Pound Gap Devonian through Pennsylvanian, Pine Mountain Thrust on US 23
Above & South of Jenkins, Kentucky / 205 Newman Limestone Mississippian
Christopher Kendall
11/24/2004

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205-Newman-Limestone-Mississppian-PG

205 Interbedded intraclastic packstone and mudstone fabric rich in bioclasts including the cross sections of plates of crustose byozoan that resemble the carapaces of giant coarse trilobites (prominent white shepherds crooks in cross section) of the Lower Mississippian Newman Limestone Formation. These sediments probably accumulated where storm wave erosion occurred just seaward of the shoreface, with waves driving local transport of this sediments across this shelf surface and causing the local irregular eroded character of the bedding planes. This is unit 101 of the measured Geological Section, Kentucky Geological Survey Field Trip Guide, 1998.