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Geologic units in Green county, Kentucky

Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 6 % of this area
Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided
Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); shale; sandstone
Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 28 % of this area
Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided
Lithology: limestone; fine-grained mixed clastic; dolostone (dolomite)
Limestone bodies in the Fort Payne Formation (Mississippian) at surface, covers 16 % of this area
Limestone bodies in the Fort Payne Formation; including Cane Valley Limestone Member
Lithology: limestone
Alluvium (Pleistocene to Holocene) at surface, covers 5 % of this area
Alluvium; includes glacial deposits along the Ohio River and its tributaries west of Cannelton locks
Lithology: sand; silt; glacial drift
Rocks of Chesterian age, lower part (Upper Mississippian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area
Rocks of Chesterian age, lower part
Lithology: limestone; sandstone; siltstone; shale
Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 46 % of this area
Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided; includes Salem Limestone west of Christian County
Lithology: limestone; dolostone (dolomite); chert; sandstone

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