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Title: Underground waters of southwestern Kansas
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Haworth, Erasmus, 1855-1933
Subjects: Groundwater
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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to have been deposited by infiltrating water probably long afterthe Red Beds themselves were lifted into dry land. Salt is likewise scattered irregularly through the Red Beds. It isleached out by the water and is deposited along the salt marshes socommon in the Cimarron River Valley to the south of the State line.Probably the salt is irregularly disseminated throughout the material;possibly heavy deposits of rock salt may yet be found beneath thesurface, although no positive indication of such has yet been observed.It is certain, however, that in some way, while the Red Beds wereforming, conditions were favorable for the accumulation of salt to sogreat an extent that in the aggregate the amount deposited is veryconsiderable. Thus far no fossils of any kind have been found anywhere in theRed Beds within this State. Those of Texas have yielded fossils ofPermian character, and it is probable that they are of the same ageas those of Kansas, although they have not yet been positively shown
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baworth.) RED BEDS. 29 to be connected. Little true stratification can be rioted in the RedBeds in places where their principal component is day, but whensan as to form a sandstone, the beddingplanes arc more Btrongly marked. In the southeastern part of theMeade quadrangle, immediately al thesummil of the Red Beds, is atolerably well defined sandstone from :> to (i feet, in thickness, calledthe Basin sandstone, on account of its being so prominent in the wallsaround the great basin in (Mark County. At the southwesternmostexposure of the Red Beds al Odee this sandstone seems to be wanting,while the clay composing them is so entirely free from sand that nogril can be detected by the teeth. This absence of local stratification is almost Lost sight of when wecontemplate the Red Beds as covering wide areas. They form amarked horizon between the Comanche or Dakota above and theblack shales and bnft limestone of the Permian below. Through allwestern Kan

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