For Sale : Kansas State geology publications

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State Geological Survey of Kansas : Bulletins (Bulletin of the University of Kansas)
* * * Please note : Some bulletins are available individually AND as part of a bound set.
Individual bulletins are listed after sets in numerical order.
9x6" (10x7" #161-200, 11x8.5" after that). Illustrated. Titles written on some spines.
Some are printed on two qualities of paper that have darkened at two separate rates with age.
A few are also numbered in the Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin series (EEKansas Bulletin #)

Kansas Bulletin 1 : 1913 : Special report on the well waters in Kansas.110p. 10.5x7.5" Great fold-outs incl. color map. (Paper is good, with bumped corners, but front cover is poor - detached and tattered around the edges). $12

Kansas Bulletin 17 : 1930 : Fauna of the Drum Limestone of Kansas and Western Missouri by Albert Nelson Sayre. 203p., 21 plates. (original paper tape over spine is chipped, otherwise VG). $14

Kansas Bulletin 50 : 1943 : Ground water in the oil-field areas of Ellis and Russell counties, KS. 104p. Photos. Map in pocket. (cover faintly soiled/sunned). $4

Kansas Bulletin 60 Part 2 : 1945 : Pennsylvanian rocks and fusulinids of East Utah and northwest Colorado correlated with Kansas section. 67p. (pages 17-84, 6 plates, 11 figures. $1

Kansas Bulletin 67 : 1947 : Kansas Clay, Dakota formation. 241p., photos, plates in pocket. (front cover soiled). $6

Kansas Bulletin 81 : 1949 : Geology and ground water resources of Norton county and NW Phillips county, Kansas. 144p. Plates in pocket. (corners lightly bumped) $12

Kansas Bulletin 82 Part 1 : Chemical and petrographic studies of the Fort Hays chalk in Kansas. 36p. (back cover rumpled, with library pocket) $2

Kansas Bulletin 82 Part 2 : Preliminary report on phosphate bearing shales in eastern Kansas. 10p. $1

Kansas Bulletin 86 Part 6 : 1950 : Subsurface reconnaissance of glacial deposits in northeastern Kansas. By John C. Frye and K. L. Walters. pages 141-158, 2 plates (1 in pocket), 1 table. $1

Kansas Bulletin 90 Part 5 : 1951 : Some high-calcium limestones in Kansas. By Russell T. Runnels. Pages 81-104, 3 figures, 10 tables. SCARCE. $10

Kansas Bulletin 109 Part 5 : 1954 : Thickness maps as criteria of regional structural movement. By Wallace Lee. Pages 65-80, 10 figures. (bumped corner) $5

Kansas Bulletin 114 Part 1 : 1955 : Evaluation of acid etching of limestone. 48p. (spot on cover). $3

Kansas Bulletin 114 Part 5 : 1955 : Fossil Jellyfishes from Kansas Pennsylvanian rocks and elsewhere. By H. J. Harrington and R. C. Moore. Pages 155-163, 2 plates. $5

Kansas Bulletin 117 : 1956 : Geology and ground water resources of Rawlins county, Kansas. 100p. Plate in pocket. $6

Kansas Bulletin 118 : 1956 : Stratigraphy of the Ogallala formation (Neogene) of northern Kansas. 92p. 9 plates (1 in pocket), 5 figures. $5

Kansas Bulletin 119 Part 3 : 1956 : Chemical composition of eastern Kansas limestones. 22p. Plates in pocket. (bumped edges, library pocket). $1

Kansas Bulletin 119 Part 5 : Barber county earthquake of January 6, 1956. 10p. (bumped edges). $2

Kansas Bulletin 124 : 1957 : Depositional environment of the Wreford megacyclothem (lower Permian) of Kansas. 154p. 22 plates (3 in pocket), 6 figures, 2 tables. $12

Kansas Bulletin 127 Part 3 : 1957 : Precambrian rocks of Kansas. By O. C. Farquhar. 73p., 9 plates (1 in pocket), 4 figures. (bumped edges) $5

