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Water Well And Spring Map Of The Williamson 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Williamson 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Elizabethtown 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Elizabethtown 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Scott County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger Jan 2003

Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Scott County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger

Map and Chart--KGS

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supersede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.


Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Edmonson County, Kentucky, E. Glynn Beck, David A. Williams, Daniel I. Carey Jan 2003

Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Edmonson County, Kentucky, E. Glynn Beck, David A. Williams, Daniel I. Carey

Map and Chart--KGS

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site to site basis. At any site, it is important to understand both the soils and the underlying rock.


Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Jessamine County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger, Paul Howell Jan 2003

Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Jessamine County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger, Paul Howell

Map and Chart--KGS

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site to site basis. At any site, it is important to understand both the soils, and the underlying rock.


Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Woodford County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger, Paul Howell Jan 2003

Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Woodford County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey, Martin C. Noger, Paul Howell

Map and Chart--KGS

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site to site basis. At any site, it is important to understand both the soils, and the underlying rock.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Pikeville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Pikeville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Tompkinsville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Tompkinsville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Murray 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Murray 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Hopkinsville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Hopkinsville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Madisonville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Madisonville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Geologic Maps And Geologic Issues In Kentucky: A Citizen's Guide, Carol Ruthven, John D. Kiefer, Stephen F. Greb, William M. Andrews Jr. Jan 2003

Geologic Maps And Geologic Issues In Kentucky: A Citizen's Guide, Carol Ruthven, John D. Kiefer, Stephen F. Greb, William M. Andrews Jr.

Special Publication--KGS

Citizens in all walks of life benefit from the information on geologic maps. Geologic maps are used to:

  • Identify areas prone to natural hazards, such as landslides, erosion, sinkholes, and flooding
  • Select locations that are suitable for tunnels, bridges, dams, and quarries
  • Identify suitable sites for safe construction of homes and commercial buildings
  • Select safe places for building septic systems and landfills to minimize the risk of polluting soils and groundwater
  • Help farmers, landowners, and government officials locate groundwater resources and protect water quality
  • Help citizens understand geologic features (such as faults, mineral deposits, and impact structures) in the landscape …


Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Butler County, Kentucky, E. Glynn Beck, David A. Williams, Daniel I. Carey Jan 2003

Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Butler County, Kentucky, E. Glynn Beck, David A. Williams, Daniel I. Carey

Map and Chart--KGS

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site to site basis.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Tell City 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2003

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Tell City 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Mapped Karst Groundwater Basins In The Harrodsburg 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, James C. Currens, Randall L. Paylor, Joseph A. Ray Jan 2003

Mapped Karst Groundwater Basins In The Harrodsburg 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, James C. Currens, Randall L. Paylor, Joseph A. Ray

Map and Chart--KGS

This map shows karst groundwater basins in the Harrodsburg quadrangle, determined primarily by groundwater tracer studies. It can be used to quickly identify the groundwater basins and springs to which a site may drain. Major springs and the relative size of their basin or catchment areas can be evaluated for potential as water supplies. The map also serves as a geographic index to literature on karst groundwater in the area.


Controls On Middle To Late Ordovician Synorogenic Deposition In The Southeastern Corner Of Laurentia, German Bayona Jan 2003

Controls On Middle To Late Ordovician Synorogenic Deposition In The Southeastern Corner Of Laurentia, German Bayona

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in the southernmost Appalachians document initial collision along the southeastern margin of Laurentia during the Blountian orogeny, an early phase of the Taconic orogeny. Coeval drowning and exposure of different parts of the former platform and variations in stratal architecture have been attributed to tectonic and depositional loading along the collisional margin. Stratigraphic correlations, using a bentonite-graptoliteconodont time framework, a palinspastic map, and a map of subsurface basement structures, suggest that basement-fault reactivation, flexural subsidence, and eustasy variously controlled uplift, subsidence, and deposition at different sites within the peripheral foreland basin. This dissertation documents how …


A Mechanical System For Soil Reconstruction, John Patrick Fulton, Larry G. Wells, Timothy D. Smith Sep 2002

A Mechanical System For Soil Reconstruction, John Patrick Fulton, Larry G. Wells, Timothy D. Smith

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

One of the most perplexing problems associated with reclaiming surface–mined lands is excessive compaction of soil due to the heavy earthmoving equipment used during the reclamation process. Over the years, some innovative material handling schemes have been devised to limit vehicle traffic during reclamation on reconstructed soil. However, final grading operations can often create root–limiting bulk densities, which affect plant growth and yield. The purpose of this article is to describe a mechanism designed at the University of Kentucky whereby mine soil can be reconstructed without introducing compaction caused by surface traffic in order for the soil to sustain desirable …


A Portable Rainfall Simulator For Plot–Scale Runoff Studies, J. Byron Humphry, Tommy C. Daniel, Dwayne R. Edwards, Andrew N. Sharpley Mar 2002

A Portable Rainfall Simulator For Plot–Scale Runoff Studies, J. Byron Humphry, Tommy C. Daniel, Dwayne R. Edwards, Andrew N. Sharpley

