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DIRECTION OF INCLINATION. 
The upper surface of the Mississippian floor dips to the west 
and northwest. Along the southern line of the state, from 
Galena to Caney, the dip is about twenty-five feet to the mile 
and probably a little greater than this southwest. 
In a northerly direction the inclination gradually decreases, 
so that in a line from Galena to Kansas City it is not more than 
one and a half feet to the mile. The Mississippian has been 
reached by wells in many places in the interval between Caney 
and Kansas City, making it possible to study this surface 
throughout the entire distance. 
The Pennsylvanian Series. 
The Coal Measures of eastern Kansas have been studied in 
such great detail that we are now able for the first time to 
give a complete exposition of every individual limestone and 
shale formation from the base of the Coal Measures up to the 
Burlingame limestone, and, with equal accuracy, by grouping 
the thinner formations, can give the formations from the 
Burlingame limestone upward to the Wreford limestone. 
Prosser® has finally decided, from paleontological evidence, 
that the Wreford should be used as a division line between the 
Upper Coal Measures and the Permian. 
The following generalized vertical section shows the suc- 
cession of individual formations as above mentioned. To 
make these the more easily understood a drawing has been 
made to represent the geological column from the Mississip- 
pian to the top of the Cretaceous, as shown in plate I. 
Plate VIIa, VIIb and VIIc is a surface map of the eastern 
part of the state, showing in colors the outcropping lines of the 
principal limestone formations. Of course the interbedded 
shales will outcrop along the surface areas between the lime- 
stone outcropping lines. On this map are also marked the 
location of various vertical sections, made approximately at 
right angles to the outcropping lines. It is assumed that the 
observer is situated beyond the state line to the south and is 
looking north. The right-hand end of the drawing, therefore, 
is to the east and the left-hand to the west. The individual 
limestones and shales are represented as they are found in 
place. 5 
Beginning at the south side of the state, plate VIII, figure 1, 
5. Prosser, Chas. S. 
