State | Kentucky |
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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 |
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 > Shale (Carbonaceous)lithologies 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 > 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 > 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 > 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.
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Comments | along and south of Pine Mountain; collectively the thickness ranges from about 270- 830 m |
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. |
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Counties | Bell - Harlan - Letcher - Pike - Whitley |