
small quantities of Malachite. 
On the road one fourth mile west of Beaver creek are red some- 
what sandy shales, similar to those seen on the ridge east of the 
creek. Along Shore creek to the west of Milan are reddish, rather 
sandy deposits regarded as in the lower part of the well known Red- 
Beds, the lower part of which Professor Cragin has called the Harper 
sandstone. This opinion agrees with an early one held by Professor 
Oragin; for in 1885 he said that west of Wellington he first saw “the 
red sandstone of the Dakota [as he then called the Red-beds] at 
Milan. It also appears at certain points in the Chikaskia river®.” 
Mr. Adams also spoke of Argonia in the Chikaskia river as the east- 
ern limit of the Red-Beds.4 From this locality westward toward 
pu ecumhes Academy Natural Science, Philadelphia, Pt. I, January-April 1894, 
DP. 0/, 66. 
2 Loc. cit., p. 68 and Journal Academy Natural Science, Philadelphia, Vol. IX, 
pt. 4, 1895, pp. 458, 456. 
3 FEF. W. Cragin, Bulletin Washburn College Laboratory Natural History, Vol. 1, 
April 1895, p. 86, Topeka. 
4 University Geological Survey, Kansas, Vol. I, p. 29. 
