Roadcut exposures along I 64 just east of Morehead, Kentucky.
Borden Formation - Mississippian - Shelf characterized by downslope fans & shales, passing upsection to nearshore deltaics and shoreface.
Shelf largely below wave base

Stops 3 - 7: Kentucky, Interstate 64 just east of the Morehead exit

Facies: Mixed clastic fans, prodelta, tidal channel carbonates and ooid shoals and orthquartzite barriers.
Ages: Mississippian Pennsylvanian boundary represented by the Borden, Lee and Newman Fomations.

Unless indicated otherwise the images on this page were photographed by Christopher Kendall with a digital Coolpix camera.

01 Borden Fan I 64	02 Borden Fan I 64	03 Borden Fan I 64	04 Borden Fan I 64	05 Borden Fan I 64
06 Borden Fan I 64	07 Borden Fan I 64	08 Borden Fan I 64	09 Borden Fan I 64	10 Borden Fan I 64
11 Borden Fan I 64	12 Borden Fan I 64	13 Borden Fan I 64	14 Borden Fan I 64	15 Borden Fan I 64
16 Borden Fan I 64	17 Borden Fan I 64	18 Borden Fan I 64	19 Borden Fan I 64	20 Borden Fan I 64
21 Borden Fan I 64	22 Borden Fan I 64	23 Borden Fan I 64	24 Borden Fan I 64	25 Borden Fan I 64
26 Borden Fan I 64	27 Borden Fan I 64	28 Borden Fan I 64	29 Borden Pro Delta I 64	30 Borden Pro Delta I 64
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31 Borden Pro Delta I 64	33 Borden Pro Delta I 64	34 Borden Pro Delta I 64	35 Borden Pro Delta I 64