Surficial Geology and Stratigraphy of Phillips County, Kansas, with Emphasis on the Quaternary Period |
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A. R. Leonard alluvial Ash Hollow member basal bentonite Bignell Loess Brady soil calcareous Carlile Shale central Kansas clay Cretaceous Crete Formation eolian exposed exposure Feng fluvial deposits Fork Solomon River fossil Fredlund Frye and A. R. Frye and Leonard Gilman Canyon Formation glacial Grand Island gray Hays Limestone Member Hill Chalk Member Holocene horizon Illinoian Inoceramus Johnson and Arbogast Kansas Geological Survey Kansas River Kirwin terrace late Wisconsin lentils limonite Logan Loveland Loveland Loess Martin massive molluskan Nebraska Niobrara Chalk North Fork Solomon northeastern Kansas occur Ogallala Formation outcrop overlying paleosol Pearlette pedogenesis Peoria loess Phillips County Pierre Shale Pleistocene Prairie Dog Prairie Dog Creek pre-Illinoian quarry Quaternary radiocarbon ages Richmond and Fullerton roadcut sand and gravel Sangamon soil Sappa silica-cemented sandstone silt Smoky Hill Chalk stratigraphic thickness Total section measured type section upper volcanic ash W. C. Johnson yr B.P. zone