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Photographs From
The Geological Survey of Kansas.
Conducted under authority of the Board of Regents
of the University of Kansas.
Vol. II.

By Erasmus Haworth and Assistants.

Topeka: The Kansas State Printing Co.
J. K. Hudson, State Printer, 1897.

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Physiography of Western Kansas, by Erasmus Haworth

  Plate I. Source of an Arroyo in the tertiary of Meade County (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate II. Plate II. Side wall of an arroyo in the tertiary of Meade County (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate III. Along the Arkansas River, near Dodge City. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate IV. Tertiary "mortar-beds" bluff near Dodge City. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate V. Dakota Sandstone bluffs along Union Pacific Railroad, six miles west of Brookville. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate VI. Dakota Sandstone bluffs along Union Pacific Railroad, six miles west of Brookville. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate VII. Castle Rock, Niobara Chalk, Trego County. (Photographed by Williston, 1894.)
Plate VIII. Lone Butte, Butte Creek, Logan County. (Photographed by Williston.)

The Upper Permian and The Lower Cretaceous, by Charles S. Prosser.

  Plate IX. Basin Sandstone Resting on Red-Beds on Sand Creek, near Cash City, Clark County. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate X. Distant Tertiary hills, Norton. (Photographed by Haworth in 1896.)
Plate XI. Merrill Gypsum Quarry, on Gypsum Creek, Marion Formation, Saline County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XII. Dakota Sandstone on top of Twin Hill, McPherson County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XIII. Northern end of Gypsum Hills, near Medicine Lodge. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XIV. Flower-Pot Mound, "Red-Beds," eight miles northwest of Medicine Lodge. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XV. Eroded ledge of Cheyenne Sandstone in Hells-Half-Acre, western side of Barber County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896)
Plate XVI. Contact of Cheyenne Sandstone and "Red-Beds" showing unconformity, western side Barber County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XVII. Cross-bedding in Cheyenne Sandstone, near Belvidere. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XVIII. Osage Rock above Belvidere, Cheyenne Sandstone. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XIX. Cliff at the entrance of the "Amphitheater" on Bluff Creek, fifteen miles north of Ashland, Clark County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XX. Eastern side of the "Amphitheater." (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XXI. Tertiary cliffs north of Ashland. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)

The Dakota Sandstone.

  Plate XXII. Mt. Pisgah. A tertiary butte, eight miles northwest of Ashland. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XXIII. Big Basin Sandstone, in the Big Basin, western side Clark County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)
Plate XXIV. Dakota Sandstone at top of Soldier Cap Mount, Saline, County. (Photographed by Prosser, 1896.)

The Upper Cretaceous of Kansas, by W. N. Logan, with an Introduction by Erasmus Haworth.

  Plate XXVIII. Quarry in Niobara Chery, one mile northeast of Norton. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XXIX. Niobara bluff capped with chert, at Old Mill, Norton. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XXXIII. Outcropping of Niobara Chalk, Plum Creek, Gove County. (Photographed by Williston.) From Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. XIII.
Plate XXXIV. Niobara Bluffs, Gove County. (Photographed by Williston.)

The Kansas Nobrara Cretaceous, by S. W. Williston.

  Plate XXXV. One of Monument Rocks, Niobrara, Smoky Hill Valley, Gove County. (Photographed by Williston.) From Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. XIII.

Physical Properties of the Tertiary, by Erasmus Haworth.

  Plate XXXVI. POLLICIPES HAWORTHI WILL. X 3.4. (Photographed by Williston, 1896.)
Plate XXXVIII. Cross-bedding in tertiary sandstone, the "Mortar-Beds," North Bank of Arkansas River, eleven miles west of Dodge City. Total length about fifteen feet. (Photographed by Haworth, 1895.)
Plate XXXIX. Stratified "Volcanic Ash" in the Tertiary near Meade. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XL. "Mortar Beds" on the Uplands at head of Arroyo in northwestern Clark County. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XLI. Concretionary nodules of calcium carbonate from the Tertiary of Logan County, natural size. (Photographed by Tucker, 1896.)
Plate XLII. Concretionary masses of calcium carbonate in Clay, Sheridan County. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XLIII. Weakly cemented sand in a landslide, south side Cimarron River near Englewood. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)
Plate XLIV. White Tertiary bluffs in inclined strata, south bank of Cimarron River. (Photographed by Haworth, 1896.)

The McPherson Equus Beds, by Erasmas Haworth and J. W. Beede.

  Plate XLVII. Alces, species undetermined. From the loess near Kansas City, fifty feet below surface. (Photographed by Silliston, 1896.)

The Pleistocene of Kansas, by S. W. Williston.

  Fig. 12. Mylodon Sp. External view of fibula.
Fig. 13. Mylodon Sp. Internal view of fibula.
Plate XXV. Map of the United States showing Cretaceous, Tertiary and More Recent Geologic Formations. Copied from Reconnaissance Geologic map of United States by W. J. McGee, accompanying Fourth Annual Report of Director U. S. Geological Survey.
Plate XXVI. A Geological Cross Section from North to South Along the West End of Kansas Showing Relationships of Different Formations to Each Other.
Plate XXVII. Vertical Sections of the Cretaceous for North Half of Kansas.
Fig. 1. Relative position and average thickness of Upper Cretaceous.
Fig. 2. Details of Dakota and Benton.
Plate XXX. Geologick Sections, by W. N. Logan - Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.
Plate XXXI. Geologic Sections, by W. N. Logan - Fig. 1 Beloit to Tipton; and Fig. 2. Brookville to Little Timber.
Plate XXXII. Geologic Sections, by W. N. Logan - Fig 1 St. Francis to Arickaree River; Fig 2.
Plate XXXVII. Geologic Sections, by C. S. Prosser - Fig. 1 Winfield to Indian Creek in Clark Co.; Fig 2. Abilene to Soldier Cap Mound Through Salina.
Plate XLIV. A Geologic Map of Southwest Comanche Area, by Charles S. Prosser.
Plate XLV. Geologic Map of McPherson and Vicinity, by C. S. Prosser and J. W. Beede.
Plate XLVI. Geologic Sections Across the McPherson Equus Beds Area, by J. W. Beede.
Plate XLVIII. A Rconnnaissance Geologic Map of Kansas, Compiled principally from original surveys, by Erasmus Haworth and Assistants.


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