A critical examination of shore-line processes and shore-line development, when applied to conditions in the Golden Lanes of Greenwood County, Kansas, shows that the shore-line theory of origin of the sands is not applicable to conditions as revealed by the drill. The narrow sand bodies, the absence of a cliff or cliff-forming element, the irregular bottom of the sands, the complex cross-sections of the sands, the meandering of the trends, and branching of the trends cannot be accounted for by shore-line processes.

The evidence points to streams working over a valley-flat environment as the origin of the sand deposits of the Golden Lanes.

Structural geology, because it lacks consistency or trueness to form, is of no value as an index to the location of the trends, or to points where production may be found in the trends.

The present trends are but a part of a much greater system whose limits are yet to be found.