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Remaining Resources Of The Herrin Coal, Gerald A. Weisenfluh
Remaining Resources Of The Herrin Coal, Gerald A. Weisenfluh
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The Herrin coal bed (W. Ky. No. 11) is one of the most important coal resources in the Illinois Basin. To 2009, the Herrin coal had an estimated 10 million tons of production in Kentucky, and remained the second largest producer in the Western Kentucky Coal Field. The Herrin is known for its regionally extensive "blue band" rock parting, and, in Kentucky, its close association with the overlying Providence Limestone Member and Paradise coal (W. Ky. No. 11) (see, for example, Greb and others, 1992). To fact, the Herrin and Paradise coal beds were so closely spaced in some areas …
Mapped Karst Groundwater Basins In The Somerset 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, James C. Currens, Randall L. Paylor, Joseph A. Ray, Robert J. Blair
Mapped Karst Groundwater Basins In The Somerset 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, James C. Currens, Randall L. Paylor, Joseph A. Ray, Robert J. Blair
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Geology Of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Matthew M. Crawford, Hanna Hunsberger
Geology Of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Matthew M. Crawford, Hanna Hunsberger
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is located in parts of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. The park was authorized by President Franklin Roosevelt on June 11, 1940, and is now the largest historical park in the National Park System. It contains 24,000 acres along Cumberland Mountain near Ewing, Va., proceeding southwest toward Fern Lake in Tennessee, a distance of approximately 20 miles. The average width of the park is only 1.6 miles.
The park hosts a distinctive range of geologic processes and features. Unique structural geology, caves and karst, surface and groundwater erosion, and mass wasting are just a few of …
Kentucky Landscapes Through Geologic Time, Daniel I. Carey
Kentucky Landscapes Through Geologic Time, Daniel I. Carey
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We now understand that the earth’s crust is broken up into a number of plates, some of continental size, and that these plates have been moving— centimeters a year—throughout geologic history, driven by the internal heat of the earth. This movement creates our mountain chains, earthquakes, geologic faults, and volcanoes. The theory of plate tectonics (from the Greek, tektonikos: pertaining to building) attempts to describe the process and helps explain the geology of Kentucky.
The geologic story of the rocks that form Kentucky’s landscape began a half billion years ago when the area was covered by water. Deposits of sand, …