Kansas Bulletin 130 Part 3 : 1958 : Environment of deposition of the Grenola Limestone (Lower Permian) in southern Kansas. Pages 117-164, 6 plates, 5 figures, 9 tables. $7

Kansas Bulletin 133 : 1958 : Oil and gas developements in Kansas during 1957. By E. D. Goebel, P. L. Hilpman, A. L. Hornbaker, and D. L. Beene. 264p., 3 plates in pocket, 3 figures, 61 tables (1 in pocket). There are a total of 4 items in pocket. (spine ends chipped) $3

Kansas Bulletin 142 Part 2 : 1960 : Kansas building stone. By Hubert E. Risser. Pages 53-122, 13 plates, 3 figures, 4 tables. (spine ends chipped) $1

Kansas Bulletin 147 : 1960 : Oil and gas developments in Kansas during 1959. By E. D. Goebel, P. L. Filpman, D. L. Beene, and R. J. Noever. 254p. , 3 plates in pocket, 12 figures, 32 tables. (Generally VG, spine ends a bit rough, title written on spine) $16

Kansas Bulletin 148 : 1960 : Geology and ground water resources of Douglas county, Kansas. 200p. Plates in pocket. (noticeably bumped corner, spine ends rough). $11

Kansas Bulletin 153 : 1961 : Ground water levels in observation wells in Kansas, 1960. 183p. (bumped corner, lower spine end rough). $4

Kansas Bulletin 156 : 1962 : Stratigraphy of the Carlile shale (Upper Cretaceous) in Kansas. 155p. 27 plates (1 in pocket), 2 figures, 2 tables in pocket. (on two sides of same sheet) Thus, there are 2 items in the pocket. (minor smudge on cover, upper edge bumped) $5

Kansas Bulletin 159 : 1962 : Ground water levels in observation wells in Kansas, 1961. 166p. (bumped corners). $4

Kansas Bulletin 162 : 1963 : Geologic history of Kansas. By Daniel F. Merriam. 317p. , 29 plates, 147 figures, 7 tables. $5

Kansas Bulletin 163 : 1963 : Geology of Franklin county, Kansas. 57p. 12 plates (2 in pocket), 9 figures. $5

Kansas Bulletin 164 : 1963 : Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the Red Eagle cyclothem (Lower Permian) in Kansas. 114p. 7 plates, 23 figures, 7 tables. $4

Kansas Bulletin 189 : 1968 : The Stratigraphic succession in Kansas. Edited by Doris E. Zeller. 81p. 1 plate in pocket, 13 figures, 3 tables. $5

Kansas Bulletin 197 : 1969 : Depositional facies of Toronto limestone member (Oread limestone, Pennsylvanian), subsurface marker unit in Kansas. By Arthur R. Troell. 29p. 13 figures, 2 tables. $10

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State Geological Survey of Kansas : Guidebooks. 11x8.5”
Guidebooks without numbers are at the bottom of the list

Kansas Guidebook 1 – 24th annual meeting, Midwestern Friends of the Pleistocene, Stratigraphy and faunal sequence – Meade county, Kansas. May 22-23, 1976. 85p., illus.(cover mildly rubbed) $6

Kansas Guidebook (no #) : 1965 : Pennsylvanian Marine banks in southeastern Kansas. By John W. Harbaugh, Daniel F. Berriam, John L. Wray, and Theodore E. Jacques. This is a field conference guidebook for the Annual meetings of the Geological Society of America and Associated Societies, held in Kansas City, Missouri, 1965. 11x8.5”, softcover, 54p., illus., road trip stop descriptons. VG $18

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State Geological Survey of Kansas : Mineral Resources Circulars Approx. 9x6"
* * A bound set of #1-13 is listed below the individual circulars.KS MRC 6 : 1937 : Mineral resources of Kansas counties. 110p. Illus. (spine label). $4

Kansas Mineral Resources Circular 7 : 1937 : Geology of Rawlins and Decatur counties, with special reference to water resources. 25p. Illus. Fold-out maps. (filing marks). $6

Kansas Mineral Resources Circular 8 : 1937 : Rock wool resources of Kansas. 28p. Illus. $3

Kansas Mineral Resources Circular 9 : 1938 : Water supplies from wells available for irrigation in the uplands of Ford county, Kansas. 10p. (filing marks) $2

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State Geological Survey of Kansas : Oil and Gas Investigations
10x8" (corners bumped on all) * * See also Misc. pubs for more oil and gas.
Some of these are a map or plate only, some have text. See sentence after title for description.

