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| State | Kentucky |
|---|---|
| Name | Pennington Formation, Newman Limestone, Fort Payne Chert, Grainger Formation, Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, undivided; Pennington Formation locally includes sandstone tongue of Lee Formation |
| Geologic age | Devonian to Pennsylvanian |
| Original map label | PADpg |
| Comments | along and south of Pine Mountain; collectively the thickness ranges from about 270- 830 m |
| Primary rock type | limestone |
| Secondary rock type | sandstone |
| Other rock types | siltstone; shale; conglomerate; chert; dolostone (dolomite); black shale |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestonelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shalelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstonelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstonelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Incidental
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomeratelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Sedimentary > Chemical > Chertlithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Black-shalelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostonelithologies and lithology percentages estimated from stratigraphic column on paper source map; collectively these units are about 35% limestone, 20% siltstone, 30% sandstone, 15% shale (some carbonaceous), and incidental chert, dolostone (dolomite), conglomerate. |
| Map references | Noger, M.C., compiler, 1988, Geologic map of Kentucky: sesquicenntennial edition of the Kentucky Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey and the Kentucky Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000. |
| Unit references | Noger, M.C., compiler, 1988, Geologic map of Kentucky: sesquicenntennial edition of the Kentucky Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey and the Kentucky Geological Survey, scale 1:500,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Bell - Harlan - Letcher - Pike - Whitley |
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