The Granite Ridge of Kansas strikes from north to south across the state, as a southward pitching anticlinal fold. Pennsylvanian beds rest across the truncated ridge. Along the axis, from Chase County south, Pennsylvanian beds rest upon the “siliceous” lime of Cambro-Ordovician age. On the flanks and in some of the saddles that cut across the axis, the Pennsylvanian rests upon a varying thickness of Mississippian limestones. Mississippian seas extended across the location of the present ridge from the Kansas-Oklahoma line to at least the south line of Chase County and probably for its entire extent.
In late Mississippian or...
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