Potato Hill Syncline (Discarded)

Location

Southern part of T10S, R7E, Saline County

References

Butts 1917, 1925, S. Weller et al. 1920, Cady 1926

Description

Early geologists mapped a syncline west of and roughly parallel with the Horton Hill Anticline in northeastern Pope and southeastern Saline Counties. Detailed mapping of the same area by Baxter et al. (1967) and Nelson and Lumm (1987) indicates that the structure is better characterized as a graben. Use of the name Potato Hill Syncline should be discontinued.