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Bulletin 222: Karst-Derived Early Pennsylvanian Conglomerate in Ness County, Kansas
This Bulletin reports on basic research in the field of micropaleontology, the study of the microscopic fossils found in rocks. By studying these tiny fossils, much information can be obtained about the present characteristics of their host rocks and about the conditions under which those rocks were formed. Various fossils were studied to determine the age and to interpret the succession of events in the formation of host rocks. These events can be compared with those that took place in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the southwestern United States during about the same time and involving the same rock units. For this report, the rocks in a continuous core from the Mid-Continent No. 1 J. G. Collins borehole, Ness County, Kansas, were studied to determine their age and other characteristics. It is important to study this rock horizon as it may contain lead, zinc, and silver ores or be a stratigraphic trap for petroleum and natural gas.