Kansas Oil and Gas Investigations 6 : 1948 : Subsurface geologic cross section from Baca county to Yuma county, Colorado. Large folded plate with multiple finely printed geologic cross sections. $9

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State Geological Survey of Kansas : Special Distribution Publications 11x8.5"

Kansas Special Distribution Publication 27 : 1966 : Application of factor analysis to a Facies Study of the Leavenworth Limestone (Pennsylvanian-Virgilian) of Kansas and Environs. 28p. (corners bumped) $2

Kansas Special Distribution Publication 60 : 1972 : Supplemental areas for storage of radioactive wastes in Kansas. 20p. Multiple folded plates in pocket. (cover noticeably rubbed, corners bumped). $9

Kansas Energy Resources Series 2 : 1973 : 1972 Oil and gas production in Kansas. Same as above, but series title now "Energy Resources Series." 149p. (cover soiled, lower spine end rough) $2

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University of Kansas : Engineering Bulletins 9x6" Illustrated. Titles written on some spines.

University of Kansas : Engineering Bulletin 20 : 1936 : Notes on the hydrology of Kansas. 149p., multiple fold-outs incl. maps. (upper spine end bumped, owner's name, cover faintly soiled) $12

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions illustrated, softcover.
Includes Articles (first), Monographs (second), and Papers (third).

ARTICLES : 11x8.5"
University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 4: Thompson, M. L. 1948. Studies of American fusilinids, Protozoa 1, 184 p., 7 fig., 38 pl. . (spine covering rough, corners bumped, one sentence underlined). $25

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 12: Fay, R. O. 1952. Catalogue of conodonts, Vertebrata 3, 206 p., 109 fig. This large publication brings together the current knowledge of conodont occurrences and species - a valuable resource for the researcher! (edge of page block faintly soiled, spine ends a bit rough) $15

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 13: Galbreath, E. C. 1953. A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado, Vertebrata 4, 120 p., 2 pl., 26 fig. $15

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 14: Thompson, M. L. 1954. American Wolfcampian fusulinids, Protozoa 5, 126 p., 52 pl., 14 fig. (lower spine end rough) $18

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 51: Bukry, D. 1969. Upper Cretaceous coccoliths from Texas and Europe, Protista 2, 116 p., 40 pl., 1 fig. $10

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Article 59: von Bitter, P. H. 1972. Environmental control of conodont distribution in the Shawnee Group (Upper Pennsylvanian) of eastern Kansas, 124 p., 16 pl., 18 fig. . (minor pencil marks) $15

MONOGRAPHS : 11x8.5”
None in stock now.

PAPERS: 9x6"
University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Paper 3 : 1966 : Upper Devonian and Lower Mississippian conodont zones in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota by Gilbert Klapper. 43p., 6 plates (minor pencil marks) $7

University of Kansas : Paleontological Contributions : Paper 49 : 1970 : Permian and Triassic conodonts from a section at Suryul ravine, Vihi district, Kashmir by W.C. Sweet. 10p., 1 plate. $3

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University of Kansas : Special Publications illustrated

University of Kansas : Special Publication 2 : 1967 : Essays in Paleontology Stratigraphy : R. C. Moore Commemorative Volume. Edited by Curt Teichert and Ellis L. Yochelson. HARDBACK, dust jacket, 10x7”, 626p., illus. (VG. Owner's stamps - small. Edges of dust jacket have minor chips). $20

