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Stratigraphy And Deposystem Analysis Of Middle Pennsylvanian Strata (Breathitt Group/ Pottsville And Allegheny Formations) In The Vicinity Of Greenup, Kentucky And Ironton, Ohio, Terry Hamrick

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Twelve facies are described from 40 measured sections the Breathitt Group from Greenup, Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio. The project area is approximately 260 square mi 1 c-s covering strata from the Mississippian age Borden formation to Middle Pennsylvanian age Allegheny formation. Facies include: 1) conglomeratic channel lags, 2) small scale, cross stratified channel sandstones, 3) large scale, cross stratified, channel sandstones, 4) small scale, tabular sandstones, 5) small epsilon cross bedded sandstones, 6) large scale, dark gray, channel form shale deposits, 7) fossiliferous silty shales, 8) bioturbated shales, 9) heterolithic channel fills, 10) biomicrites, 11) black platy shales, and 12) …