...Henry A. Ley © 1926 American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved 1926 American Association of Petroleum Geologists The presence of Mississippi lime west of the Granite Ridge in Kansas has been questioned at times. Deep drilling has definitely established its...

... not discussed in detail. H. A. Ley 1 in 1926 presented three short notes in which he stated that the “Mississippi lime” had been found to be present west of the granite ridge in western Butler, Sedgwick, and Harvey counties; and that the cherty horizon in the Sheridan well, based on well-to-well...

... in the other areas of this district. There is a possibility that the Blackwell field is a continuation of or in alignment with the so-called granite ridge of Kansas. During the past year oil production has been discovered below the Mississippi lime in Elk and Chautauqua counties near the towns...

..., deposition, and distribution of chert from the finding that distinctive chert zones of the Boone limestone of Missouri extend for distances of 150–200 miles toward the west into central Kansas. Subdividing the “Mississippi lime” of all parts of Kansas and adjacent areas should furnish needed data to make...

... only water and some gas. Distribution of oil in the “Mississippi lime” east of the Granite ridge. In that area, oil pools and oil showings in the upper part of the “Mississippi lime” are found mainly in the areas of pre-Chattanooga Simpson outcrop. The “Mississippi lime” pools extend eastward from...

... also should be much more common than it is in the top of the “Mississippi lime” throughout the Cherokee basin east of the Granite ridge, for the Cherokee is everywhere in contact with the top of that limestone, which is an eroded surface and is porous in many places. In the northern pools west...

...,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , Vol. 11, No. 1 (January, 1927), pp. 49-55. 9 A. R. Denison, “Discussion of Early Pennsylvanian Sediments West of the Nemaha Granite Ridge,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , Vol. 10 (June, 1926), p. 636. 10 J. S. Barwick, “The Salina Basin of North...

... of a prominent Mississippi lime ridge, and as far as we know this is the only occurrence of a productive sand body lying to the east of a lime high in this general area. The extent of this sand body will probably define the limits of the field. Ordovician siliceous lime production will probably bear the same...

... warping due to folding and differential settling, it is quite possible that the original relief was somewhat less than 200 feet, maximum. At no place outside of the granite ridge area has a “Mississippi lime” high been found high enough to cut out the Bartlesville sand, although in places the sand has...

...-log correlation, extending from the “granite ridge” westward into this area, places the oil-bearing cherty zone in the Fort Scott (“Oswego”) horizon. Locally, over the axis of the “granite ridge” in Chase County, a part of the Upper Cambro-Ordovician, all of the Mississippian, and a part of the lowest...

... when deposited. In areas of marked pre-Cherokee relief and in areas where folding has been intermittent throughout Pennsylvanian time, isopach maps of the Cherokee very closely resemble structure contour maps of the upper surface of the Mississippi lime. As the pre-Pennsylvanian ridges are generally...

..., and just west of Cottonwood Falls. Decker 3 has measured approximately 8,000 feet of Arbuckle limestone in the Arbuckle Mountains, but in southeastern Kansas it is ordinarily about 1,000 feet thick, and on the Barton arch it does not exceed 300 feet. At El Dorado, on the Granite ridge, it ranges...

... for the permission to publish the maps included with this discussion. Conditions such as those present in the Sallyards field could be produced by the following factors. (1) There was a sea, probably of Pennsylvanian age which has as its west boundary the granite ridge of central Kansas and as its east boundary...

...-wave sonic ( V P and V S ) and penetrated the top Arbuckle. Well F reached the Precambrian granite, and the remaining wells penetrated the Mississippi Lime. Wells G-J have cores with characteristic red staining in G and H. Wells I and J have XRF. Table 1. Available...

.... —Generalized structure section across southern South Dakota along line AAˊ shown in Figure 1 . This region is an area of approximately 140,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south by the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma and the Amarillo buried ridge in the Texas Panhandle; on the west...

.... Examples of buried hills are abundant in southeastern Kansas where ridges and hills of “Mississippi lime” formed islands in the Pennsylvanian sea during Cherokee time and sands which are called Bartlesville were deposited on their flanks and in the channels between them. 4 Foreign examples...

...Raymond C. Moore ABSTRACT Several deep wells west of the granite ridge in east-central Kansas have penetrated red beds and a thick chert zone near the base of the Pennsylvanian section. Study of the materials indicates that the chert, red clay, and other débris are derived from deeply weathered...

... of the many granitic islands which had existed in the epeiric sea began to subside and were covered in part by Ordovician strata. One of these is the north-south trending granite ridge which has been called the Nemaha Mountains, and the other is the east-west trending granite ridge in southern Oklahoma...

.... The Burbank sand is separated from the “Mississippi lime” below by 40–70 feet of blue Cherokee shales. The “Mississippi lime” here is a series of hard, semicrystalline, blue limestone beds, divided by more shaly or chalky, softer members. The total thickness is 320 feet. Beneath this is 130 feet of black...

... no geological departments, no reliable records or complete set of sand samples were kept. Since that time any production found in the same general position with reference to the “Mississippi lime” is referred to as the Turkey Mountain “sand.” The “Turkey Mountain lime” was laid down in late Arbuckle...