Contents of Essays in Paleontology Stratigraphy :
Tributes to Raymond Cecil Moore and a list of his publications.
Some uses of fossil names in the evolution of stratigraphic nomenclature in the Midcontinent.
Towards an international code of stratigraphic nomenclaure.
Fossil systematics.
Numerical taxonomy in invertebrate paleontology.
Arenaceous foraminifera as a key to Upper Devonian – Lower Mississippian relationships in the Type Mississippian area.
American Fusulinacean faunas containing elements from other continents.
A numerical taxonomic study of the Chonetacean Brachiopods.
Quo Vadis, Bellerophon?
Major features of Cephalopod evolution.
Muscle-scar patterns of Pleistocene (Kansan) Ostracodes.
Evolution of the Blastoidea.
Lagomorph history and the stratigraphic record.
Ocean tides as a geologic process.
Paraconformities.
Computer simulation as an experimental tool in geology and aleontology.
Stratigraphy and sedimentation in the Beaufort series (Permian – Triassic), South Africa.
Buried soils, fossil mollusks, and Late Cenozoic paleoenvironments.
Stratigraphy and biochemical paleontology of Rossburg peat (Recent), north-central Minnesota.
Zonation and correlation of the subsurface Hunton group (Silurian-Devonian) in Kansas by Foraminifera and acid residues.
Mississippian – Pennsylvanian boundary in southern Nevada.
Comparison of cyclic rock sequences using cross-association.
Ostracodes from the Type Berriasian (Cretaceous) of Berrias (Ardeche, France) and their significance.
Stratigraphic and paleoecologic significance of macroinvertebrate fossils in the Dakota Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas.
Fossil mammals in Tertiary correlations.

Kansas State Geology : Misc. Publications ~9x6" unless otherwise noted, some are offprints.

1951 Field Conference, Lyon County, Kansas. 1951 Kansas Geological Society. 11x8.5", 23 pages, illus, road log from Madison, Kansas. An opportunity to study interesting lithologies and their stratigraphic relationships in the sediments of the Wabaunsee (Virgilian) and Council Grove (Wolfcampian) groups.

Choose your copy of 1951 Field Conference:
Very good, - $8,
Fair (lots of pencil notes, some soil) - $4

Bibliography and Index of Transactions : Kansas Academy of Science. Vol. 1-65 (1872-1962). by Walter H. Schoewe. Hardback, 9x6", 259p. (Some library stamps, library number on spine, lightly bumped corners.) $10

Chemical quality of irrigation waters in Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, and northern Gray counties. 1976. Chemical Quality Series 4, KGS. 11x8.5" 33p. Illus. $3

Compass : Journal of Earth Sciences, Sigma Gamma Epsilson. Vol. 72 #4, 1996. This is a special issue pertaining to the history of the University of Kansas - Alpha chapter (honorary society for earth science students) and well as history of the Department of Geology, the Kansas Geological Society, the Isotope geochemistry lab., and more. 9.5x7", 35p. Illus. (bumped edge) $4

Eleventh (11th) Annual field Conference : Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma. 1937 Kansas Geological Society. 11x8.5", 108p., illus. Road logs and related papers. (Fair : Most of this guidebook is in very good condition, but the cover is poor (darkened, repaired, some water marking) and some of the pages and the folded section plate are water marked at the bottom - nothing stuck or rippled.) $12

Environmental interpretation of Conodont distribution in Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) megacyclothems in eastern Kansas by Philip Heckel and John Baesemann. 1975. Extracted from AAPG Bulletin Vol. 59(3). 9x6", 25p., illus. $3

Field Conference . . . 1959 Kansas Geological Society. by Raymond C. Moore and Daniel F. Merriam. 12x9", 52p., very nice illus, comb-bound. Road log Lawrence to Lindsborg, and related pieces. (Good : all is very good, except upper edge has been noticably bumped and faded where it stuck out above the typical 11x8.5" items) $14