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Rainfall simulators have a long history of successful use in both laboratory and field investigations. Many plot–scale simulators, however, have been difficult to operate and transport in the field, especially in remote locations where water or electricity is unavailable. This article describes a new rainfall simulator that is relatively easy to operate and transport to and from the field while maintaining critical intensity, distribution, and energy characteristics of natural rainfall. The simulator frame is constructed from lightweight aluminum pipe with a single 50 WSQ nozzle centered at a height of 3 m (9.8 ft). An operating nozzle pressure of 28 …


Package Options For Alfalfa, Michael Collins Feb 2002

Package Options For Alfalfa, Michael Collins

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

Most of the hay crop in Kentucky is harvested as dry hay and stored in round bales of various sizes for feeding on the farm. Most of the round-baled hay in Kentucky is used on-farm in feeding beef and dairy cattle. When alfalfa hay in round bales is left outside without protection from the weather, large losses in DM yield and in forage quality usually result. We routinely measure DM losses in the range of 20- 35% for a normal length hay storage season. Our research has shown that several economical storage options exist for protecting this hay from weathering. …


Marketing Kentucky Hay, Billy Ray Smith Feb 2002

Marketing Kentucky Hay, Billy Ray Smith

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

The production of hay and pasture crops is essential to a profitable future for Kentucky agriculture. The Commonwealth ranked seventh in the nation in hay production in the year 2000 with 6.2 million tons. These forages provide the bulk of the feed supply for our livestock industry. In addition, a significant portion of our hay crop is marketed, both to in-state and out-of-state buyers.


Innovative Loading And Stacking Systems For Custom Hay Sales, Tom Keene Feb 2002

Innovative Loading And Stacking Systems For Custom Hay Sales, Tom Keene

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

As the face of agriculture continues to change, so does the hay industry. What was standard operating procedure twenty years ago is now no longer economically feasible in the cash hay industry. This is especially true in the loading and stacking end of the business.

The business has changed because new technology along with the dramatic decrease in the availability of "hand labor" has helped to drive the need for new loading and stacking systems for the hay industry. These two phenomenon will continue to drive us toward total mechanization in the hay industry in fact many hay producers are …


Designing A Grazing System For Alfalfa, Ken Johnson Feb 2002

Designing A Grazing System For Alfalfa, Ken Johnson

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

As we think about grazing alfalfa, we should decide why we are considering alfalfa and where it fits. I want to address some of these issues from my prospective as a grazer with several years experience and as an agriculture employee working with many grazers over the years. Alfalfa is the most productive, high quality grazing forage we can grow in Kentucky; we need to be using it more.


Grazing Alfalfa At The Western Kentucky University Farm, Byron Sleugh, Raquel Stiles, David K. Stiles, Amanda Canty, Curtis Mitchell Feb 2002

Grazing Alfalfa At The Western Kentucky University Farm, Byron Sleugh, Raquel Stiles, David K. Stiles, Amanda Canty, Curtis Mitchell

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

Alfalfa has been around for centuries. In all this time, it was used in many different ways to provide high quality forage to livestock. In fact, in the area where alfalfa originated, the word actually means "horse power". We have come a long way since then and alfalfa is used for a wide range of animals, from rabbits to rhinos.

In order to maximize the efficiency of utilization of alfalfa, it has become necessary to graze it. Grazing is preferred over harvesting and storage for several reasons: less equipment and thus lower cost, less harvest loss, and greater quality forage …


Managing Alfalfa For Yield-Quality-Persistence, Garry D. Lacefield Feb 2002

Managing Alfalfa For Yield-Quality-Persistence, Garry D. Lacefield

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

Alfalfa is a premier forage legume that has played an important role in Kentucky's forage-livestock program for many years. It's role at present is increasing and it's most significant role is yet to come.


Advances In Alfalfa Breeding — What Will The Alfalfa Variety Of The Future Smell, Taste, Look And Act Like?, Jimmy C. Henning Feb 2002

Advances In Alfalfa Breeding — What Will The Alfalfa Variety Of The Future Smell, Taste, Look And Act Like?, Jimmy C. Henning

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

Alfalfa is the highest quality, highest yielding and arguably the highest value forage crop in Kentucky and in the US. It is useful as hay, haylage or pasture for a variety of species of livestock. It is well adapted to Kentucky and is an important part of the forage/livestock system.

Alfalfa breeders are actively working to develop varieties that will meet and exceed farmer expectations for yield and persistence. In addition, other traits are sought after to make the variety meet a special need or to have better marketability or attraction to the customer.

So what will the alfalfa of …


Foreword [2002], Garry D. Lacefield Feb 2002

Foreword [2002], Garry D. Lacefield

Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference

This is the front matter of the proceedings.


Groundwater Quality In Kentucky: Ph, R. Stephen Fisher Jan 2002

Groundwater Quality In Kentucky: Ph, R. Stephen Fisher

Information Circular--KGS

The parameter pH (the negative base-10 logarithm of hydrogen ion activity, measured in moles per liter) indicates whether a substance will behave as an acid or base. It is one of the most important parameters that describe groundwater quality, because pH largely controls the amount and chemical form of many organic and inorganic solutes in groundwater.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Bowling Green 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2002

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Bowling Green 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Somerset 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2002

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Somerset 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.


Water Well And Spring Map Of The Evansville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson Jan 2002

Water Well And Spring Map Of The Evansville 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Kentucky, Bart Davidson

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.