Topeka Limestone, Kansas

Late Pennsylvanian (Shawnee Group, Virgilian Stage)

Google Earth street car perspectives that I edited and processed through photoshop. Two views of the same roadcut in Kansas that exposes a classic stratigraphic section of the upper Pennsylvanian Tokeka Limestone (Shawnee Group, Virgilian Stage).

Individual stratigraphic Members of the Topeka Limestone (youngest formation of the Shawnee Group, Virgilian Stage) exposed here include--from bottom to top of roadcut: Grayish patch at bottom is Iowa Point Shale; first brownish ledge is the Curzon Limestone; next recessive interval is the James Point Shale; second ledge is the Sheldon Limestone; above the Sheldon lies the Turner Creek Shale; third ledge from bottom is the Du Bois Limestone; next recessive interval is the Holt Shale; and capping the exposure, at the top, is the very top of the Shawnee Group, the Coal Creek Limestone.

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