Geoeconomics of the Pennsylvanian marine banks in southeast Kansas. 1962 Kansas Geological Society Guidebook for the 27th field conference held from Independence, Kansas September 13-14, 1962. 11x8.5”, softcover, comb bound, 160p., illus. Field conference leader was John W. Harbaugh. Includes 13 technical papers, column, maps of field trip areas, more. Specific mention is made of Lansing group, Coffeyville Formation, Hogshooter Formation, Paradox Basin (Four Corners area), Sacramento Mountains (New Mexico), Wilson county, Montgomery county, Washington county, Nowata county. $25

Geologic History of the crystalline rocks of Kansas. 1918. AAPG. 15p. $2

Geologic map of Kansas. 1964 State Geological Survey of Kansas. Scale 1:500,000. Full Color, single sheet. NOTE : The map legend has been neatly taped to the bottom of the map - perhaps it was on a separate sheet? (Generally Good, some pencil notes in legend, legend taped on, has a few extra flattened fold lines. Ready to pin up on your wall.) $10

Geology and Ground-water resources of Montgomery County, Southeastern Kansas. by Howard G. O'Connor. Ground Water Series #1. 1974. 11x8.5", 12p., Color geologic map in pocket. (Fair : Text a bit rumpled with moderate water marking along spine - nothing stuck. Map good, but mildly soiled and with minor pencil notes). $2

INQUA : Guidebook for Field conference D : Central Great Plains. 1965 International Association for Quaternary Research : 7th congress. 8x5.5", 125p., very nicely illustrated, multiple fold-outs. Covers parts of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota. $12

Kansas Ground water : Basic data release # 1 : Hydrogeologic data from Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, and Thomas counties, Kansas. 1969. 11x8.5", spiral bound, 113p. plate in pocket. (cover faintly soiled, corners lightly bumped). $10

Late Paleozoic Pelecypods : Mytilacea. By Norman D. Newell. 1942. University of Kansas Publications, State Geological Survey of Kansas, Volume 10, Part 2. 10x8”, 115p., 15 plates, 22 figures, 5 tables. (back cover has minor soil) $15

Mammals of the Rexroad formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas. 1950. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 9x6" Very nicely illustrated. 193p. Fold-out $23

Missouri river basin - conservation, control, and use of water resources including floodwaters. Hearings before the committee on irrigation and reclamation, House of Representatives, 78th congress, 2nd session, on H.R. 4795 - December 1, 1944. US government printing office. 43p. $4

Origin of phsphatic black shale facies in Pennsylvanian cyclothems of mid-continent North America by Philip Heckel. 1977. Extracted from AAPG bulletin vol. 61(7). 9x6", 24p., illus. (minor pencil marks) $3

Paleoecology of Nodulose zone at top of Haskell limestone (Upper Pennsylvanian) in Kansas by Halsey Miller and Ada Swineford. 1957. Extracted from AAPG Bulletin vol. 41(9). 9x6", 25p. $4

Research and activities of State Geological Survey of Kansas for Fiscal year ending July 1, 1958. 1959. Misc. Report. 9x6" 50p. Excellent vintage photos! (mark on spine from label) $4

River basin problems and proposed reservoir projects for a state plan of water resources development. 1944. Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Dec. 1944. 9x6", 62p. Multiple fold-outs, plate in pocket. (covers lightly soiled). $11

Type and figured specimens of Fossil Vertebrates in the Collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History : Part I - Fossil Fishes. by H.-P. Schultze, J.D. Stewart, A.M. Neuner, and R.W. Coldiron. 1982. This is Miscellaneous Publication 73, University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 10x6.5", 53p. (owner's name and minimal soil on cover) $11

Type and figured specimens of Fossil Vertebrates in the Collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History : Part IV - Fossil Mammals. by Gregg E. Ostrander, Assefa Mebrate, and Robert W. Wilson. 1986. This is Miscellaneous Publication 79, University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 10x6.5", 83p. (owner's name on cover) $19

Underground space : developing Kansas City's underground space (legal principles and problems, zoning and code changes, infrastructure planning, Seabrook tunnels, subway costs, and more). 1984. Vol. 8 #5-6.11x8.5", 100p., Illus. (bumped corners, rubbed cover). $5

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