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Geologic units in Casey county, Kentucky

Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 18 % of this area

Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided

Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); shale; sandstone

Ashlock Formation, Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, and Fairview Formation, undivided (Ordovician) at surface, covers 1.0 % of this area

Ashlock Formation, Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, and Fairview Formation, undivided

Lithology: limestone; shale; siltstone

Pennington Formation (Paragon Formation), Bangor Limestone, Hartselle Formation, and Kidder Limestone Member of Monteagle Limestone, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Pennington Formation (Paragon Formation), Bangor Limestone, Hartselle Formation, and Kidder Limestone Member of Monteagle Limestone, undivided

Lithology: limestone; shale; sandstone

Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 19 % of this area

Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided

Lithology: limestone; fine-grained mixed clastic; dolostone (dolomite)

New Albany, Chattanooga, and Ohio Shales, Boyle Dolomite (Limestone), and Sellersburg Limestone, undivided (Devonian to Mississippian) at surface, covers 11 % of this area

New Albany, Chattanooga, and Ohio Shales, Boyle Dolomite (Limestone), and Sellersburg Limestone, undivided

Lithology: black shale; dolostone (dolomite); limestone

Drakes Formation (Ordovician) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Drakes Formation

Lithology: dolostone (dolomite); shale; limestone

Drakes Formation and Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, undivided (Ordovician) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

Drakes Formation and Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, undivided; in Boyle, Casey, and Marion Counties

Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); shale

Cumberland Formation and Leipers and Catheys (?) Limestones, undivided (Ordovician) at surface, covers 0.1 % of this area

Cumberland Formation and Leipers and Catheys (?) Limestones, undivided; in southernmost Kentucky

Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); shale

Wildie, Nada, Halls Gap, Holtsclaw Siltstone, Cowbell, Nancy, Kenwood Siltstone, New Providence Shale, Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, undivided; Borden Formation locally includes Renfro Member in eastern Kentucky (Devonian to Mississippian) at surface, covers 42 % of this area

Wildie, Nada, Halls Gap, Holtsclaw Siltstone, Cowbell, Nancy, Kenwood Siltstone, New Providence Shale, Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, undivided; Borden Formation locally includes Renfro Member in eastern Kentucky

Lithology: shale; siltstone; sandstone

Alluvium (Pleistocene to Holocene) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

Alluvium; includes glacial deposits along the Ohio River and its tributaries west of Cannelton locks

Lithology: sand; silt; glacial drift

Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided; includes Salem Limestone west of Christian County

Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); chert; sandstone