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Geologic units in Barton county, Kansas

Alluvium (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel

Lithology: gravel; sand; silt; clay or mud

Dakota Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

White, gray, red, brown and tan kaolinitic claystone, mudstone, shale and siltstone interbedded with grayish to yellowish brown thick lenticular sandstone beds. It also contains lignite and sandstone is commonly well cemented with iron oxide and calcite.

Lithology: claystone; mudstone; shale; siltstone; sandstone; coal

Greenhorn Limestone and Graneros Shale (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late) at surface, covers 15 % of this area

Greenhorn FM- thin bedded gray, chalky limestone and calcareous shale. Graneros Shale- fissile, noncalcareous, gray shale locally contains sandstone and siltstone beds.

Lithology: limestone; shale; sandstone; siltstone

Dune Sand (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene Holocene) at surface, covers 11 % of this area

unconsolidated dune sand

Lithology: sand

Carlile Shale (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late) at surface, covers 20 % of this area

chalky shale with bentonite and thick chalk beds, dark gray fissile shale containing septarian concretions, and fine-grained sandstone.

Lithology: shale; limestone; sandstone

Loess (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene Holocene) at surface, covers 20 % of this area

eolian silts

Lithology: silt

Alluvium (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene Holocene) at surface, covers 28 % of this area

unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel

Lithology: gravel; sand; silt; clay or mud

Kiowa Shale and Cheyenne Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Kiowa Shale or FM- light -gray to black illitic shale with thin coquinoidal limestone beds at the base; sandstone lenses common. Cheyenne Sandstone- massive to crossbedded, light-gray to buff fine-grained sandstone with lenses of gray sandy shale and conglomerate.

Lithology: sandstone; shale; limestone; conglomerate