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Pine Mountain Thrust on US 23 Above & South of Jenkins, Kentucky / 230 Up Newman Mississippian Pound Ga Christopher Kendall 11/24/2004 Click on Galleries to return to SEPM Sequence Stratigraphy photo galleries or on SEPM Sequence Stratigraphy for Strata home page. |
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230 Close up of Little Lime tempestites close to marker 85 of the measured section published by the Geological Survey of Kentucky's 1998 for the Field Trip they conducted. These are interpreted as storm dominated carbonates with wave and current scour at their base, containing gravels of bioclastic debris in a micritic to shaley matrix at the base of the Mississippian Little Lime of the Upper Newman at Pound Gap.